Scientists project that sea levels around parts of Florida could rise as much as 8 feet over the coming decades.

The majority of Miami-Dade County is roughly six feet above the ocean today.

And one local artist is doing what he can to sound the alarm.

Jeffrey Brown reports from Miami

for our ongoing coverage of the intersection

of art and climate change and our series canvas.

You're at 10 feet, you're at 5 feet, you're at 8 feet, you are at 4 feet.

At a community event in Northern Miami,

artist and climate activist Xavier Cortada, is reminding residents just how vulnerable

their homes are.

Each number represents how many feet a property sits above sea level.

The idea says Cortada, to make people aware and get them talking in a

city where sea level rise is becoming an existential crisis.

It calls out the problem. It literally creates this process where neighbor tells neighbor,

these are the facts. This is the quantifiable problem that we have.

His underwater project starts with a visit to this website

where participants enter their address and discover their homes elevation. After

writing that number on a sign designed by Kirtada, residents place them in their own

front yards. That's what my art is about. You invite your neighbor to get in a

conversation with you about that and together you begin to figure out what

you can do about it and enough of that happens I think we can

begin to move the needle on us.

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