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Old Crank

(5,819 posts)
24. The San Francisco area is different.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 03:41 PM
Jan 2025

Even the parts built up with fill have solid bedrock under them. Marina, Foster City. That being said to protect from sea level rise you, at some point will have to put in levies or raise the coastline of the bay. Three feet won't be too bad but you will get salt water intrusion further up the two rivers which feed the area. Decisions on what to save and what to defend will have to be made. And should probably be being made now.
The real problem comes further down the the time line. Some scientists believe that we have baked in somewhere between 100 to 200 ft., or more of sea level rise based on ocean levels when there was this much CO2 in the air before. At 200 feet the vast majorityh of FL is gone. Most of NYC. Pretty much all coastal cities will be compleatly inundated. We have destroyed the world as we knew it. Us living now won't see it happen but our great grandchildren will have to live it.

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Seashore condo owners: leopards are corroding your building's foundation & you don't even know it. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2025 #1
Too few people can, or even want to, connect dots. Thank you for posting this. Attilatheblond Jan 2025 #2
Thinking for oneself... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #3
Ostriches get a bad rap. They aren't sticking their heads in the sand like magas do Attilatheblond Jan 2025 #18
Good point... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #19
Not many even know what a grouse is, so you're ahead of the game! Attilatheblond Jan 2025 #20
I've been thinking about this for years. Yes, GPV Jan 2025 #4
Salt water finds a way. Apologies bronxiteforever Jan 2025 #5
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over PR, for nature cannot be fooled". hatrack Jan 2025 #6
Brilliant Feynman quote. bronxiteforever Jan 2025 #7
Sounds lilke a quote from a Pilot I knew Old Crank Jan 2025 #10
Feynman was brilliant, one of my inspirations. CaptainTruth Jan 2025 #13
Forget 'end of the century' - with Trumpism taking control of America that timetable is 20-30 years max IMO. NoMoreRepugs Jan 2025 #8
If we are privatizing FEMA, can we go on record now Bluetus Jan 2025 #9
That will be great. Old Crank Jan 2025 #12
Come on now. We know that those southern coastal states will expect the blue states to bail them out. erronis Jan 2025 #15
and Again and again, and..... Old Crank Jan 2025 #21
Guess we really don't have a choice. Eventually Mother Nature is going to get her way! erronis Jan 2025 #16
I read about that study where they brought in people from the Nederlands. Old Crank Jan 2025 #11
Most of the state sits on a big bed of karst limestone (think Swiss cheese with more fossils) . . . hatrack Jan 2025 #17
Wonder if the City of San Francisco brought in experts like that Attilatheblond Jan 2025 #22
Damming the Golden Gate would fix that. hunter Jan 2025 #23
The San Francisco area is different. Old Crank Jan 2025 #24
Over 100,000 acres of ghost forests in New Jersey .... The salt water from the Atlantic is killing the coastal ... Botany Jan 2025 #14
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