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Miami
CNN
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In a city where “sunny day floods” increased 400% in a decade, rising seas are changing the old real estate mantra of “location, location, location.”
In Miami these days, it’s all about elevation, elevation, elevation.
And long before melted ice caps wash over Ocean Drive, one of America’s most vulnerable big cities is becoming a test case for the modern problem of climate gentrification.
While some scientific models predict enough polar ice melt to bring at least 10 feet of sea level rise to South Florida by 2100, just a modest 12 inches would make 15% of Miami uninhabitable, and much of that beachside property is among America’s most valuable.
READ: Millions of US homes at risk of chronic flooding this century, study says
Even now, as more frequent “king tides” bubble up through Florida’s porous limestone,…
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