Posted on 12/13/2012 8:25:20 PM PST by artichokegrower
Susan Schwartz already drives a Prius and has solar panels on her home. But the 69-year-old Berkeley woman still doesn't think she's doing enough to stop global warming.
On Thursday and Friday, Schwartz will join hundreds of other Bay Area residents to document the spectacularly high tides lapping at shores and seawalls across the region. The tides aren't new - they happen every year - but this week a coalition of government and nonprofit advocates hopes the photos will draw attention to the rising seas.
The photos of the king tides will be collected online on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr and will offer the most compelling preview of what scientists say the Bay Area could look like in 2070, when the sea level is expected to be as much as 3 feet higher than it is now, organizers said.
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It looks like Bruce and his pals better keep their guitars tuned up. We might need another concert.
San Fran Sicko has needed a good hosing down for a long time.
If the fault line shifts and dips all of SF in the bay permanently can we say it was glo-bull warming?
SF built on hills. Unlikely to be too much flooding there. Other
Bay Area communities not so much.
Lunar perigee (closest approach to the earth for the month and second closest of the year): Dec 12 23:15 357073 km
New Moon: 2012 Dec 13 8:42
Perihelion (closest approach of the earth to the sun): 2013 Jan 2 5:00
Without a hint of global warming, this would be one hell of a high tide. With global warming it will be about an inch higher.
“King tides themselves are the highest high tides of the year”
Being San Francisco wouldn’t they be Queen Tides?
If she’s really committed, Susan should go down on the shore and hold those big tides back to prevent them hitting San Fransissysko.
If Susan was really committed she knows what she needs to do to permanently remove her carbon footprint.
“Being San Francisco wouldn’t they actually be Queen tides?”
Not if they are King “tourist” Tides and don’t stay long.
BTW when I mentioned SF wouldn’t be hit too hard by flooding
I was thinking relative to the destruction caused by Sandy. Of
course anyone who loses property is going to see it differently.
“Being San Francisco wouldn’t they actually be Queen tides?”
Not if they are King “tourist” Tides and don’t stay long.
BTW when I mentioned SF wouldn’t be hit too hard by flooding
I was thinking relative to the destruction caused by Sandy. Of
course anyone who loses property is going to see it differently.
If the tide would rise about 300 feet along the California coast, things would improve.
I remember reading a story a few yrs back from this same paper, which cited 2 studies of the effects of global warming on California. One study said increased flooding and the other said increased droughts. Of course, the writer never bothered to question this obvious contradiction.
Same high tides in John Wayne’s Balboa Bay and Dana Rohrabacher’s Huntington Harbour, in the OC, a Red County.
There is an paved underwater road that leads out into SF Bay perpendicular to Alameda Beach at the Park. I recall this road was flooded over in 1930`s ?? If so then SF global warming is 70 years too late.
The only solution left is for her to stop expelling CO2 from her lungs.
So this rare tide comes, the sea level goes up 9 feet more than average, and a couple parking lots are flooded. So lets spend trillions to fight off a couple inches of sea level rise from “global warming.”. how about we just pave a few more parking lots and move on.
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If they happen (in the same way) every year, then there's no evidence that the seas are rising.
Put another way, they are intentionally misrepresenting a routine, annual occurrence (which is to say, the 1-year flood plane boundary) as a catastrophic, human-caused disaster that trillions of dollars worth of economic output should be sacrificed in order to prevent. Which it won’t, because the tides will happen anyway, even if all carbon combustion ceased immediately.
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