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Wednesday, August 02, 2023 5:35:18 PM
George Orwell, move over. Solid writing. Thought was Trump spending more time there would ramp up the poison of the place. Got this 7-year itch:
Water world: rising tides close in on Trump, the climate change denier
Climate change has barely registered as a 2016 campaign issue, but in Florida, the state which usually decides the presidential election, the waters are lapping at the doors of Donald Trump’s real estate empire
Suzanne Goldenberg @suzyji
Wed 6 Jul 2016 21.00 AEST
In 30 years, the grounds of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago could be under at least a foot of water for 210 days a year. Photograph: Alamy
[...]
Bober said he had seen storms with water pouring over the sea walls of the intracoastal. “Water just floods the entire neighbourhood, and there is nothing we can do about it,” Bober said. “We have occasional storms where we are totally overwhelmed.”
Such instances are only growing more frequent. Bolter’s modelling suggests Trump’s Hollywood condos could be turned into islands for up to 140 days a year by 2045, cut off from the low-lying A1A coastal road because of tidal flooding and storm surges. Under a category two storm, a storm surge could wash right up to the front gate.
Further south, the Trump Grande in Sunny Isles also faces a soggy future, according to the projections. In 30 years, the boundaries of the property could face tidal flooding and storm surges for 97 days a year, cutting off access to the A1A road. The beaches could also be scoured away by erosion.
“The big issue here is that if a big storm hits, you have 5ft, 6ft waves, and that is going to eat away even at the grass here. It could push the waves even to where we are standing, And if that is going to eat away this whole area, that could do some serious damage,” Bolter said.
[...]
Since 2006, the average rate of sea-level rise in south Florida has increased to 9mm a year from 3mm a year, for a total rise over the decade of about 90mm, or about 3.5in, according to Shimon Wdowinski, a research scientist at the University of Miami.
As a result, flooding in Miami Beach and other low-lying areas has doubled over the last decade, Wdowinski found, using tide gauges, rain records, insurance claims and other data to construct the flood record. “People should be aware of where they want to invest for their properties,” he said. “I think for the next 20 years it will be OK, but I don’t know if it will be in 50 or 80 years. That’s a different story.”
[...]
In his offices in the historic city hall of Coral Gables, James Cason keeps a poster-size map showing a wide swathe of land, sliced up by canals, yacht moorings and multimillion dollar homes in gated communities with elevations below 4ft.
About 34 miles of Coral Gables are exposed to the ocean. The entire area – representing about $3bn in property and about 10% of homes – will be underwater in the second half of the century, according to Noaa’s projections.
Two schools, 20 bridges, 21 pumping stations will all be swamped, according to the projections. Some 302 yachts will almost certainly be trapped behind low-lying bridges. Water treatment plants and pumping stations will no longer work.
Cason has no patience for those, like Trump, who deny climate change is occurring. “It’s an existential threat to a city like us,” he said. So much so that Cason has hired consultants to contemplate a future when it may no longer be able to engineer a way out of sea-level rise.
“What do you do if and when the water is up so high you can’t provide services – when do you stop charging taxes?” he asked. “If your house is underwater, can you stop paying taxes on it?”
He would like to believe that by the end of the century scientists will have figured out a solution to the rising seas that threaten his city. But there is one thing of which he is certain: Coral Gables will not survive by retreating behind a sea wall.
“There is no Dutch solution,” he said. “You can’t really build a wall around it. It will just come up from below.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/06/donald-trump-climate-change-florida-resort
Water world: rising tides close in on Trump, the climate change denier
Climate change has barely registered as a 2016 campaign issue, but in Florida, the state which usually decides the presidential election, the waters are lapping at the doors of Donald Trump’s real estate empire
Suzanne Goldenberg @suzyji
Wed 6 Jul 2016 21.00 AEST
In 30 years, the grounds of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago could be under at least a foot of water for 210 days a year. Photograph: Alamy
[...]
Bober said he had seen storms with water pouring over the sea walls of the intracoastal. “Water just floods the entire neighbourhood, and there is nothing we can do about it,” Bober said. “We have occasional storms where we are totally overwhelmed.”
Such instances are only growing more frequent. Bolter’s modelling suggests Trump’s Hollywood condos could be turned into islands for up to 140 days a year by 2045, cut off from the low-lying A1A coastal road because of tidal flooding and storm surges. Under a category two storm, a storm surge could wash right up to the front gate.
Further south, the Trump Grande in Sunny Isles also faces a soggy future, according to the projections. In 30 years, the boundaries of the property could face tidal flooding and storm surges for 97 days a year, cutting off access to the A1A road. The beaches could also be scoured away by erosion.
“The big issue here is that if a big storm hits, you have 5ft, 6ft waves, and that is going to eat away even at the grass here. It could push the waves even to where we are standing, And if that is going to eat away this whole area, that could do some serious damage,” Bolter said.
[...]
Since 2006, the average rate of sea-level rise in south Florida has increased to 9mm a year from 3mm a year, for a total rise over the decade of about 90mm, or about 3.5in, according to Shimon Wdowinski, a research scientist at the University of Miami.
As a result, flooding in Miami Beach and other low-lying areas has doubled over the last decade, Wdowinski found, using tide gauges, rain records, insurance claims and other data to construct the flood record. “People should be aware of where they want to invest for their properties,” he said. “I think for the next 20 years it will be OK, but I don’t know if it will be in 50 or 80 years. That’s a different story.”
[...]
In his offices in the historic city hall of Coral Gables, James Cason keeps a poster-size map showing a wide swathe of land, sliced up by canals, yacht moorings and multimillion dollar homes in gated communities with elevations below 4ft.
About 34 miles of Coral Gables are exposed to the ocean. The entire area – representing about $3bn in property and about 10% of homes – will be underwater in the second half of the century, according to Noaa’s projections.
Two schools, 20 bridges, 21 pumping stations will all be swamped, according to the projections. Some 302 yachts will almost certainly be trapped behind low-lying bridges. Water treatment plants and pumping stations will no longer work.
Cason has no patience for those, like Trump, who deny climate change is occurring. “It’s an existential threat to a city like us,” he said. So much so that Cason has hired consultants to contemplate a future when it may no longer be able to engineer a way out of sea-level rise.
“What do you do if and when the water is up so high you can’t provide services – when do you stop charging taxes?” he asked. “If your house is underwater, can you stop paying taxes on it?”
He would like to believe that by the end of the century scientists will have figured out a solution to the rising seas that threaten his city. But there is one thing of which he is certain: Coral Gables will not survive by retreating behind a sea wall.
“There is no Dutch solution,” he said. “You can’t really build a wall around it. It will just come up from below.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/06/donald-trump-climate-change-florida-resort
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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