Miami Beach to cut back on famous palm trees over climate concerns

The Guardian UK ^ | 28 Feb 2021 | Richard Luscombe

[blueplum]

As a poster child for the climate emergency, Miami Beach has become a world leader in mitigating the effects of sea-level rise. Now the subtropical Florida city is cutting back on its famous swaying palm trees as it seeks shadier alternatives to preserve its environment and try to keep residents and visitors cool.

Officials have embarked on a 30-year plan to reduce the percentage of palm trees in the city to only one quarter of its total canopy by 2050...

...“Palms, while an iconic part of Miami Beach’s landscape, have moved from being an accent plant to a major component of the city’s urban forest. General guidelines for species diversity state that no family should make up more than 30% of a city’s tree population.”

[Lockbox]

You raise a valuable point, salt water intrusion has occurred in Miami Beach. The question of other trees tolerating salt water and surviving is very real point. So typical Lib, best intentions but clueless on reality.

A steady increase in sea levels is pushing saltwater into U.S. wetlands, killing trees from Florida to as far north as New Jersey.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/ghost_forest_rising_sea_levels_killing_coastal_woodlands

[linMcHlp]

Thanks for mentioning the town -— I did not know about the trouble caused by the set.

I sure remember the elm trees in areas of the country, before the eggheads decided to kill them “to save them” (cut them down en masse).

[IgnorerOfLiberals]

That is what happened in Connecticut during Hurricane Irene and Sandy.

[Vision]

Well, it keeps them busy from trying to fix hard, real problems.

[bgill]

Save the monkeys!!!!!

Miami should send the Cubans back to Cuba and the retired grandmas back to Brooklyn. Oh, wait, that would increase the human population of Cuba and Brooklyn.

[cgbg]

China and India are cranking up their coal fired fuel plants—while US clowns pretend to do something about the climate.

Total joke—Idiocracy at its finest...

[raybbr]

“... moved from being an accent plant to a major component of the city’s urban forest. General guidelines for species diversity state that no family should make up more than 30% of a city’s tree population.”””

Palm trees do nothing positive or negative. It’s just that they make up too high a percentage of the tree population. It’s pure insanity.

[DUMBGRUNT]

==”So California pays the well-to-do to generate solar power it doesn’t need and then pays Arizona to take it.And here’s the kicker: Folks with solar panels get paid for surplus power they don’t use—sometimes at two to three times the rate of wholesale power.”
California’s Climate Contradictions
https://archive.vn/4i3CY#selection-3539.5-3539.40