Sea level rise due to climate change eyed as contributing factor in Miami-area building collapse
As the search for survivors of the collapse of a 12-story beachfront condominium in Surfside, Fla., continued on Friday, building experts began looking at the possibility that sea level rise caused by climate change may have contributed to the disaster...
From a geological standpoint, the base of South Florida’s barrier islands is porous limestone. As the oceans encroach on land due to sea level rise and the worsening of so-called king tides, groundwater is pushed up through the limestone, causing flooding.
“Sea level rise does cause potential corrosion and if that was happening, it’s possible it could not handle the weight of the building,” Zhong-Ren Peng, professor and director of the University of Florida’s International Center for Adaptation Planning and Design, told the Palm Beach Post. “I think this could be a wakeup call for coastal developments.”
While it is too early to say whether climate change is to blame for the collapse of the 40-year-old Champlain Towers South, or if it also threatens thousands of similar structures along Florida’s coastline, sea levels rose by 3.9 inches between 2000 and 2017 in nearby Key West, according to a 2019 report by the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact. Future projections are much more dire.
But even if climate change is ruled out as a significant contributor to this particular instance of structural failure, there is no avoiding the fact that if seas continue to rise, the habitability of much of South Florida will be put in question.
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[updated*] re: "wakeup call for coastal developments... habitability of much of South Florida will be put in question"
It's too obvious. Way too obvious. What is too obvious? Answer: How that a beachfront condo in Miami, Florida mysteriously collapses with no warning... and the conversation immediately turns to [fake] "climate change and sea level rise" as the cause, or at the least, as potential contributing factors -- which means that the incident plays perfectly into the known Agenda 21 goal of clearing coastal regions of human populations -- and so it is too obvious when what supposedly is too strange to explain, is in fact probably not too strange at all to explain. The way things appear suggests strongly the event had to have been geoengineered. *And that conclusion does not even take into consideration the fact that the collapse was a perfect implosion i.e. instantaneous collapse of the entire 12-story structure into it's own footprint - which is only possible in the real world by controlled demolition [see video below]...