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A Tale of Two Cities: Miami, New York and Life on the Edge
2014-08-22 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Walking along the waterfront in Fort Lauderdale and admiring the 60-foot yachts docked alongside impressive homes, it's hard to imagine that this city could suffer the same financial fate as Detroit. But it is almost as hard to imagine how they will avoid a similar crisis given the sea level rise predicted by scientists. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, with 5.6 million people, is "ground zero' in the battle against the rising seas. Perhaps nowhere else in America are the odds lined up so heavily...
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