Sea level rise: Miami and Atlantic city fight to stay above water 

Florida is one giant sand bar. I think it's sinking. P.S. Quit building high rise motels 3 feet away from the ocean. Is the planning commission, out of mental commission?

So they want to keep the water out but also want to live right on/by it? Sounds like Florida is playing hard to get.

"Some parts of Florida have experienced as much as twelve inches of sea level rise" 2:20. And the other parts of Florida have not? No. Some parts of Florida are experiencing subsidence because of loading the ground with buildings and extracting water from the ground.

It looks like Atlantic City will have to be renamed to Atlantis in the future.

hasn't the temperature leveled off for the last 20 years?

Call the Dutch, greetings from the Netherlands

Those Miami Beach properties must be selling for pretty cheap - well, maybe not. Here is testimony from someone in the field... I was helping to fix a concrete boat dock with the seawall on Miami Beach in 1991, where we marked the low tide and the high tide. In 2017 there is not an inch difference. At that time in 1991 when we did the work they said that in a decade or two the water will reach above the dock....somehow it did not happen.

Location , location , location , head for the hills .

Have no fear florida, sea level rise will not be as drastic as feared. It turns out that people did the math on total ice in the polar regions and the effect they would have on the ocean's if they melted all at once. This would require air temperatures to rise, as that happens so too does it's ability to hold moisture. This is known as holding capacity and is why we use hot air to dry our clothes and hair. This warming of the air will cause it to hold more moisture, in effect putting a very large portion of meltwater into the air through increased ocean surface evaporation due to the warmer air working similarly to a hair dryer. This increase in air moiture levels will cause more snowfall to occour in the polar regions as well. Both of the natural phenomenon will combat drastic sea level rise.

Go check out Tony Heller on youtube and get real facts on climate change not this "Made for the Naive" commercial.

You build your house next to the ocean and you don't expect to get seawater on your driveway ? That's kind of like building your house in the mountains and expecting never to shovel

Sea levels in the Sydney harbour Australia 🇦🇺 are unchanged for 200 years!

LMAO! I've lived in Florida 53 years now. this is all hogwash!

We have countless photos of celebrities and buildings and cities from 20,30,50, even100 years ago. We can all see the change then and now in those photos. Where are the photos of sea levels historically compared with sea levels today? Why can't I find these photos anywhere? If I search Google Images I get graphs and documents and I get projected sea-level change photos. If This Were a real thing shouldn't these photos be a really easy way to prove it?

When the rich stop investing in beach front property. I will believe your nonsense.

Low income, high crime, low education; and you want to perpetuate it??? You're not convincing me to bother!!!

When you see the rats running to high ground, is time to sell your home before you’re literally find yourself under water. No pun intended.

Head to the high ground now. Many locations in South America look great if you have a dependable income.

Half the reason for flooding is that Local Authorities have over the last 30 years, alowed building of homes on land which has been recognized as FLOOD PLAINS for 100 years.

crazy…. at 17yo I hiked the Glaciers in CO (now gone), lived in the CO mountains (before the fires), walked New Orleans (before it was decimated), took a sailboat down the FL keys (before it was physically destroyed by hurricane)… now at 40yo I am here watching cities wash away along the Missouri River and praying for you all along the coastlines In only 20 some years the US has lost so much from climate change :(

The paving of Florida real estate is a huge effect on water movement.

It will be interesting to come back to this in 20 years and see if they were right. But somehow it won't be available.

It's sad That some people refuse to believe that this is reality! 😟

Low income areas get little consideration budget spending, accept when it comes to policing.

Same in my area, though nothings changed..

Florida voted for Trump. So, .... bye.

He forgot one other reason, for local sea level rising, land sinking...

Me and my Girl Friend took a road trip to Florida Keys from Canada and canoed there knowing very well that about 30% of the places where we went will be underwater in just about 30 years from now. What a pity.

