So far, scientists have found that we’re trending toward the high end of those predictions. … “Presently, sea level is tracking in the intermediate-high to high, the two fastest,” said Randall Parkinson, a coastal geologist with Florida International University. “The other three scenarios, you might not even think about because we’re already rising faster than that.”
Gonna be real funny when that 6 ft by 2100 drops to 2050 and most of Florida become the climate migrants nobody wants.
My in-laws just bought a house near the coast in Southeast Florida. I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe they’re too old and stuck in their ways to believe that this will actually impact them? I don’t know, but I imagine it won’t be long before they can’t insure that house anymore.
Yea real funny. I hope when it’s coming for you somebody a little further north takes the same joy in your impending doom.
I believe the above poster was merely pointing out the irony of the situation, not saying that it’s actually humorous. Florida’s politics tend to villify refugees, while the residents themselves may soon become refugees fleeing to other states due to climate change.
There is a lot of people in this state that don’t agree with any of that. That want to do something to mitigate the damage of climate change and are absolutely powerless. Constantly joking about how we are going to get it the worst and we somehow deserve it is gross as fuck, and it’s constantly applauded on these forums. Floridians are people too and if you stopped assuming all of them are red hat rocking dickheads that deserve to be drowned in global catastrophe that would be cool ya know.
This is why I specified Florida politics lean that way, not the residents.
But they still deserve it right?
No one of sound mind would imply that a group of people deserve suffering. No one here is suggesting that.
I mean you aren’t, but the sentiment is all over this thread.
not all the gusanos wear red hats
I’m in Texas, not that far from the coast, and I make these kinds of jokes. I don’t move because this is where my immediate family live and I don’t want to leave without them. Texans are a great group to make the butt of the jokes. Doesn’t mean I think I should be drowned or assume I’m a red-hat maga person.
The state continues to elect dipshits like Desantis, despite the evidence being blazingly obvious they’ll be the first in the line of fire.
What happens next should surprise nobody, and if somebody is surprised they were almost definitely part of the problem and should stay in Florida, if you catch my drift.
No I don’t catch your drift, spell it out plainly for me.
If you continue to keep your eyes closed while walking, and everyone is screaming to tell you to stop… No one will be there to physically stop you from walking, you’re on your own journey. Either open your eyes and look around, or don’t be mad when you fall off the cliff.
What the fuck are you talking about? I’m one of the idiots trapped in Florida and can see it coming. It’s just shitty to see how people will treat you when devastation comes around. You know Florida is full of refugees that don’t get to vote right?
That took 2 comments of rage-bait bullshit for you to say that?
Like, at no point did you actually say you are a helpless victim in this.
It read like “I have and enjoy MY house on the beautiful coast. Why is everyone going to be so mean to me when the bill comes due?!”What the fuck are you talking about? I’m just saying joking about not taking in climate refugees because they are from a place you thinks deserves it is fucked.
What do you mean trapped?
I mean I can’t relocate? I’m not chained to a radiator but thanks.
I guess I’d take it as a warning, and start planning your departure soon.
You gonna help me pay for it?
It’s a common figure of speech. It doesn’t mean actually funny.
Sorry the conservative bigots who deny climate change and pretend the water isn’t rising are going to get wet.
There. That’s my sympathetic statement for them. But, no amount of warnings or even pleading with them can ever cause conservatives to do the right thing. The more we implore them to recognize the science, the more likely they are to drown just to upset us.
I, for one, support a conservative’s right to drown exactly as they insist. We should be supporting their decisions for once. Let them face the tides bravely. We should be cheering them on as they sink beneath the waves. 👏 Good job, y’all! Good job! 👏
As for the innocent non-conservatives, we should be rescuing them and getting them to normal states just to get them away from the conservatives. Leave the rest behind.
RIP to any freshwater animals living in florida.
it’s not an obstacle, it’s an opportunity! – Florida has a long and prestigious tradition of selling waterfront property …
Somehow I feel that capitalism won’t solve the problems that capitalism created.
The same kind of flooding that hit Brazil I expect to hit south Florida within the next year.
Florida does have a rigorous pumping systems due to hurricanes. So we will be able to pump the extra water out… eventually. That being said, flooding will still persist for days at a time.
Though I am sure our elected officials won’t just pretend that climate change doesn’t exist… and will put effort into upgrading that pumping infrastructure…
is the pumping system up to the same standards as Texas’ electric grid?
Not funny! 100’s of thousands of people are currently in the dark because a thunderstorm came through 4 days ago!. JK. Maybe if enough people make fun of the joke of an electrical grid Texas has, it’ll be improved.
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you guys are just as fucked as them.
I won’t disagree with you on that.
We do have tools to fight flooding when it comes. The big problems will be the ecology and industries that fall apart when streets are flooded.
I am hopeful for a scenario where the wildlife grows/adapts around the flooding. But the chemicals that get mixed in with the flooding. That will be the hard part.
Individual storms are random enough that I’m very hesitant to make that kind of short-term statement.
Takeaways:
- buy land in ATL.
- Political implications interesting. Since the poors will be the Floridians withiut options, it makes sense they’d go to GA…normally poors would be bluish voters but in FL, fuckssake who knows. Rich FL will just fly back to their homes in AZ, TX, NY, etc.
How high’s the water, Mama?
