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[–] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 97 points 5 months ago (4 children)

They're gonna have to build a wall to keep the water out!

[–] teft@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if the ocean will pay for this one.

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[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 months ago

You might want to build one to keep the Floridians in

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

And then they're going to have to drive a Chevy there to check if it's dry..

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 82 points 5 months ago (9 children)

More than two thirds of Florida adults consider climate change a threat to future generations and say state and local governments should do more to address it, according to a poll released Monday by Florida Atlantic University.

The poll found 68 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that climate change “has them concerned about the well-being of future generations in Florida,” according to a news release from the university. Just 28 percent said state, county and city governments were doing enough to address it. source

It’s not a self-inflicted wound. I am so tired of this misinformation for the sake of pithy humor. Recognize oppression when you see it or you are on the side of fascism.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yet they're still voting for Republicans. They're enabled this.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, because decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, lobbying, political corruption and misinformation campaigns directed toward one of the most educationally underserved states has absolutely no effect on elections.

What you are doing is usually termed victim blaming, so careful.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Be careful? Ease off the drama my man.

77 percent voter turnout and 51 percent voted for Trump. At some point it just becomes a matter of infantalizing people.

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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Mostly the Cubans and old folks from other states who move there for their last decade or two of life. The old folks will be dead before it’s a problem, the Cubans refuse to vote for anyone left of hitler because they hate the idea of another people’s revolution taking their ill-gotten wealth, even though todays Cuban Americans aren’t nearly as powerful as the Cubans that the revolution overthrew.

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[–] Marleyinoc@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Floridians are still voting Red in droved. Guess something else is more important to them at the polls.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

They gotta ban abortion and 'save' all the fetuses first so they too can experience the horrors of global warming and climate change under the watchful eye of a theocratic dictatorship.

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[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for posting this. I've lived in Florida my whole life, and voted blue-no-matter-who in every election since I was eligible to vote, as do all my friends and family. I try to help others within my sphere of influence to make good political choices, too, and those conversations can be hard. My area has been particularly red for as long as I can remember, and that has only gotten more true in recent years. It often sucks to live here but I am stuck for the foreseeable future, and so I am putting forth the effort to change what I am able.

As such, I have always found it a bit discouraging that so many seem to think that Florida is some hive-mind phenomenon, wherein every eligible person votes against their own best interests in perfect unison. I mean, a lot of them do, obviously -- but the lack of empathy for the rest of us, that's the weird part to me.

Also, this got me curious and I looked up how the voter base skews along party lines, the numbers are way closer than I would have guessed.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 11 points 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing. On the behalf of the rest of the “leftist” internet I’d like to apologize.

There’s a lot of demented jokes people make about the underserved and oppressed and I try to do my part to counteract it. :)

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yet they keep voting for the opposite. Is it tribalism or is the data wrong?

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I think if you're in Florida, sell now and get out (sucks for whoever's willing to buy). Not just the parts that will be submerged, get out of the whole place because the policies/insurance/laws/taxes are going to go absolutely nuts for the whole state.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hear Aquaman is ready to scoop up all of those underwater properties!

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 70 points 5 months ago (4 children)

They'll blame democrats of course

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

Well of course the rich will leave, then even with the gerrymandering Dems or even progressives can take control, just in time to be blamed like Biden for Trump's tax hikes (the cuts were permanent for the rich and temporary followed by hikes for us plebs).

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 60 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry, all those people who are going to lose their homes to raising ocean waters can just sell their property.

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 41 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I hear Aquaman is looking to boost his real estate portfolio.

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[–] grenmark@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately that will flood many of the major cities in Florida, leaving it politically redder...

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You really think all those silver hairs will stay. They will infest alabama and it will barely change a shade.

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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Sea level rise of 5 meters isn't happening in any of our lifetimes. Don't get me wrong, climate change and its resulting sea level rise are very very real, but even the most dire forecasts don't predict a 5 meter sea level rise in the next 100 years. Models of a high emissions scenario has the rise "only" going up 3.9 meters 126 years from now

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A permanent rise, yes, but storm surges and stuff will make Miami uninhabitable far sooner than that.

Miami elevation is 6 feet? Something like that?

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

True, good point, but the general idea still stands. It's gonna be (I'm totally guessing here) like at least another 70 years before sea level rise + storm flooding events will make inland areas uninhabitable

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It'll be within the next ten years that it'll get hit by a Katrina-like event.

The models the ICC accepted were all "in line with historical data". So much so that the "Hot Model Problem" became a known thing, models predicting climate change that were too hot for the ICC to accept.

Our models are conservative, likely by a good margin.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Hurricanes and storms means that you don't need to wait for the full amount of sea level rise. Insurance is already skyrocketing because of the damage.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Sea level rise of 5 meters isn’t happening in any of our lifetimes.

Report: 500K South Florida Homes at Risk of Storm Surge

The newly released report highlights the Miami metro area's mass exposure to coastal flooding risk from hurricanes.

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Often the deadliest element of a hurricane, surge waters from strong storms can rise 15 feet or more above the ordinary sea level, enveloping streets and buildings in coastal areas.

The report found that roughly 7.7 million homes in hurricane-exposed regions in the U.S. are susceptible to storm surge flooding.

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[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This can all be avoided with a pallet of paper towels and a sharpie.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just circle the area of the map where you want the climate change to go.

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[–] luckystarr@feddit.de 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So, which backwater town will become the next big harbor City?

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I wonder where the Florida refugees will go…

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If we get the right ~~person~~ rabbit, they won't have anywhere to go.

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Current models predict that climate displaced people in the US generally are all going to begin moving towards the Great Lakes as the least severely impacted parts of the country. Apparently to Wisconsin in particular since it's less already inhabited than the rest of the region.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If we had a functioning government in the US, this could be less of a problem. I wonder how we get one of those?

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Vote out Republicans at every level of government.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, you've got alligators swimming up to your house now, but just remember that for a brief, shining moment . . . profit was made.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Anyone on the florida coast knows it's not sea rise alone that will get you.

It's hurricanes.

I'm not on the coast, but let me tell you, the existential dread the last few seasons was real (and proven right with Ian), much less this upcoming season.

Another underappreciated point: most people who live right on the coast now are snowbirds in giant mansions, who can very much afford to lose their vacation home to a hurricane. They don't even live there most of the time.

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