Florida public radio told us last February that the state made a lot of star appearances in the latest IPCC report:

Climate change has already changed places like Florida permanently and irreversibly — affecting coral reefs, leading to higher property values and increasing inequality for vulnerable populations in the state, according to a new global report from the world’s top scientists.

The nearly 2,000-page report had a global focus, but Florida was repeatedly used as an example of a place where the impacts of climate change were already being felt, both economically and environmentally.

Which is unsurprising seeing as how it’s a narrow peninsula in a rising sea.

The report specifically mentions Florida multiple times, including:

• Tidal flooding worsened by sea rise has led to almost $500 million in lost real estate value from 2005 to 2016 in Miami-Dade alone, “and it is likely that coastal flood risks in the region beyond 2050 will increase without adaptation to climate change.”
• Miami-Dade’s efforts to raise roads and build stormwater pumps have raised property values, leading to inequality for vulnerable populations
• Floridians could be forced to retreat from the coast as sea levels rise
• Florida’s coral reefs are bleaching and dying as temperatures rise
• As coral reefs die, Florida could lose up to $55 billion in reef-related tourism money by 2100
• Harmful algal blooms along Florida’s west coast spurred by climate change led to massive economic losses

Oh and also hurricanes. Bigger stronger wetter windier hurricanes.