Rising Sea Levels

How will the rising tides affect

Florida?

Cost as much as $500 million to

install 80 pumps and raise roads
and seawalls across the city.
(Flechas & Staletovich)

Damage to cars, businesses and

homes from flooding both from
high tides and rains

Of the 1.87 million homes,

nationwide that would be
underwater by 2100, there would be
934,411 in Florida. (Bandell)

The constant rise in sea level

has forced the State of Florida
to take drastic measure to
avoid being submerged
underwater. This problem
stems from the melting ice
around the world which as
mentioned by Trevor Letcher
in his book Climate Change,
Observed Impacts on Planet
Earth that the arctic ice has
melted by as much as 280.1
gigatons from 1996 to 2005
(Letcher).

Sources:
Bandell, Brian. "Over 900,000 Florida Homes Could Be
Underwater from Sea Level Rise." South Florida Business
Journal. N.p., 4 Aug. 2016. Web. 17 Nov. 2016.
Flechas, J., & Staletovich, J. (n.d.). Miami Beach's battle to
stem rising tides. Retrieved November 17, 2016, from
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community
/miami-dade/miami-beach/article41141856.html

Floridas
Battle with
Climate
Change.

Continued

Factors that influence

climate change.
Climate change is affected by
many man-made factors
largely in part due to how
many developed and
undeveloped countries run
their huge and complex
economies. Additionally, this
has had an enormous impact
on societys constant and
everlasting dependence on
fossil fuels such as natural gas,
oil, and coal. This addiction
leaves us as a society needing
more and more fossil fuels.
Ultimately leading us to
extreme measures to obtain
natural resources.

The dependence on fossil fuels

has forced an ever-increasing
amount of CO2 molecules to
appear in the atmosphere, and
ultimately increasing the
Greenhouse effect in our
atmosphere. These CO2
molecules appear from
emission because of fossil fuel
consumptions. These
consumptions can be but are
not limited to:
Driving a car
Cooking our food
Producing goods
Powering our homes
with electricity
Taking a warm shower
Heating our homes
Producing plasti

An Uncertain Future
Although much uncertainty still
surrounds climate change most
of the evidence shows that the
global crisis is increasing and we
will soon reach a point from
which we can no longer recover
from. We have begun to see our
ecosystems and cities be
dismantled by this invisible
enemy. We still have much to
uncover and uncertainty to clear
before we can say that this crisis
is not an obstacle for our very
existence. Only then can we take
the proper steps to abolish this
issue from communities around
the world.