Will sea-level rise cost Miami Dade County $3.2 billion by 2040?
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Rising sea levels are a threat to coastal cities worldwide. According to a recent paper 32 cities in the US are affected alone¹.
One of these cities is Miami and the surrounding Miami Dade County. According to official estimations damages of rising sea-levels in excess of $3.2 billion can be avoided by 2040².
1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07038-3
2: https://www.miamidade.gov/global/economy/resilience/sea-level-rise-flooding.page
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@nsokolsky I was unable to find an earlier figure. It seems like this is the first study of its kind and one would need to model this for earlier years.
@pmn IMO this question is currently impossible to bet on because there isn't a clear explanation of how it would be resolved
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