Neverglades: Sorry Michael Grunwald, South Florida Is Drowning

One of the most useful articles published online is Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning.  The author is Mario Vittone, a 20-year Coast Guard veteran and an expert on drowning and sea survival.

It is a must-read for anyone with children headed to the beach this summer.  I was reminded of that article by a pointless semantic dust up over a powerful piece last Friday in the U.K. Guardian, Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away.  The article quotes Dr. Harold Wanless, chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Miami:

Every day we continue to pump uncontrolled amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we strengthen the monster that is going to consume us.  We are heating up the atmosphere and then we are heating up the oceans so that they expand and rise.

There doesn’t look as if anything is going to stop that.  People are starting to plan in Miami but really they just don’t see where it is all going.

Thus one of the great cities of the world faces obliteration in the coming decades.  “It is over for south Florida.  It is as simple as that.  Nor is it on its own,” Wanless admits.

Neverglades: Sorry Michael Grunwald, South Florida Is Drowning