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 ...
I’m willing to donate a hose or two to speed the process up
“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...”
Gee, that’s too bad !
These climate “scientists” should be required to wear Merlin hats when issuing such forecasts of doom. Heck, their stuff doesn’t even rhyme. Now here’s a guy who can rhyme:
Desperados Under the Eaves
Warren Zevon
I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was staring in my empty coffee cup
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn’t lyin’
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles
I’m gonna drink ‘em up
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill
Sounds like a good start.
Great minds.....
Is Stormy Daniels one of the models making the suggestion?
You build your city on a giant fault line, watch the whole thing burn down a century ago and rebuilt it in the same spot and then watch parts of it shake apart every couple of years and all of a sudden they are worried that people having heat in their homes is bad for their city. Screw them.
WRONG!
When the San Andreas goes the entire continent East of it will fall into the Atlantic.
Needs a good bath and rinsing.
Like I need a reason to look at attractive butts on women.
Honest Honey! I’m just catching up on my reading
California is already financially underwater
The BS is thick on this false news report. My mom worked in a famous restaurant at Fisherman's Wharf in the early 1950s in San Francisco. Decades came and went, and the wharf underwent changes with a tourist boom. But the water level is the same now as it was back then, nearly 70 years have passed. I expect another 70 years to pass without a rise in sea levels. Despite Al Gore's prediction that SF would be underwater ten years ago, the water level is the same as always!
It’s the only way that city will ever be cleaned. But the Pacific Ocean will be severely polluted.
Any leftist organization in the predicted underwater zone that really believes this nonsense should be willing to deed all its property property to the NRA, deed to become effective 71 years from now. I’m sure the NRA would be willing to bear the cost of registering such deeds.
If they end up underwater it will not be because of “Glo-Bull Warming”, but an earthquake which probably will sink the SF area under water.
And thats a problem because...
Because those displaced people will relocate somewhere else. I know we Texans dont want them. No way...
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