Political Quotes

“On my trip through Senator Nelson's State, the Army Corps of Engineers officials in Jacksonville gave me some pretty dire warnings about what the sea level rise portends for Florida, both the punch from storms that will bring the higher seas ashore and the steady encroachment of saltwater. This is a scene from western Boynton Beach after Tropical Storm Isaac in 2012. I don't know if you can see it on the screen, but this sign says ``no wake zone.'' The family put up a ``no wake zone'' sign in their front yard because the cars going by would cause wakes and more damage. The Corps also showed me what 2 feet of sea level rise would do to the Everglades National Park. I went down to the Everglades later on during my visit. This is what it would look like. You can see the green in the Everglades here and all the development up here. Basically, if you add 60 centimeters of sea level rise, or 2 feet, and that is all ocean again, that is a pretty serious change. The Southeast Florida Regional Compact, which is a bipartisan coalition of four South Florida counties, predicts that the water around southeast Florida could surge up to 2 feet in less than 50 years. So that is a preview of the coming attractions ``Everglades Under Water.'' What was interesting was that the local officials, both Republicans and Democrats, were working together. The division that exists in this body doesn't exist down there.…”