Two Bay Area counties sue oil companies over sea-rise

San Jose Mercury ^ | July 17, 2017 | Richard Halstead

[artichokegrower]

Two Bay Area counties sued 37 oil, gas and coal companies Monday asserting the companies knew their fossil fuel products would cause sea level rise and coastal flooding but failed to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution.

The lawsuit was part of a coordinated litigation attack by Marin, San Mateo County and the city of Imperial Beach.

[dasboot]

This is the next Cheech and Chong movie....they are the plaintiffs.

[Cheerio]

Hope they are suing at the 9th Circus ‘cause they are sure to win there!

[seawolf101]

The ocean levels have been rising for thousands of years. Either they have never been to school or were totally drugged out and were incapable of learning. There needs to be a minimum level of competency to walk or drive. These people should be locked up for their own safety.

[Jim from C-Town]

Sue Obama. He is the one who promised to lower the sea levels.

[Persevero]

Has the sea actually risen? Or are they suing over something they imagine is going to happen?

[GSWarrior]

These counties and cities are likely looking for someone to foot the bill for coastline erosion maintenances.

[Vince Ferrer]

I live in Marin County. It’s full of liberal morons. I don’t know of anywhere in Marin County that’s been affected by rising sea levels. Around the Bay, I’d bet that any rise in water levels are due more to erosion of the shore washing into the Bay. Our family home was right on the Bay - our son bought the house from us - I don’t see any difference in the shoreline there - looks just like it did in the 1970s.

The only thing that I know about that is changing in the Bay area is that the bay is gradually filling in with silt. In fact, that is happening much faster than sea level rise.

Alviso, CA, used to be a town with a port on the south edge of the bay near San Jose. There is no shipping there now, because of an earlier flood, but also because the whole south bay is getting to be more marsh than bay.

This is the Alviso marina. Recently, after about 25 years, they finally dredged a path through the marsh back to a water channel so boats can use it again.

The whole bay is actually very shallow, much more than it appears. About a third of it is probably no deeper than 20 feet. There is commercial shipping, but that is along very narrow dredged channels. By the time there is any sea level rise, this whole bay will be a marsh or plain.

[tubebender]

There is no recorded rise here on Humboldt Bay...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I called the No. Koreans last night and asked them to put Marin County on their surprise nuclear attack plan.

They said that they would send me an autographed picture of Little Fat Boy Kim and suggest that he take my idea seriously.

Marin County will have more important things to plan for instead of non-existing sea rises.

You want Kimchee with your incoming delivery?

[Lisbon1940]

Charlie Brown is from Santa Rosa.

[Axenolith]

Yea, that and 3 cycles of UST replacement/upgrades was pretty much it for mom and pop operations...

[rey]

Charlie Brown is from Minnesota. He just moved to Santa Rosa.

[KingofZion]

nice use of tax $$$ - ironically these are 2 wealthy counties that will suffer very little from rising waters. but it’s driving them nuts that trump has turned off the volume.

[TChris]

Submit the asinine claims of Climate Change^TM to the actual rules of evidence in a court of law? Sounds intriguing...

[USCG SimTech]

Oh please do bring your court-provable evidence that the race of Man, never mind these oil companies as the defendant, is responsible for the ocean levels to change.

While their at it maybe they can also prove Man is able to alter the output from the Sun and water vapor percentage in the atmosphere.