It seems to me after watching so many of these type of videos, that we are indeed going to face trillions of dollars of damage in lost real estate. Instead of frantically trying to think of ways to keep the water out, why not put that money towards learning how to live with the rising levels like they have in The Netherlands. I was watching a really interesting documentary about a company that makes homes and even office buildings that float, they can be tied to a fixed more, but one which can rise up or down with the ever changing the sea levels, and in worst case scenario is they can just move the structure somewhere else, as technically it’s a boat, although it looks like a regular house. I don’t know this person personally, it’s one of my friends friend, but this person lives on one of these new homes, and he sent me a whole bunch of pictures, and I was in shock! It looks exactly like every other home in the country, it’s got a car parked in the driveway, The beautiful landscaped front yard, and just looks like an average home, until you look a little closer and noticed there’s a small gap between the house and the land. They’ve engineer to concrete wall, that has middle peers driven into the ocean floor, and the house is attached to these peers by giant rings. The place literally has the concrete basement, but it’s a specialized concrete that’s much later and stronger than regular concrete. They guarantee that this structure will float, and never leak, for at least 100 years. The best part is it’s a lot cheaper than a regular home on land, and if you don’t like your neighbours you have to simply can’t catch your house from the peers and move it someplace else via tugboat. I was absolutely blown away at how beautiful and modern this house it is, I would never guess in 1 million years it’s an actual houseboat, but then I found a website that shows how they manufacture these homes and it’s absolutely incredible, and quick. They can build a house in Half the time it takes to build a regular house. They simply floated out of the dock, and tow it to its permanent mooring. I even saw a structure that looks like a good-sized office building, that was five stories high, and to my incredible surprise was actually floating. The Dutch are absolute geniuses, As they’ve had to fight off the seat their entire life, and they have become masters at it, we here in North America could learn a lot from them, so instead of fighting like hell to try to keep the water out, which is a losing battle anyways, why not start off a new, and copy the Netherlands example?

anyone else hear "we're going to need tons of federal money (read tax dollars from the rest of the working class country) to bail out these ultra rich city's disastrous, reckless, building and development projects"? Bail out money just like the S&L crisis while mayors, developers, bankers and insurance companies take years of massive cash grabs knowing that building hi-rises on a limestone coastline isn't sustainable.

I grew up by the Baltic Sea water level is same past 50 years. Weather on Earth is driven by Sun but of course that's excuse to raise taxes.

Lol, it happened again. It's like they did learn or they don't want to learn. It's about filling ones pocket and let those who live there suffer. They have been arguing about it but nothing much. They are all just busy collecting 💰

So why would you build a new nuclear power reactor AT SEA LEVEL , SALEM NJ ? If you knew sea level it was rising ? Cause it’s not !

Since the 1950's some parts of Florida have experienced 12 inches of sea level rise. Is there anyone stupid enough to believe that only SOME parts have and others haven't?

The only time sea level goes up is Hurricane season . so stop the BS

Forget climate change , it's unavoidable, have a look at the Netherlands instead , i live a couple of foot under sea level and we never had a problem , watch and learn

So they don't bring up the high level of dredging that's causing this also. Them pulling sand from the ocean floor in Miami to build high rises could be one of their biggest problems.

If sea level rises anywhere, it rises everywhere. Water seeks its own level. Period.

NOAA published rate of rise is 2.8mm per year and slowing. Look it up. That's 8 inches each 100 years. Do your own research people.

Decades ago in school geology it was stated that the tectonic plate under the miles high ice sheets was pushed down in the north and tipped up in the south, Florida, and as all that ice was gone that now the north is rising and the south is lowering back down....not sinking... So how can you say Florida is seeing sea rise rather than Florida sinking?? The sea level hasn't been rising anywhere else that follows your logic or measurements...???

Property values in Miami Beach should be falling, are they? Thank you Jon S. for this… I was helping to fix a concrete boat dock with the seawall on Miami Beach in 1991, where we marked the low tide and the high tide. In 2017 there is not an inch difference. At that time in 1991 when we did the work they said that in a decade or two the water will reach above the dock....somehow it did not happen.

