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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>October 17</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[much of Florida will be flooded, sometime in the future ]</i><br>
<b>New study projects sea level rise to drain Florida’s financial
future</b><br>
WMFE | By Molly Duerig<br>
October 16, 2023<br>
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Yet despite serious risks associated with living close to rising
seas, Florida’s coastline remains highly attractive to homebuyers:
keeping property values in those areas relatively high, and
encouraging even more real estate development there.<br>
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As more property tax revenues roll in, they boost local governments’
bottom line. Right now, Florida’s coastal areas generate $2.36
billion a year in property taxes for local governments; again, a low
estimate, per the study.<br>
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But sea level rise is only predicted to get progressively worse,
jeopardizing the future of not only those coastal communities, but
the critical funding they supply for Florida’s local governments.<br>
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“What’s going to happen is: we’re going to keep growing,” Butler
said. “There’s going to be more people living in those at-risk
coastal zones. There’s going to be more stress and strain on those
existing budgets, unless we change the growth paradigm that we
currently operate under. And there’s no hint that that’s <br>
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Users can also use the study’s interactive StoryMap to explore
Florida at a more granular level, and see how heavily the state’s
municipalities depend on revenues tied to land projected to
eventually be underwater.<br>
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In Central Florida, Cape Canaveral is projected to lose 38% of its
local revenues to sea level rise; Flagler Beach, 30%; and Daytona
Beach, 27%, according to the StoryMap...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wmfe.org/environment/2023-10-16/sea-level-rise-drain-floridas-financial-future">https://www.wmfe.org/environment/2023-10-16/sea-level-rise-drain-floridas-financial-future</a>
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<i>[ Interactive Map ]</i><br>
<b>The Fiscal Impacts of Flooding in Florida</b><br>
Sunshine, Sand and Sea Level Rise: Florida's Fiscal Vulnerability to
Chronic Inundation...<br>
<b>The State of Florida</b><br>
Projecting the impact of chronic inundation on Florida's municipal
finances...<br>
<b>The St. Petersburg Metro Region...</b><br>
<b>Planning Responses and Recommendations</b><br>
Prior Responses Have Had Mixed Results...<br>
<b>About the Project...</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cugis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=754b615fa5db4bbea0ed393a2c730163">https://cugis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=754b615fa5db4bbea0ed393a2c730163</a><br>
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<i>[ British scientist says 'faster than expected' ]</i><br>
<b>Antarctic climate change is taking us by surprise</b><br>
Dr Gilbz<br>
Oct 16, 2023 #ClimateChange #Antarctica<br>
While global temperature rise may be behaving as predicted, there
are certain regions on earth where climate change is happening way
faster than expected. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mpCMQgtAk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mpCMQgtAk</a>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Polar melt watch ]<br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri">OCTOBER 15, 2023<br>
<b>Scientists count huge melts in many protective Antarctic ice
shelves. Trillions of tons of ice lost.</b><br>
by Seth Borenstein<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have
shrunk by at least 30% since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more
than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that
surveyed these crucial "gatekeepers'' between the frozen
continent's massive glaciers and open ocean.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Of the continent's 162 ice shelves, 68 show
significant shrinking between 1997 and 2021, while 29 grew, 62
didn't change and three lost mass but not in a way scientists can
say shows a significant trend, according to a study in Thursday's
Science Advances.<br>
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That melted ice, which usually pens larger glaciers behind it,
then goes into the sea. Scientists worry that climate change
-triggered melt from Antarctica and Greenland will cause dangerous
and significant sea rise over many decades and centuries.<br>
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"Knowing exactly how, and how much, ice is being lost from these
protective floating shelves is a key step in understanding how
Antarctica is evolving," said University of Colorado ice scientist
Ted Scambos, who wasn't part of the study.<br>
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Scambos said the study gives insight into fresh water that's
melting into the Amundsen Sea—"the key region of Antarctica for
sea level rise"—that not only adds height to the ocean, but makes
it less dense and salty...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">All told, Antarctic ice shelves lost about 8.3
trillion tons (7.5 trillion metric tons) of ice in the 25-year
period, the study found. That amounts to around 330 billion tons
(300 billion metric tons) a year and is similar to previous
studies.<br>
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But the overall total is not the real story, said study lead
author Benjamin Davison, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds
in the United Kingdom.<br>
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What's most important, he said, are the patterns of individual
shelf loss. The new study shows the deep losses, with four
glaciers losing more than a trillion tons on the continent's
peninsula and western side...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Some of them lost a lot of their mass over
time," Davison said. "Wordie is barely an ice shelf anymore."<br>
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The Wordie ice shelve, which holds back four glaciers near the tip
of the Antarctic Peninsula, had a big collapse in 1989, but has
lost 87% of its remaining mass since 1997, Davison found.
