Global Warming Gets Very, Very Local
It’s estimated that downtown Martinez could be underwater in 100 years.Today is THURSDAY, July 7, 2011. Did you know that in 100 years, it’s estimated that downtown Martinez will be under water? It was news to me, and not everyone believes it, but that was the scenario laid out by Jeremy Lowe of Environmental Science Associates. He was explaining to City Council members on Wednesday why the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, a state agency that regulates conservation and development along the shorelines, might extend its authority beyond its current boundaries. If the sea level rises, so do BCDC’s boundaries, according to an amendment now being discussed by the agency. It’s one of those convoluted issues that involves local, regional and state authority, and according to local attorney and downtown property owner Al Turnbaugh, it represents a BCDC power grab.
Downtown Martinez is about 240 inches above sea level. Over the last one hundred years, sea level rose there less than four inches. No doubt it will accelerate by 6000% sometime next week.
What about Denver?
In the movie 2012, sea level went all the way up to the base of mt Everest
speaking of which, was Costner’s Waterworld the first movie depicting a world almost completely flooded by global warming?
Positive feedback – water spawns more water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpmgO4BTNCc
I’m sure the local Highway Patrol have budgeted for a motor launch replete with “Blues & Twos”.
Well…….. it would get rid of some of the stink there.
Martinez, CA low tide at 1:41 am, 0.32 m
Martinez, CA high tide prediction at 7:00 am, 1.13 m
Sea level change = 810 mm
Time for change = 5hr, 19min = 319 min = 0.000606 years
Rate of sea level rise = 810 mm / 0.000606 years = 1,336,633 mm/year
Compare to pre-sapienstrophic sea level rise of 4inches/century = 0.001 meter/year
That’s a lot more than a 6000% increase…