Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm late last month “suggested it is possible climate change led to the partial condominium collapse in Miami, FL,” adding that “we don’t know fully” if it did or not, “but we do know that the seas are rising.”
Yes, the seas are rising, as they have been for many centuries; the issue is whether that had anything to do with the building collapse. Some simple arithmetic is useful in this context: Sea levels have been rising by about 3.3 millimeters per year since the satellite altimeter measurement record began in 1992.
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