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A quickly warming Gulf of Mexico is driving a faster-than-expected rise in sea levels along the Gulf and across the east coast of Florida and the southeastern U.S., according to two recently published studies by climate scientists.
If these higher rates of sea level rise continue, or even accelerate further, property insurance will be disrupted faster and more deeply, with bad consequences for Florida’s real estate market and mortgage lending.