Some of the reports noteworthy conclusions in the "business-as-usual scenario":

 

• Within vulnerable zones:
  
• residential real estate now valued at over $130 billion
  

• half of Florida's beaches
  

• 99% of Mangroves
  

• Sea level could rise by as much as 23" by 2050 and 45" by 2100
  
• 70% of Miami-Dade would be under water
  

• 99.6% of Monroe would be under water
  
• The Everglades would be almost completely inundated by salt water, and effectively destroyed
  

• Heat waves will become more severe and more common, with new record temperatures and a gradual decline in nighttime cooling. The average heat index in summer will increase by 15-20% in much of the state. Miami will become several degrees warmer than Bangkok (probably the world's hottest, most humid major city today) and daily highs in many Florida cities will exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit for nearly 2/3 or the year.
  

• Annual statewide economic losses (that's right...this is per year)
  
• $92 billion by 2050
  

• $345 billion by 2100
  

 

http://www.transitmiami.com/2007/11/tufts-...be-hottest.html

 

http://www.ronsachs.com/flccdownloads1107/TuftsStudy.pdf

 

 

Better build that stadium with a roof. Look on the brightside, the Orange Bowl site will be waterfront property in 2100. :mischief

*yawn*

Awesome for those of us who love the heat. Perfect weather IMO is 90 degrees and humid with little to no clouds.

Awesome for those of us who love the heat. Perfect weather IMO is 90 degrees and humid with little to no clouds.

 

I agree....

Because making predictions for a 100 years from now has been perfected, as evidenced by all the successful predictions of where we are today.

Yep. Might as well save the Everglades restoration money.

I am pretty sure I'll be dead by 2100 so I dont care

Awesome for those of us who love the heat. Perfect weather IMO is 90 degrees and humid with little to no clouds.

 

 

 

 

You're gonna have to elaborate on this for me Godfather.

 

 

 

I can see liking 90 degree weather but what is beneficial about high temperatures AND high humidity?

The title is even more unlikely than the predictions under it. Florida's weather is moderated by the humidity. That's why Toronto has a higher all-time record high (99) than Miami (98). Why Minneapolis has a higher all-time record high (105) than Orlando (102).

 

Even if the most ludacrious of global warming scenarios were to come true, there is no way in Hell that Miami will ever be the hottest city in the state, much less the World.

I am pretty sure I'll be dead by 2100 so I dont care

Which is ironically the same mentality possessed by the people making these outrageous claims.

 

How so?

The title is even more unlikely than the predictions under it. Florida's weather is moderated by the humidity. That's why Toronto has a higher all-time record high (99) than Miami (98). Why Minneapolis has a higher all-time record high (105) than Orlando (102).

 

Even if the most ludacrious of global warming scenarios were to come true, there is no way in Hell that Miami will ever be the hottest city in the state, much less the World.

 

What do single day record highs have to do with average daily temperature over the course of the year?

 

Miami is an extremely dense metro area in what can be considered a tropical climate. Over the course of the year the title as hottest city in the state or the country is entirely possible.

Unfortunately Miami already feels like the hottest city on the planet, if you've been there in August.

And the funny thing is Polar Bears are doing so much better now (in terms of population) than they were a few years ago. They are thriving as a species.

 

This is such a misconception, I don't know where global warming buffs get this idea that they are vanishing.

 

 

Interestingly, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an international organization that has worked for 50 years to protect endangered species, has also written on the threats posed to polar bears from global warming. However, their own research seems to undermine their fears. According to the WWF, about 20 distinct polar bear populations exist, accounting for approximately 22,000 polar bears worldwide. As the figure shows, population patterns do not show a temperature-linked decline:

 

• Only two of the distinct population groups, accounting for about 16.4 percent of the total population, are decreasing.
  
• Ten populations, approximately 45.4 percent of the total number, are stable.
  
• Another two populations ? about 13.6 percent of the total number of polar bears ? are increasing.
   
  Moreover, when the WWF report is compared with the Arctic air temperature trend studies discussed earlier, there is a strong positive (instead of negative) correlation between air temperature and polar bear populations. Polar bear populations are declining in regions (like Baffin Bay) that have experienced a decrease in air temperature, while areas where polar bear populations are increasing (near the Bering Strait and the Chukchi Sea) are associated with increasing air temperatures. Thus it is difficult to argue that rising air temperatures will necessarily and directly lead to a decrease in polar bear populations.