Cost Of Seawalls Alone For FL Will Total $76 Billion By 2040 - State Budget In 2018 Was $89 Billion

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Ed. - And, of course, that's assuming sea walls would work in all locations (which they probably won't, given the state's geology).

Climate change is going to cost Florida more than any other state. It’s not even close. That’s according to a new report from Resilient Analytics and the Center for Climate Integrity, which projects that the state could be on the hook for building $76 billion worth of sea walls by 2040 to mitigate the effects of climate change — and that’s based on a conservative sea level rise scenario. To put that in perspective, Florida’s entire 2018 budget was about $88.7 billion.

“As a nation and as a global community, due to climate change, we are set to undertake the most dramatic economic and social transformation in human history,” said Center for Climate Integrity executive director Richard Wiles. “And yet no one has bothered to even estimate what the core components of climate adaptation will actually cost.”

The center said it tried to do just that by estimating the cost of building sea walls all around the country that could withstand the sea level rise expected by 2040 under a relatively moderate carbon emissions scenario. To do that, it consulted with the engineering firm Resilient Analytics and experts at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Paul Chinowsky is the CEO of Resilient Analytics and the director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s environmental design program. As the lead scientist on the study, he acknowledged that not every community would need a sea wall to protect itself from sea level rise. “The sea walls were just a basic, consistent measure that we could use across the country,” Chinowsky said on the call. “They’re not necessarily the best alternative in every place.”

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https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/06/20/florida-could-face-76-billion-in-climate-change-costs-by-2040-report-says/

[democratisphere]

1. The reality is Florida will become a modern day Atlantis.

[LastDemocratInSC]

2. I have a nephew who worked at the Heritage Foundation

And thinks the Heartland Institute is wonderful. He also got a phone call a few years ago from a Microsoft Windows "remote analyst" who told him that his computer was infected with malware and required immediate repair. He fell for that ruse for the same reason he likes conservative ideology: He is either gullible or stupid. Neither one is good.