Posted on 02/07/2019 1:30:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In 70 years, San Francisco as we know it could look drastically different. Gentrification, development and the other forces of urban change we fret about may be mere trifles compared to the drastic effects of climate change, including the rise of sea levels and erosion, scientists say.
By 2100, rising sea levels could displace more than 480,000 people along the California coast and result in property losses upwards of $100 billion if no preventative measures are taken, according to a 2009 study by the California Climate Change Center.
The study found populations in the San Francisco Bay Area are especially vulnerable, as are people of color and low-income communities.
The projections represent a worst-case scenario for the city and represent how the landscape would look if there were no efforts to stave off the rising sea or to stem erosion. Nonetheless, as climate change accelerates, the NOAA models could prove true. Some models estimate the sea will rise by 4.60 feet in the next 100 years - nearly seven times the rate of the 20th century.
In San Francisco, tourist attractions like Fisherman's Wharf, Crissy Field and the Palace of Fine Arts will be lost to the sea, as will the Salesforce Tower, the Google offices, the San Francisco and Oakland Airports and the Ferry Building, according to the Climate Central models.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
We were told this was going to happen by 2000.
If a gigantic tectonic event like the Quake of 1906 could not spell the end of San Francisco, a little thing like “climate change” won’t make much difference.
Sea levels are not going to rise by anything like the “predictions” have claimed.
Why do we have to wait so long?
Are you talking about the poop on the sidewalks? Or the Sodomites of the Castro district?
Not Guilty!
all of the above, including especially the politicians there (who fit both of your categories)
Get those girls a couple of happy meals. I’ve seen death camp survivors with more meat on them than these three.
They could use a sammich or two.
Submersibles built by the Ford Motor Company.
Spear guns instead of 38s.
I’d like the Pat Williams tunes remastered and used again though.
The models damn well better suggest inundation or they’ll stop using them...
These morons can’t even predict the weather correctly 70 hours from now, much less 70 years from now.
We better put a wall around 3 sides of it before then so they don’t get out when it floods.
Couldcouldcould
Mightmightmight
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The econazis will be up in arms, they are polluting the pacific
Yep. Models created by the same people whose models have always been laughably wrong in the past. I won't be around in 70 years to see this one disproven.
The Salten Sea was created by flooding with ocean water. Dig a trench around San Francisco, below sea level. Flood the area.
Add boat docks.
Over millions of years, the Colorado River has flowed into the Imperial Valley and deposited soil (creating fertile farmland), building up the terrain and constantly changing the course of the river.
For thousands of years, the river has alternately flowed into and out of the valley, alternately creating a freshwater lake, an increasingly saline lake, and a dry desert basin, depending on river flows and the balance between inflow and evaporative loss.
The cycle of filling has been about every 400–500 years and has repeated many times. The latest natural cycle occurred around 1600–1700 as remembered by Native Americans who talked with the first European settlers. Fish traps still exist at many locations, and the Native Americans evidently moved the traps depending upon the cycle.
The most recent inflow of water from the now heavily controlled Colorado River was accidentally created by the engineers of the California Development Company in 1905. In an effort to increase water flow into the area for farming, irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado River into the valley. The canals suffered silt buildup, so a cut was made in the bank of the Colorado River to further increase the water flow.
The resulting outflow overwhelmed the engineered canal, and the river flowed into the Salton Basin for two years, filling the historic dry lake bed and creating the modern sea, before repairs were completed.[2]
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Further reading[edit]
Goodyear, Dana (May 4, 2015). “The dying sea: what will California sacrifice to survive the drought?”. Letter from the Imperial Valley. The New Yorker. 91 (11): 22–27. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
Greenfield S (Winter 2006). “A Lake by Mistake”. Invention & Technology. 21 (3). Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
Setmire, James G., et al. (1993). Detailed study of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea area, California, 1988–90 [Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4014]. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Setmire, James G., Wolfe, John C., and Stroud, Richard K. (1990). Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea area, California, 1986–87 [Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4102]. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Sperry RL (Winter 1975). “When the Imperial Valley Fought for its Life”. Journal of San Diego History. 21 (1).
GoogleBooks.com: The Salton Sea: An account of Harriman’s fight with the Colorado River
deBuys, William and Myers, Joan (1999), “Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-down California”, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, ISBN 0-8263-2126-7
Metzler, Chris and Springer, Jeff (2006). Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, Tilapia Film – history of the Salton Sea, and interviews with residents and naturalists
Stevens, Joseph E. Hoover Dam. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. details on the Salton Sea disaster
Stringfellow, Kim Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005. Columbia College Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-935195-32-0
Who could trust a “reporter” who doesn’t know the difference between “purposely” and “purposefully?”
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