Never knew models were so smart.
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.
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The homelss will have to go somewhere else.
The whole world will be underwater by 2008 so why is this relevant... /s
There’s no question the ocean is rising (when the tide is coming in)
Sounds like those folks better start moving to higher ground then.
Some models estimate the sea level will fall by 5 feet in the next 100 years. It is highly unlikely that the sea will rise at all.
These dire predictions are nothing more than mental masturbation to please the global warmers are they not?
Never knew models were so smart.
They will be up to their eyeballs in feces and hypodermic needles long before then.
None of this matters. In the 1970s, the prediction was that by now California would have broken off and fallen into the sea. California’s gone. None of this matters.
Good riddance to a toilet city.
Seventy years?
Before seventy years San Francisco will be reduced to rubble by an earth quake
It’s a lie, but it would be no big deal even if true. If the people of San Francisco today are not as smart as the people of Venice 1500 years ago, they deserve to drown.
They are going all out with the BS now. It’s actually phase 2. Phase one was convince an entire generation that the world is on the brink of destruction. They were successful.
Ummm.....
Sooooo...what’s the downside?
Here in the south bay, I’m hoping to have a house boat in the event of the bay water levels rising dramatically.
There must be pontoon kits out there or maybe large rubber air bladder kits.
Damn this climate change anyway. So many options, so little time to play with all of them.
OH NO!!!
All those plastic syringes will be washed out to the sea.
Well, at least there won’t be any plastic straws.
And... where’s the punchline?
When my 3rd grade daughter came home with a handout on global warming from NatGeo, I sent her to school the next day with a 1970s National Geographic, the cover of which featured an article on “The Coming Ice Age!”
This was about 2003. She said the teacher didn’t read the article, but that the other kids thought it was funny.
All of those needles and feces are going to pollute the ocean!
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