"Florida's next two decades could be more disruptive than any period in its history as climate change threatens the state's 8,500-mile coastline and chews away at its $1 trillion economy.

New modeling by Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan economic think tank, reveals that '100-year floods' could occur every few years rather than once a century in many locations, endangering an additional 300,000 homes, 2,500 miles of roadways, 30 schools and four hospitals.

Miami will also become 'the most vulnerable major coastal city in the world,' RFF said, with hundreds of billions of dollars in assets under assault from winds, storm surges, coastal flooding and sea-level rise."

Daniel Cusick reports for ClimateWire February 3, 2020. [2]

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"Sea Level Rise Accelerating Along US Coastline, Scientists Warn"  (Guardian) [3]