Climate Calamity in Florida is an essay about climate change impact risk assessment — specifically about the impact risk status in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Based on a 2018 risk assessment project conducted by a west-coast non-profit risk advisory firm Four Twenty Seven, a local risk assessment scale is developed covering the period 1911 (when average temperature was first recorded at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport) and 2023. Population growth, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and average temperature are the key factors that affect the risk assessment scale levels (values). These important factors are discussed in detail.
Concluding the essay, this important question is answered: Based on the present trend of population growth, atmospheric temperature, and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, to what extent are Sarasota and Manatee counties in climate peril, and destined for a "high-risk" calamitous climate future?