Covering Miami’s Rising Seas: Sensors, Public Data & Politics

By: Robert Gutsche | PBS

Miami, no more. That’s a scenario we’re facing in South Florida as the world’s seas continue to rise.

Over the “past half-century,” The Washington Post reported in October, “average sea levels in South Florida have risen by 4 to 6 inches, an extensively documented increase that accelerated since the early 1990s.” And based on data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, easily one of the most well-respected reports on climate change, by 2100, the world’s sea levels will have risen by two feet more than current levels.