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happy new year Miami forgot about the ball dropping in confetti crowds in Times Square Miami has an all-night dance party lagron their aha drop and of course pitbull pitbull loves Miami and so should you but now's the time to enjoy it because the city probably won't exist in the next 100 years Miami is one of the first US cities already experiencing the effects of climate change and it's only going to get worse 60% of miami-dade county is less than 2 meters above sea level an unabated climate change until 2100 could result in a 4.3 29.9 meter sea-level rise as if that weren't enough Miami's geology renders it uniquely vulnerable the city and its beaches are built on porous limestone which soaks up seawater the seawater force's sewage up from its pipes were complete freshwater South Florida is mostly at sea level about 2.4 million people live less than 1.2 meters above the sea that's like if all the residents of Wyoming Vermont and New Hampshire were at risk Miami isn't the only city facing in Atlantis like future here in the u.s. New Orleans is also under serious threat and half of Mumbai India home to more than 20 million people will be submerged at the earth's temperature raises four degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in Egypt just a one meter increase in sea level could force 10 percent of Egyptians mostly in the Nile River Delta from their homes Bangladesh will be 17% underwater by 2050 displacing about 18 million residents 2014 was the hottest year on instrumental record since 1880 ten of the last hottest years with the exception of 1998 have occurred since 2000 and 2015 is on track to surpass 2014 by a significant margin in India 2015 had an extreme summer heat wave causing 2,200 deaths up north Greenland's ice sheets experienced historically low ice cover unfortunately current projections say 2016 isn't going to be much better long-term we're looking at a US which could look more like this and a world that looks like this so as you're celebrating the New Year ask who's gonna last longer Miami or pitbull my money's on mr. 305