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.

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?

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.

"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.

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

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.

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.

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 :(

Location , location , location , head for the hills .

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

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

Call the Dutch, greetings from the Netherlands

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?

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

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.

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?

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

Same in my area, though nothings changed..

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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...???

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.

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 !

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

2 years later and still above sea level

What they do not tell you is much of the eastern seaboard is sinking. Subsidence from either soil beneath the land compacting due to water removed from the soil, or from magma moving to where ice pushed the land down a large fraction of a mile from the places it built up when the ice was there. The seaboard is on a ridge of magma that has been moving away and sinking for thousands of year.

The Bahamas 😭, where I live

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Awesome report

A rise of 4mm per year means an inch in 6 years or less, a foot in 72 years or less, a meter (39.37 inches) in 216 years or less, 10 feet in 720 years or less, and those are approximations, but close enough to get the idea.

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

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

(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.

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

During the last ice age sea levels dropped 400 feet.

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

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!

What about the Fl. keys?

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

Go along with Hope FL. is sinking due to massive lost of underground water, sea levels are rising some but mostly by melting sea ice at poles do to under water volcanoes.

Got one thing to say... SPLATOOOOOONNN!

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

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

Please, oh please update this story...I lay awake at night worrying about the fate of Miami and Atlantic City... also if my underarms stink.

Could sea water be changed to fresh water and transported it to needed areas in needed areas along with sea walls.

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.

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

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

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.

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

try to make a boundaries between sea and land likewise nether lands

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

Oh yeah. Let's hold it to 2 degrees.

At 2:04 what is that Is it the moon maybe Could it be another planet ? Looks like a planet it's dark in the image it apears too be dark so what light source is that signs and wonders

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 💰

I won't believe it until Mar-a-Lago goes under.

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

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

BTW,...isn't it interesting that all the PBS has the comments Disabled on this and similar videos,......pitiful!

they could better fight flooding if they added wave anchors like japan does

You could go fishing from the front porch.

Screw it, build your houses on stilts.

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

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.

Stop sending up Space Rockets, burning holes in the Ozone layer that comes together as one large hole 300 miles wide, and then you wonder why the Ice is melting, forget the CO2 from cars.

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.

oh well live by the ocean you pay the price for that ocean view. that's life.

Miami and the surrounding area is Sinking. Looks like the rich people will have to move

So no sea level rise?

Sweet ! I'll be closer to the beach.

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.

If you warm the ocean up, it does not expand, it evaporates.

How long before this reaches my city too? Much of the Gulf Coast, much of the coast of the whole planet, including low lying inland areas, will be flooded if sea levels rise by only a few feet, say 3 to 10 feet.

The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are knocking at the door. What is coming will look like the craziest Sci Fi / Horror movie you could ever imagine

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

Thank god I live in landlocked country

Just like Venice if you pump out all the ground water it sinks.

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

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

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