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Its like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their homes post storm.

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Sea levels are rising, swamping roads and homes in South Florida. And its picked up the pace in recent years.

In the last 80 years, sea level rise has risen about a foot. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that pace is expected to speed up.

Dense thickets of ghostly corals shelter myriads of unfamiliar sea creatures have been found covering a vast area of the deep Atlantic, breaking records to become the largest known deep sea reef.

A potential consequence of a weakening Florida Current could be higher sea levels and more sunny day flooding.

A potential consequence of a weakening Florida Current could be higher sea levels and more sunny day flooding.

A potential consequences of a weakening Florida Current could be higher sea levels and more flooding in Miami, the U.S. east coast and the Bahamas.

A potential consequences of a weakening Florida Current could be higher sea levels and more flooding in Miami, the U.S. east coast and the Bahamas.

Https://youtu.be/G2kHk1mykoo Good tempering discussion of last week's breathless headlines about the "Collapse of the Gulf Stream". I get why reporters on deadlines use "Gulf Stream' as short hand for the unwieldy mouthful "Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation", (AMOC) but it's lead to some confusion. Possible consequences of AMOC collapse are of course, dire, but clickbait headlines…