Southeast Florida is a model for how to deal with a problem that is neither going away nor getting less politically contentious.
...the 2010 agreement by the four counties of Southeast Florida – Miami-Dade, Broward (which includes Hollywood), Palm Beach, and Monroe – to form the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, an agreement that they would work together to pursue climate change adaptation measures, as well as federal recognition of their plight.
Two years after its founding, the compact released an action plan containing 110 recommended steps for cities and counties, ranging from cutting emissions and facilitating the deployment of clean energy to identifying areas which needed special attention due to constant flooding or proximity to rising seas.
"They've been leading on this for a while," says Vicki Arroyo, who directs the Georgetown Climate Center. Not only is the compact the U.S.'s shining example of a regional collaboration to advance climate adaptation, says Arroyo, but its structure — a partnership between counties — may be more sturdy than anything that can be achieved at a state or national level.
What's most striking is how the compact has deftly handled the difficult politics of climate change. The founding county commissioners behind the agreement were three Democrats and one Republican. The four counties themselves are politically quite mixed. Broward is the most left-leaning, with almost twice as many registered Democrats (551,794) as Republicans (237,693) — but it also has a very large proportion of voters with no affiliation (277,952). Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties favor Democrats by smaller margins and in Monroe County, which contains the highly vulnerable Florida Keys, registered Republicans outnumber Democrats.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/31/the-unlikely-group-of-republicans-who-are-preparing-florida-for-climate-change/
By preparing you mean doing nothing.
Perhaps they should stop building condos on the natural barrier between the ocean and the mainland. The dunes on the barrier islands are non-existent now.
Preparing? Our state government is literally not allowed to mention the term "climate change."
I guess that's how they prepared for it. "Duck & Cover!"
Quote from: carpnter on April 01, 2015, 11:23:34 PM
Perhaps they should stop building condos on the natural barrier between the ocean and the mainland.
A little late for that, don't you think?
Is it true that some banks are concidering not selling 30 mortgages due to the sea rise?