Neighboring Larsen A has lost 73% and Larsen B 57%. The largest of
the Larsen ice shelves, Larsen C, has lost 1.8 billion tons (1.7
trillion metric tons) of ice, about one-eighth of its mass.<br>
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The biggest loss of all is in the Thwaites ice shelf, holding back
the glacier nicknamed Doomsday because it is melting so fast and
is so big. The shelf has lost 70% of its mass since 1997—about 4.1
trillion tons (3.7 trillion metric tons)—into the Amundsen Sea...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The ice shelves that grew were predominantly on
the continent's east side, where there's a weather pattern
isolates the land from warmer waters, Davison said. The ice
shelves on the east were growing slower than the shelves losing
ice to the west.<br>
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It's difficult to connect an individual ice shelf loss directly to
human-caused climate change, but steady attrition is expected as
the world warms, he said.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-huge-antarctic-ice-shelves.html">https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-huge-antarctic-ice-shelves.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri">More information: Benjamin Davison et al,
Annual mass budget of Antarctic ice shelves from 1997 to 2021,
Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi0186.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi0186">www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi0186</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Global warming is the perfect dark
crystal -- an enormous </i></font><font face="Calibri"><i>faceted</i></font><font
face="Calibri"><i> gem that is endlessly expanding </i></font><font
face="Calibri"><i> </i></font><font face="Calibri"><i>]</i></font><br>
<b>Breakbone fever: Dengue will soon pose a “major threat” to US,
the WHO says</b><br>
By Matt Field | October 6, 2023<br>
Thanks to global warming, the last eight years have been the hottest
on record. Now, along with wildfire smoke and stronger storms,
climate change may soon deliver to parts of the world yet another
unwelcome gift: dengue, a disease so unpleasant to experience that
its nickname is breakbone fever.<br>
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Higher global temperatures promise to make dengue a major threat in
the southern United States, southern Europe and new areas of Africa
within this decade, World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist
Jeremy Farrar told Reuters. “We need to really prepare countries for
how they will deal with the additional pressure that will come … in
the future in many, many big cities,” the wire service reported
Friday...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">It’s a problem that may become more common with
climate change, a dengue expert at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) suggested.<br>
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“Higher temperatures will probably expand the range of places
where a mosquito can survive. And then it can also facilitate
transmission through other ways, like faster viral replication in
the mosquito and increased survival of mosquitoes,” Gabriela
Paz-Bailey told CNN in August.<br>
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The miasmatic theory of disease, common from the days of
Hippocrates through much of the 19th century, held that the
weather played a role sparking epidemics. “Unhealthy winds” could
transport diseased vapors great distances, the since-discarded
concept maintained. Benjamin Rush, a doctor who documented a 1780
epidemic in Philadelphia that many scientists believe was dengue,
echoed the theory in his analysis, noting the winds that had been
blowing over area swamps. “Moschetoes” were everywhere in the
autumn of ’80, he reported. “A certain sign of an unwholesome
atmosphere.” Though miasmatic ideas were abandoned long ago in
favor of the germ theory, it seems that the climate—as in climate
change—will play an important role in disease transmission. And,
if Farrar is right, in the case of dengue, that could happen in
the United States very soon.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/breakbone-fever-dengue-will-soon-pose-a-major-threat-to-us-the-who-says/">https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/breakbone-fever-dengue-will-soon-pose-a-major-threat-to-us-the-who-says/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/breakbone-fever-dengue-will-soon-pose-a-major-threat-to-us-the-who-says/?utm_source=SocialShare&utm_medium=CopyLink&utm_campaign=CopyLink&utm_term">https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/breakbone-fever-dengue-will-soon-pose-a-major-threat-to-us-the-who-says/?utm_source=SocialShare&utm_medium=CopyLink&utm_campaign=CopyLink&utm_term</a><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back Al
Gore presidential debate -]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>October 17, 2000 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> October 17, 2000: In the third presidential
debate, Vice President Al Gore declares:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"I spend a good deal of time
talking to young people, and in my standard speech out there on
the stump, I usually end my speech by saying, 'I want to ask you
for something, and I want to direct it especially to the young
people in the audience,' and I want to tell you what I tell
them. Sometimes people who are very idealistic and have great
dreams, as young people do, are apt to stay at arm's length from
the political process, because they think their good hearts
might be brittle, and if they invest their hopes and allow
themselves to believe, then they're going to be let down and
disappointed. But thank goodness, we've always had enough people
who have been willing in every generation to push past the fear
of a broken heart and become deeply involved in forming a more
perfect union. We're America, and -- and we believe in our
future, and we know we have the ability to shape our future.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Now, we've got to address one of the biggest
threats to our democracy, and that is the current campaign
financing system. And I know they say it doesn't rank anywhere
on the polls. I don't believe -- I don't believe that's a fair
measure. I'm telling you, I will make it -- I will make the
McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill the very first
measure that I send to the Congress as president. Governor Bush
opposes it. I wish that he would consider changing his mind on
that, because I think that the special interests have too much
power and we need to give our democracy back to the American
people.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Let me tell you why. Those issues you
mentioned, Social Security, prescription drugs--the big drug
companies are against the prescription drug proposal that I've
made. The HMOs are against the patients' rights bill, the
Dingell-Norwood bill, that I support and that Governor Bush does
not support. The big oil companies are against the measures to
get more energy independence and renewable fuels. They ought to
have their voices heard, but they shouldn't have a big megaphone
that drowns out the American people. We need campaign finance
reform, and we need to shoot straight with young and old alike
and tell them what the real choices are. And we can renew and
rekindle the American spirit and make our future what our
founders dreamed it could be. We can."</font></blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">(64:40--67:22)</font><br>
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