The Bahamas 😭, where I live

I live right by Atlantic City and it's been flooding during very bad rainstorms for decades. Not any noticable changes. Its not the bays or the beaches that flood it's the drains that case some streets to flood. But it's been like that.

Well now we'll need to swap out the alligators for salt water crocs. Hey Australia, got any to spare?

THE US IS DOOMED

(2:20) "Since the 1950s, some parts of Florida have experienced as much as 12 inches of sea level rise." NOT POSSIBLE. Why hasn't the rest of the coast experienced this? You CANNOT fill a bathtub and see the water rise in only part of it. There's another problem. Are parts of Florida sinking due to ISOSTASY? Over the decades, you have been adding weight to that part of the planet. Buildings, roadways, etc. Could all that weight be causing parts of Florida to sink? We've witnessed that in Las Vegas, yet no one is saying the desert is rising.

If you read the Guardian you deserve to be served up with this nonsense! Sea level can't just rise in one area. It self levels. Land sinking CAN? Any water arriving on the East Coast would keep going and find its own level? Wherelse is it arriving? Florida? Low land!

tell that to Trump.. hes in denial but then its NOT happening to him

This is video is what normal people call bending the truth,

Tell the government to stop playing with their weather warfare weapons.

i told a friend in Boca, Florida, she said it aint happening for a long time still. Looks like its going to be sooner than later.

We are not seeing sea levels rising in any significant ways. Land subsidence is a differnt bird. Look at the data from sea level measuremetns all over the world. Nothing is happening with actual sea level rise. Period.

CHINA and other countries need to change the most, the USA is NOT the problem

Why does Al Gore live in an exclusive beach resort community in trendy California?

2 years later and still above sea level

Sea level rise? Not to worry. Florida state governor has forbidden state employees to discuss the matter. Problem solved!

Here is a little fact. If the sea rises it rises in all spots, not just some. The 😂, i need a minute to laugh. Wow. 😂

sea level is not rising the land is sinking i live near the water and fish every week have never seen the water rise and i only fish on land for the last 45 years

Not sea-level rise... it's land sinking. Otherwise, water would be rising EVERYWHERE.

Got one thing to say... SPLATOOOOOONNN!

Hey, if you are low income; in a vulnerable location for sea level rise, in Miami or Atlantic City, then you have few options, but one big one rises above all the others: MOVE OUT; MOVE INLAND...NOW. There will be NO HELP. The sooner you act the better.

No rise at all. tectonic plates are sinking in some areas stop this talking.

Get funding from corporations

You will not stop the pole shift that is forcing Florida towards the ocean bulge at the Equator.....

Are sea levels rising more than they have since the last ice age? Is Miami sinking?

Janice McKee I haven’t a clue what you’re writing about, I live 600 miles from the ocean and 10 Miles from the nearest river and lake, and 1800 feel above sea level.

Florida's main issue is likely to be subsidence. Is it not?

So no sea level rise?

During the last ice age sea levels dropped 400 feet.

Awesome report

How often does sunny day flooding occur and when did sunny day flooding start? Recently, 10 years ago, 100 years ago?

It never fails to amaze me how humans believe they can fight mother nature.....and win! hahhahhahhahahahha

there is honest explanation if you look, did you know that Florida is sinking, how can water levels change in individual parts of the Earth ,BUT not in others, Australian has no Sea level rise???? for instance since the last mini ice age, sea levels have been rising at a rate of 3 inches per 100 years, CO2 is not causing any climate crises, the Earth is greening because of the minor increase in CO2 now at 410 ppm , I'm sorry that some parts of the land mass that we live on, are sinking, while others are rising, but there are explanations out their if you choose to look, sea level rise? remember 40 years ago their were claims that the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean would be under water in less than 10 years, BUT now 40 years later, nothing has changed , developers have been investing in new construction at a increased rate, Insurance companies are insuring these new buildings ? why? check it out ,

Nearly a decade has passed since this video was released, and Miami and Atlantic City are just fine...

Don't worry coal jobs will fix it.

No one factors in increased evaporation and the ability of hot air to hold more water vapour.

