Posted on 12/12/2019 11:31:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A new report from the state Legislative Analyst’s Office spotlights a dangerous incongruity in how California approaches two issues involving global warming: the push to reduce emissions of Earth-warming greenhouse gases and what to do about the already-rising seas. While the state has been an international leader on the former, it is woefully behind on the latter. California has not done what it should to prepare for coastal erosion, sea incursions into low-lying areas (including sensitive wetlands), storm-surge flooding of shore communities or the possible need for a forced retreat from imperiled developments at the ocean’s edge.
As the report points out, most of the decisions on how to adapt to rising seas belong to local governments, yet few are paying significant attention - even though estimates suggest a six-inch rise in sea level in the next decade, which, especially during storms and extreme tides, would increase flooding of many beach communities.
Municipalities need to get focused. In the face of such a significant threat, the state needs to work with a sense of urgency with local governments and the California Coastal Commission and other state agencies to forge strategies for countering or adapting to the rising seas.
Scientific studies released this week found that the Greenland ice mass is melting faster than experts previously thought, and that rising temperatures in the Arctic are leading to mass releases of methane from thawing tundra in Alaska, Canada, exposed areas of Greenland and the vast expanse of Siberia.
As we’ve argued before, fighting global warming - both reducing the rise in temperatures and adapting to the effects - will not be cheap. But to do nothing, or too little, would be foolish in the face of what’s undeniably ahead.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I’m not worried.
Those poor Obamas. Why, they’ll be underwater soon.
“California needs to get serious about the problem”
Mass Suicide?
If sea levels are rising, how is it that Englands ‘Broomway’, a path that is flooded daily by high tides, is still in use—after 600 years?
Yes, by all means, let’s do this.
Bad roads, increased crime, bad schools, etc and we’ll spend our time trying to “fix” global warming.
Idiots.
There, fixed that typo in the headline for you.
That is level of the Climate Emergency.
I'm with Obama on this. If someone gave me $12 million, I'd buy a waterfront estate, too.
Mandate that every CA Household keeps their Refrigerator / Freezer Doors wide open 24/7.
What a steaming pile....there’s nothing in the story about current water levels compared to say 10, 15 or 20 years ago, only how things might get bad in the future.
Tidalgate: Climate Alarmists Caught Faking Sea Level Rise
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/12/06/tidalgate-climate-alarmists-caught-faking-sea-level-rise/
But not fast enough that anyone will be able to farm in Greenland, like the Vikings did, any time soon.
Silly. They’re on the other coast.
I'll start worrying when the left's elites stop buying beachfront property, and selling what they now own.
Just turn the power off.
Just how twisted and backward can they get.
Obviously it’s solar cooling and the coming ice age
that is causing the land to sink. Thus, giving the
appearance of rising seas...
Yeah, six or seven inches over the next thousand years will be a real problem...
we could soak up the extra water with some newspaper editorial pages....
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