Climate change poses threat to future Super Bowls in Miami

The Associated "Press" ^ | January 31, 2020 | By STEVEN WINE

[Gil4]

Have it by the beach in Minneapolis instead

[lastchance]

South Florida has not functioned normally in decades.

[Thank You Rush]

“”We just don’t know how fast the water is going to rise,” said South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard, who has long been sounding the alarm about climate change.””

We just don’t know? Really?

[wetgundog]

What is a superbowl? NFL is a criminal organization of felons, domestic assaulters, and overpaid illiterates who went to college.

[samtheman]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[catnipman]

“Perhaps by then glaciers will be back in Miami.”

maybe there’s an opportunity there to buy up some swamp land really cheap and sit on it for a few thousand years in the hopes of building a ski lodge on it some day ...

[dfwgator]

Next: global warming will make us cancel the Olympics.

I think the Coronavirus has that one covered.

[trebb]

““In 10 years maybe we’ll still be functioning normally,” said Harold Wanless, a leading expert on sea level rise in South Florida. “Twenty years? I think that could be a problem.”

The Miami Dolphins’ stadium, the site of the Super Bowl this year for the sixth time, stands 10 feet above sea level. That will change, although projections vary widely. “

And in 50 years it will be 9’ and 62/64” above sea-level (didn’t reduce it to 15/16 because 64ths seemed more apropos...)

[norwaypinesavage]

Here's the actual data for nearly a century measured by a tide gauge on the Virginia Key, just outside Miami Beach. The data shows the Miami sea level has been going up at a nearly constant rate of about a foot per century for the last century. It has done this since the end of the last ice age:

[Carry me back]

Coo coo, coo coo.

[Paul R.]

The Miami Dolphins' stadium...

Well, what the heck. They ARE Dolphins. Pretty smart, right? They should be able to figure out something if the water rises. Do I need to add "/s"? (Ya' never know around here.)

[Paul R.]

If you think that is bad (AGW sky-is-falling idiots), I stumbled on this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/arts/television/super-bowl-why-watch.html

Oh, gag me! (And they probably would, if they could.)

I think we should all watch just to spite these loonies!

[Paul R.]

no one knows how much time is left.

Notice that the writer admits that the AWG'ers actually don't have a clue...

[Blue Collar Christian]

52 years ago was this stadium 10 feet above sea level?