Sea Levels: State and City Size

sea levels: Louis or Pittsburgh, according to The Japan Times. Every job-seeker, retiree or new birth, along with billions spent by tourists, helped fuel Florida's propulsive growth and economic gains. ; Yet Hurricane Irma's destructive floodwaters renewed fears about how to manage the state's population boom as the risks of climate change intensify. Until Irma struck this month, the state was adding nearly 1,000 residents a day 333,471 in the past year, akin to absorbing a city the size of St. Rising sea levels and spreading flood plains have magnified the vulnerabilities for the legions of people who continue to move to Florida and the state economy they have sustained. A lot is going to change in the next 30 years this is just the beginning, Keenan said. Florida faces an urgent need to adapt to the environmental changes, said Jesse Keenan, a lecturer at Harvard University who researches the effects of rising sea levels on cities. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.