Miami, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Stephen Lacey 18Michael Grunwald 6Miranda Green 1Josie Tomkow 1Dr. Lisa Schipper 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Miami comes up
What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
- ▶ 19:37 Miranda Green We first started digging into this story because we hired a reporter, um, who had, you know, is a local Miami-based reporter, and he had heard about this ghost candidate scandal that had been going around in Florida at the time.
The ‘ecological ponzi scheme’ putting Florida at risk
- ▶ 5:09 Stephen Lacey Mike Grunewald is a longtime journalist based in Miami.
- ▶ 10:35 Michael Grunwald He came to see me in Miami cause he had read the swamp and he was pitching this idea of a solar powered eco-friendly town in, in the middle of Southwest Florida.
- ▶ 14:12 Michael Grunwald Well, I think, first of all, the good news is that there hasn't been nothing, um, particularly in my part of the world, in, uh, in Southeast Florida, in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, there has been, you know, where, and again, locally, this is,… 4 times in the scene
Should we eat bugs, farmed fish, or soy?
- ▶ 21:35 Michael Grunwald They're building the world's largest fish farm right near me, about an hour south of Miami in, in Homestead, and you can get their Blue House Salmon now at Publix.
Why ‘maladaptation’ is getting so much attention
- ▶ 0:36 Stephen Lacey And as sea levels rise, this kind of flooding is becoming increasingly common in cities like Miami. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32 Stephen Lacey It was, yet again, another dire climate report, and it cited Miami's sunny day floods as an example of climate impacts that are hitting cities today. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Stephen Lacey And as we said at the top of the show, the report cites Miami as a city where efforts to adapt to climate change might actually be leaving some people worse off.
- ▶ 4:11 Stephen Lacey Alex Harris says Miami's sunny-day flooding is more than just a nuisance. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:19 Dr. Lisa Schipper The example for Miami is good because some of these areas are very attractive to live in, but when they come with flooding hazard, they become less attractive.
- ▶ 8:48 Stephen Lacey What does maladaptation in Miami mean for investments in climate infrastructure in the rest of the world?
- ▶ 15:41 Stephen Lacey But climate change isn't going anywhere, and cities like Miami need to make big investments in climate-adaptive infrastructure right now. 3 times in the scene
Florida is the latest battleground over fossil-fuel phaseouts
- ▶ 6:31 Josie Tomkow Yes, we have seen Tampa, Miami, and Pinellas Park.
- ▶ 15:56 Stephen Lacey Just last month, the Tampa Bay Times reported on a TECO pressure campaign in Miami that resulted in that city pulling back on aspirations to phase out fossil fuels.