The
OC Register (
Global warming could displace 110,000 on OC coast, report says) reports that
Sea level rise driven by global warming could flood parts of the California coast in coming decades, with Orange County’s among the most vulnerable in the state, a new state-commissioned report says.
The report by an independent Oakland research group, the Pacific Institute, says nearly half a million people statewide — and 110,000 in Orange County — could be at risk by the year 2100 under some climate change scenarios….
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The $335,000 study, requested by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s climate action team and paid for by Caltrans, the state Energy Commission and the Ocean Protection Council, is based on scientific estimates from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Geological Survey on coastal effects from rising sea levels. Those, in turn, were based on work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international team of climate scientists….
I’ve cropped one of the report’s maps to show only Southern California. (See above.)
Looks like Newport Beach will be especially hard hit. That's Republican territory, isn't it? They'll just say the report is bullshit.
My recommendation: they should move OC GOP headquarters and the Newport Beach PD down there near the water—you know, where they shot the
Minnow leaving for that fateful "three-hour tour" on
Gilligan's Island.
The OC Register (Global warming could displace 110,000 on OC coast, report says) reports that
I’ve cropped one of the report’s maps to show only Southern California. (See above.)
Looks like Newport Beach will be especially hard hit. That's Republican territory, isn't it? They'll just say the report is bullshit.
My recommendation: they should move OC GOP headquarters and the Newport Beach PD down there near the water—you know, where they shot the Minnow leaving for that fateful "three-hour tour" on Gilligan's Island.
