Originally shared by Christopher Lamke
Kudos to car makers for realizing they're living on the same planet and need to join the effort to fight climate change.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/carmakers-tell-white-house-that-climate-change-is-real-in-letter?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Reality is setting in for carmakers.
ReplyDeleteThe car of the future will be more expensive, because it will need to float, at least until you can push or pull it to higher ground. With these massive rain events, like we just experienced in Central Florida, localized flooding is becoming much more common. Trash and debris is plugging up the storm sewers.
ReplyDeleteMac Baird Central Florida has about 25 years, give or take 5, left as a habitable place.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle I agree. Rising sea level, more intense (wind and rain) storms, seawater intrusion into the coastal freshwater table, deteriorating coastal municipal infrastructure, coastal/beach erosion, all point to limited habitability, especially on barrier islands like the one I live on. I am on a canal off the Inter-coastal Waterway, positioned about 6 feet above the current water level. I have instructed my children to sell the property, when they inherit it sometime in the next 30 years. In the meantime, storm surges have only consumed about half my freeboard during any of the local hurricanes since 2000, but I expect that freeboard to diminish in the years to come.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle But the real reason Florida will become uninhabitable is the big "HEAT".
ReplyDeletesciencedaily.com - Floridians could far far more frequent, intense Heatwaves: Risks assessed under highest projected greenhouse gas levels
Mac Baird If you say so, but people live in hotter places all over the world than Miami.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle With Florida's retired population being one of the largest in the nation, the risk from storm related power outages with attendant loss of air conditioning is getting more serious every year. The elderly cannot even escape from their high rise condos and hotels without elevators, and even basic homes become unlivable without a/c in triple digit heat index conditions. Last year's hurricanes left many people who tried to race the storms up the state stranded in their cars on turnpikes that became parking lots, and many gas stations closed empty. There is a problem when 20 million people all decide to drive north at the same time. The infrastructure cannot handle the load. Many people in nursing homes cannot be evacuated. My neighbor across the street has a health condition that makes a/c mandatory. Miami Beach already experiences flooding on high tides. The issue is the heat extremes are going to get more intense each year.
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