Here’s How San Francisco is Bracing for Sea Level Rise
Estimated to Impact $48 Billion in Assets
October 24, 2014San Francisco’s Capital Planning Committee (CPC) has adopted what is being called the most comprehensive guidelines in the nation for preparing for the impacts of sea level rise on a city’s infrastructure.
“This is the first time that I’ve seen a city really actively assessing the risks to new public investments,” Jessica Grannis of Georgetown’s Climate Center told VICE News.
The guidelines assume sea level rise of 11 inches, plus or minus 4 inches, by 2050 and as much as 66 inches by 2100.
With roughly seven million people living in the San Francisco Bay Area, the potential for displacement and damage to business and ecosystems is enormous. The Pacific Institute, a think-tank focusing on sustainable development, estimates $48 billion of assets could be impacted in San Francisco alone.
“Over the next 10 years we expect that we are going to be investing $25 billion in public infrastructure in San Francisco,” Brian Strong, Director of San Francisco’s Capital Planning Program, told VICE News.
While fishing for money, Gleick apparently forgot to tell them that neither tide gauges nor satellites show any sea level rise around San Francisco.
Tide gauge in the San Francisco Bay shows no sea level rise for 70 years.
CU satellite sea level data for San Francisco also shows no rise in sea level.
The city government is being defrauded out of tens of billions of dollars, to solve a problem which doesn’t exist.


















