Sea Level Rise
This is a new page, so check also Arctic, and Global Warming, Water and related pages.
Contents
Overviews
The basics, good overviews and intros to various green topics from Grist, such as Keystone XL pipeline, sea level rise and Geo-engineering, as well as ocean acidification (more on acidification and coral.
Stories/Reports
Sources
Stories
West Coast Sea Level Rise: 6 Inches Expected In California By 2030, Report Finds 6/12
Why So Many Flood Maps Are Still Out of Date 7/13 see also series
US Marshall islands threatened by sea level rise so is US water supply.
More bad news about glaciers — and therefore sea levels 11/12 UPDATE biggest calving ever recorded (video) 12/12. Graphs (and misuse).
Facing climate reality, cities look for ways to adapt 6/13 includes sea level rise.
Saltwater intrusion into underground aquifers where we get well water for cities and farms. overview and images.
Ocean Protection Council has published sea level data from UCSC: Nicole Russell and Dr. Gary Griggs of the University of California, Santa Cruz, recently published a new report titled “Adapting to Sea Level Rise: A Guide for California’s Coastal Communities.” The guidebook is intended to assist state agency staff, and managers and planners in California’s coastal cities and counties in developing sea level rise adaptation plans for coastal communities.
Video
Sea Surge: With more than 40% of the world’s population living in coastal areas, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly hard to ignore. Rising sea levels are endangering infrastructure, homes, and even entire societies. Coral and shellfish are struggling to survive as the waters undergo acidification from CO2. What role do oceans play in the world’s economy? How will the changes be felt and how will communities adapt? Is there anything we can do to slow the tide? Panel includes Brian Fagan, author, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels. see books below. Daily Show.
PBS NewsHour on Southern Ca (video) 3/12.
Arctic Methane: Why The Sea Ice Matters
What Happens to Silicon Valley When Sea Levels Rise?
Funding, Mitigation & Adaptation in California & Beyond 5/16/2013 | Watch video
Can Superstorm Sandy Happen in San Francisco? 5/16/2013 | Watch video.
Audio
Inuit culture threatened by sea level rise (text and audio) 9/10.
San Francisco Bay: SF Bay sea level rise also maps. KQED's Quest. baykeeper. Friends of the the SF Estuary, Save the Bay.
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities. Sea level rise, includes Bay Area. San Francisco Bay is the largest estuary on the Pacific coast of the Americas. Yet it was once much larger – 40% of its waters and wetlands were filled to create real estate. The 29-inch rise of coastal waters predicted by 2050, along with rapid river run-off and flooding due to storm surges, will reclaim some of that land. Among the areas threatened are the airports, Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Financial District. Part 2 on farmers. Part 3: Chuey Cazares has lived all of his 21 years in Alviso, a tiny hamlet jutting into the salt ponds at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay. Part of a close, extended Chicano family, with hundreds of relatives living in town, Chuey works as a deck hand on a shrimp boat off Alviso's shores.
His town's history — and its future — are defined by water. In the 1800's, farmers drained the aquifer, and the land sank thirteen feet below sea level. Then, the conversion of wetlands to salt ponds made the rivers back up during heavy rains and flooded Alviso. Now sea level rise from the Bay and more rain swelling the rivers threaten more frequent flooding. Chuey's family was traumatized by the last big flood in 1983, and although they fear the next one, they don't want to move anywhere else. Meanwhile, Mendel Stuart of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to save Alviso by restoring wetlands. But who is Alviso being saved for? As the flood risk lessens, property values are increasing, making housing in Alviso unaffordable for Chuey and his relatives. And the wetlands conversion has driven his boss's lucrative shrimping business out of the salt ponds.
Sea level rise effect on coastal communities, especially San Pedro. 4/12 (audio).
Books
Brian Fagan, author, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels. Daily Show.
A World Without Ice, a book by Henry Pollack who was a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. Google talk video 2009.
