Posted on 03/04/2018 7:21:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In less than 100 years, strolling from shop to shop along Commercial Street in Portland or running with your dog on Willard Beach in South Portland could become something folks did in the old days.
Based on the latest tidal trends, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that by the year 2100, those areas will be under at least a foot of seawater at high tide on a calm day.
Under this grim scenario, Willard Beach would disappear, showing up once in a while as a narrow strip of sand at extreme low tides. The indomitable brick buildings on Commercial Street, which harken to Portland’s shipping heyday and draw tourists to the Old Port, would be gone.
Preparing for sea level rise is just one aspect of a proposed joint venture by the neighboring cities to develop climate action and adaptation plans that would be designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
In broad terms, the plans would aim to reduce waste in all aspects of everyday life; increase energy efficiency at home, in government buildings and in the workplace; promote sustainable transportation options throughout the region; and prepare for the various impacts of climate change.
Julie Rosenbach, South Portland’s sustainability director, acknowledged the challenge of building community-wide support for and engagement in the new plans.
“We’re going big,” Rosenbach admitted. But rather than focus on the doom and gloom of climate change, she said, “we’re going to address people’s daily needs and concerns.”
“We’ve already locked ourselves into what’s going to happen,” she said. “With just a foot of sea level rise, we’re going to see 100 high tides of 12 feet or more each year.”
“Resiliency doesn’t have to be competing with development,” Rosenbach said. “It can be working with development.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...
Build the wall.....!!!! Or as they say in San Fran a Dyke.
This is pretty funny to me, born as an Oregonian... was just up visiting last year and made a trip to the beach... down toward Astoria, there had been a ton of new construction and it was in a flood plain of the lower Columnbia river that I have seen underwater sometime between 30 and 50 years ago. Fyi, the river is naturally about 4 miles wide at this point for the unfamiliar, this is the mouth and experiences tidal level changes very similar to the beach, even we did to a lesser extent 50 miles up the river.
All i can say is if you built anywhere in Oregon where an extra foot of water might cause a problem... there is NO hope for you.
What does Oregon have to do with this?
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Yeah my bad people...sorry missed which portland, commented before reading comments, article read like portland oregon...
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
These eviron-MENTAL folks could just move back to California, lowering Portland's carbon footprint in the process. Then again, they could always put people like themselves into L.A. style tent cities for a low-carbon economy like Haiti or Venezuela.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
The Bern will keep his $400,000 lakeside house while the rest of the U.S. can freeze in the dark in L.A.-style tent cities.
We MUST NOT forget to get each of them a nice coloring book and cuddly teddy bear for their new safe place. What were you thinking?
That’s two ugly dudes right there.
Portland Me was a livable town thirty years ago.
It has turned into a cesspool quagmire, which unfortunately still looks better than the leftist shith*les that leftists are leaving when they move here.
Drunk brawls and fights, mentally ill and alcoholic homeless everywhere. All of Southern Maine is a horrorshow.
Sustainability director. Now, there’s a job.
As he lay back in his prison bunk and changed the channel on his black & White T.V. with a long stick.
The Cascadia Subduction Zone produces gigandous earthquakes Richter ~9, every 200 to 500 years.
By 2100, it will have been 400 years since its last major earthquake.
When that occurs, it will raise the water level at Portland’s waterfront by about 50’.
What are these wizards going to do about that?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
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