Screw it, build your houses on stilts.

The Battery tidal gauge in New York shows a sea level rise of 3mm per year for the last 170 years .... and the trend has not changed ... what has changed is the satellite sea level data which has been "adjusted" ...there are numerous tidal gauges all around the world, all showing a straight line trend.

Can't wait to see how the changes to the NFIP will affect the price of coastal properties...

Absolute repose does not exist in nature. All things either make progress or lose ground. Everything moves forward or backward, nothing is without motion. This planet is going to get warmer or colder, and anything we do will be temporary. If it is getting warmer, as the available data suggests,best we prepare for it, as Mr. Trump has done, and build a few sea walls. And plant a tree

plant and grow lots of trees will take down the CO2 and we are in a mini ice age now and bad weather we have not had before

People in the Pacific Islands and islands in the Indian Ocean: WELCOME TO THE FLOOD-CLUB AMERICA!!!

400 million to raise south beach streets yet act like they have no money and to let the citizens rot on the streets? The poverty and conditions in neighborhoods in miami is unlike anything I have seen in the country

Jakarta too...most of north jakarta are below sea level

As mentioned below.The reality is the land is sinking due to the water table dropping. Everybody please educate yourself. Where I live the water hasnt risen 1cm. How is this possible.

IDK about global warming as much as the amount of boats subs and nuclear waste we have in the ocean that made it rise or volcanic activity making new land take more of a prespective on things and it might make more sense

Call in the Dutch, learn how they deal the water in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 where nearly a quarter of the country is below sea level.

Everybody knows Florida is not sinking and the ocean is not rising...if it was, Al Gore would not stay in his big beach front home.

Guess pretty soon all those expensive properties on the intracoastal will be underwater

US and world tide gauges indicate the trend in increasing sea level has not accelerated in 100 years and the worldwide increase is about 8”/century when unadulterated, and lags behind the CO2 upward curve. Many coastal areas show significantly more increase than others due to the coastal land subsiding. Many parts of Miami are islands covered with unstable sand.

The ice will not at the North Pole because for 6 months a year the sun doesn’t shine there. And the temperature Falls to -40c below, and water freezes at -0.

Didn't obama just invest about 12 million in some beach front property? yes he did, he didn't seem too worried in his investment. lmao

Unmitigated cowflop.

You could go fishing from the front porch.

If the sea is rising how come banks will still give you a loan for property on the sea? I don't believe the sea is rising. If it were then there would be strict building and purchasing guidelines. These big banks know better than to loan money on a bad investment.

We can always built a dome in coastal areas so we can become an under water city like Atlantis, right?.

Why not clean the water and use it for food and drinks.

This whole "climate change" thing is half baked. If floating ice melts, it does not increase the displacement of the water that floats it. Only ice over land that melts makes a difference. We also have a problem with the earth changing size due to internal temperatures. The earth is 8000 miles in diameter, and given the coefficient of thermal expansion of rock (solid or liquid), a 50 foot change in the earths diameter is nothing. We also have instruments that can measure movements of the earths surface to fractions of an inch. The problem is, we do NOT have a standard location to begin from. There is also a problem with the earth's surface moving in 3 dimensions, with each area being different and usually unrelated in the movement. What we need, is more monitoring and actual science instead of environmentalists telling us we are going to die. All of us have numbered days. None of us needs to be reminded of that. We need more options. If people are worried about "global warming" and C02 emissions, then we need to look into LFTR as an energy source. It is new and safe nuclear technology. Instead of having "demonstrations" and beating a drum... read a little to figure out the problems and then work towards getting it fixed. Sickum Uncle Donald !

About 900 feet above sea-level here in Kentucky. See you when you get here.

Anyone who really cares can go to NOAA's Sea Level Trends website and note that the tide gauges all over the world agree that sea level has been rising linearly since tide gauges started collecting data in the 1800s. Increasing carbon dioxide has not affected this linear trend at all. It is foolish to think that anything we can do will change this linear increase that has been occurring for over two hundred years now...