MIAMI Cheap Nike Air Max Modern Australia , the United States, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- As bad as Hurricane Irma is, an even more insidious threat is coming, as climate change causes sea levels to slowly rise and threatens to put large chunks of the U.S. state of Florida under water.
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"We're so close to sea level that if sea level is rising, there's a point where you don't need a storm (to do harm). You're just underwater," he said.
That sits in sharp contrast with just two decades ago, when the main concern of residents and property owners was hurricanes, he said.
Now, low lying cities worldwide Cheap Nike Air Max Flyknit Australia , from Mumbai to Bangkok to right here in southern Florida, are under the same threat.
According to images collected by NASA, global sea levels have risen 3 inches (7.6 cm) since 1992.
The U.S. National Ocean Service said global sea levels will likely continue to rise, although it remains unknown by how much.
Some experts said that could spell disaster for southern Florida, which includes Miami and the surrounding area.
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That can happen during the king tide season -- a time of higher-than-usual tides -- and can in some cases happen without even a drop of rain.
City officials, politicians and climate change experts with whom Xinhua has spoken said this confluence of factors -- rising sea levels, a limestone foundation and king tides -- threaten to make large parts of the area uninhabitable.
While it remains unknown whether that will take decades or a century, local residents said it seems to be getting worse.
Jose, a waiter at a downtown Miami hotel who only gave his first name, said even a couple of hours of rain can flood the streets in certain neighborhoods in Miami.
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Danny, an Uber driver in downtown Miami, echoed those sentiments, telling Xinhua that rainfall causes light flooding in some streets as he traverses the area.
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TOKYO Cheap Nike Air Max 2016 Australia , Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike came under fire Friday from a civic group and Korean residents in Japan for not paying tribute at an annual memorial ceremony held for Korean people murdered in the turmoil after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.
Unlike previous years, both the Tokyo governor and Sumida Mayor Toru Yamamoto did not send a tribute to the ceremony, which angered a civic group which promotes friendship with both Seoul and Pyongyang.
Despite sending a tribute last year, Koike said she opted not to this year but would commemorate all the victims of the quake at an another memorial service being held the same day.
The civic group issued a statement saying Koike's actions are "saying that murder victims and those who lost their lives in a natural disaster are equivalent and thus she does not need to send a tribute."
Yasuhiko Miyagawa, the leader of the group, said he was angered by Koike's decision because deaths from natural disasters are completely different from murders. He said Koike was not empathetic towards the bereaved families.
He added that it is important that the correct information continues to be passed down.
In the chaotic aftermath of the quake, Koreans and Chinese people there were murdered by military and paramilitary forces following such rumors as those people planning to riot.
The cenotaph built in Yokoamicho Park to commemorate the lives lost states that the "precious lives of slightly more than 6,000 Koreans were robbed."
Koike choosing not to pay tribute at the ceremony reportedly follows a Tokyo metropolitan assembly member urging her to consider carefully about sending a message as there are differing views on how many Korean residents were murdered in the aftermath.
Miyagawa said that Koike's decision showed a lack of empathy towards bereaved family members.
He stressed that the massacre should never be forgotten o
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