I’m sorry to spoil the climate porn, but while the periodic puddles in my Whole Foods parking lot are harbingers of a potentially catastrophic future, they are not currently catastrophic. Will be better called “Neverglades” going forward given the ecological transformation that will come with rising seas.īut Grunwald was right, to my eye, to challenge what he called a fresh example of “climate porn” (here’s a 2007 discussion of the roots of that phrase): Michael Bloomberg’s no-retreat approach is utterly unscientific.Īs Romm writes, the Everglades that we knew - and wrecked - in the 20th century (see Grunwald’s great book on this) Integrate that reality into development decisions far faster than they are doing (Grunwald, of course, would agree, and we all agree that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is important, too). Romm’s right that today’s coastal communities need to
Inch a decade - roughly the 20th century average - to two, three or conceivably four times that pace by this century’s end. Sea-level rise is ever so incremental (“ a disaster epic in slo-mo“), with rates expected to increase from three quarters of an Joe Romm, the climate blogger for the Center for American Progress, criticized Grunwald for being too focused on the British paper’s histrionic semantics and missing the big picture - that drowning usually doesn’t look like drowning, whether its a weakening swimmer or a coastal
But, the idea that the city is already under assault is fantasy given building and investment trends noted even in The Guardian piece. Vulnerability, given its porous limestone underpinnings and wraparound shores. Since I first covered global warming in depth in 1988, Miami has been a poster child for coastal (The Guardian story was an echo of a May feature in The Times.) Me), but cheered him on earlier this week on Twitter after climate campaigners attacked him ( Grunwald a “denier” and “polyanna”?) for challenging an overheated Guardian account of the impacts of rising sea levels on Miami (Grunwald’s home turf). I’ve differed with Time Magazine’s fine correspondent Michael Grunwald on the importance of the Keystone pipeline ( Grunwald, Credit Angel Valentin for The New York Times Scenes of street flooding, like this one on Alton Road in Miami Beach in November, are becoming increasingly common.
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