Florida Keys NOW Losing Shoreline Due to Sea Level Rise

Sea level rise, and loss of land from it, is not a theory about the future; it's happening now in the Keys.

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Florida Keys Now Shrinking From Sea Level Rise
from NPR

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On Big Pine Key, one of the chain’s largest and most environmentally diverse islands, you can already see changes brought on by the accelerating sea level rise.

A spot not far from the island’s coast used to be a pine forest. Now, it’s tidal wetlands — home to a few salt-tolerant plant species and the desiccated remnants of the old forest. Bergh described some of the changes brought on by the rising sea level.

“This stump is a pine tree — was a pine tree,” he said. “Now, it’s an old weathered pine stump. And it’s literally 100 feet or more away from the nearest living live pine. At one time, pines could live out here in what is now a mangrove marsh.”

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http://solarbus.org/blog/?p=81

The keys just take up space.

http://www.planetark.com/enviro-news/item/54057

This is the random find off a google search... the story I saw was on the front page of Yahoo! a day or three ago.

The forests are drowning in the keys, and they're beetle food in Canada. I wonder if technology will allow us to make houses & furniture out of beetles dipped in saltwater?...

Places that depend on tourism will be seeing a big downturn in the coming decades..count on it..