Coastal Inundation Reveals the Upside of Climate Change

Published: April 7, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

b'In Miami Beach, they call it \\u201csunny-day flooding.\\u201d You\\u2019ll be hanging out downtown under clear blue skies\\u2014only to see, whoa, the streets slowly filling with water. Miami Beach, Florida, is a coastal city built on porous limestone, so as climate change melts polar ice into the oceans, water is literally pushed up out of the ground. \\u201cIt\\u2019s an eerie, scary, unnerving feeling, like something out of a sci-fi movie,\\u201d says Philip Levine, mayor of the city of 90,000.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'