One for the global warming denier baboons here

[OwlHoot]

2017-04-04 Miami's Fight Against Rising Seas

Or is it that Florida is sinking?

When I called, I’d ask my dad how the building was doing. “The basement flooded again a couple weeks ago,” he’d sometimes say. Or: “It’s getting worse.” It’s not only his building: he’s also driven through a foot of water on a main road a couple of towns over and is used to tiptoeing around pools in the local supermarket’s car park.

[vetran]

2017-04-04 Miami's Fight Against Rising Seas

Or is it that Florida is sinking?

The weight of MF visiting?

[BrilloPad]

I was not convinced until I saw that article. Now I am convinced.

I also think that if a woman is not pregnant one day, and pregnant the next day, by week 40 she will give birth to 280 babies.

And that I have a 10% chance of having my car stolen by a polar bear(10% chance car thief is left handed, all polar bears are left handed).

[glebe digital]

OK, I'll bite.

If you build a waterfront paradise on drained/reclaimed land at sea level you must expect flooding, and useless basements.

In Miami, I believe they've been collecting sea level data since at least 1921, so the upward trend has been known for some time. One might blame short-sighted developers & the lure of making a heap of $$$$, but I do find it difficult to have sympathy with well-minted retirees who knowingly bought property on a swamp.

My advice to Miami is to embrace the decay and re-brand with gondoliers & gelato.

[_V_]

Flooding occurs when there are huge tides. The tides are driven by the moon.

One can only conclude that aliens / Russians or Chinese have invaded the moon.

I for one hope that Trump destroys the moon with nuclear weapons and solves this once and for all.

[NotAllThere]

One for the global warming denier baboons here

I thought this thread was about monkeys in tights.

[northernladyuk]

The old man does a 30 denier baboon for a reasonable fee.

[Paddy]

Scheveningen is below sea-level; no problem there.

https://denhaag.com/en/scheveningen

[_V_]

Scheveningen is below sea-level; no problem there.

https://denhaag.com/en/scheveningen

Maybe Trump needs to build a wall around Florida instead of Mexico. There's an idea.

[Mordac]

OK, I'll bite.

If you build a waterfront paradise on drained/reclaimed land at sea level you must expect flooding, and useless basements.

In Miami, I believe they've been collecting sea level data since at least 1921, so the upward trend has been known for some time. One might blame short-sighted developers & the lure of making a heap of $$$$, but I do find it difficult to have sympathy with well-minted retirees who knowingly bought property on a swamp.

My advice to Miami is to embrace the decay and re-brand with gondoliers & gelato.

Well said. Most of southern Florida is swampland, the rest is reclaimed swampland which has been built on. Where it has been densely built on (e.g. Miami) the water which has been in the ground for x thousand years has got to go somewhere.
They clearly don't have much in the way of building regs if they let people build basements there - that takes a level of stupidity hitherto unknown outside some states in the US.