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How Global Warming Will Affect Floridians
A photo essay exploring the consequences of climate change for Florida residents, businesses and visitors.

  Intro text
Coastal homeowners
Scuba divers
Citrus growers
Crop farmers
Tourism
The Everglades
Senior citizens
Parents

If you love the Everglades . . . visit now. Global warming will do irreparable harm.

Photo: Everglades enthusiasts will be affected by global warming.  
The Florida Everglades are one of the state's top tourist attractions. Little wonder: the Everglades are the greatest subtropical wilderness in North America, featuring a diversity of native ecosystems -- from pinelands and sawgrass prairies to hardwood hammocks and cypress swamps -- that harbor dozens of endangered or threatened species, including the vanishing Florida panther. But global warming threatens to do this remarkable region grave harm. So if you're an Everglades lover, brace yourself. This natural treasure will never be the same.

As the sea rises, low-lying coastal areas like the Everglades will be flooded or made more vulnerable to storms. The anticipated two- to three-foot rise in sea level over the next 100 years will cause salt water to flow 10 miles or more inland -- right into the Everglades.

  Photo: Everglades enthusiasts will be affected by global warming.

A shift of that magnitude would be catastrophic. The lower Everglades would likely be lost. A century of agricultural development, water diversion, and pollution have already taken a major toll on the Everglades, shrinking them to less than half their original size and eliminating massive amounts of wildlife habitat. After years of planning, multibillion dollar efforts to restore the Everglades are just beginning to get underway, but these efforts may be overwhelmed by advancing salt water caused by global warming.

Photos: Gary Braasch



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asthma
automakers
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biofuels
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cap 2.0
cap and trade
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carbon capture and storage
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Elizabeth Kolbert
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flooding
floods
florida
food
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Gary Braasch
gas prices
global warming and health
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global warming emissions
global warming legislation
green buildings
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growing green awards
habitat loss
health
health effects of pollution
heat waves
hurricanes
hybrid
hybrid vehicles
hydrogen
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International
international agreements
interviews
IPCC
legislation
liquid coal
livestock
maps
marine conservation
Massachussetts v EPA
McKinsey
melting ice and glaciers
Montreal Protocol
mountaintop removal mining
national parks
natural gas
new energy economy
nitrogen oxides
nuclear energy
ocean acidification
ocean pollution
oil
oil shale
ozone
photos
polar bears
policy
power plants
public transportation
renewable energy
renewable energy/clean energy
respiratory illness
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salmon
science
sea-level rise
smart growth
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species protection
sprawl
storms
sulfur dioxide
Supreme Court
tar sands
tennessee
testimony
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toxic waste
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trout
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