Category: environmentalcatastrophe
Florida Considers Abandoning Roads and Homes to Rising Seas
http://www.miamiherald.com/… The Miami Herald reports that Monroe County Florida is considering abandoning low lying roads in the Florida Keys that will be extremely expensive to continually raise above the encroaching sea. While this might seem like a mostly local problem, it really brings home the cost of global warming–something that many dismiss as a problem for…
Puerto Ricans begin to abandon their beaches due to sea level rise clawing into the coastline.
In Puerto Rico, the economy depends on tourist dollars. Tourists and locals alike are drawn to the island’s sun-kissed beaches for fun in the sun. But sea-level rise from thermal expansion and the melting of polar ice caps has begun to erode the beaches. The width of beaches is decreasing, which reduces the buffer ability…
Dorian destroyed oil storage facility on Grand Bahama resulting in catastrophic environmental damage
As if the misery of the Bahamian people was not horrifying enough, the apocalyptic winds of Hurricane Dorian have been found to have ripped the roofs off of five storage onshore oil tanks on Grand Bahama Island. The battered island was mauled for 40 hours by the windstorms eyewall. The tanks are in the South…
