Downtown San Francisco and the Bay bridge. Photo source: ©© Ahzut
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The City by the Bay, where bayfront shorelines will continue to experience worsening high tide flooding, where the nearby international airport is among the nation’s most vulnerable to floods, and where Pacific Ocean shoreline erosion could be accelerated by sea level rise, has adopted a first-in-the-nation approach to assessing potential infrastructure risks posed by rising seas…
Read Full Article, Climate Central
Flash Forward 100 Years: Climate Change Scenarios in California’s Bay-Delta, USGS (11-06-2011)
Scientists investigated how California’s interconnected San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the Bay-Delta system) is expected to change from 2010 to 2099 in response to both fast and moderate climate warming scenarios. Results indicate that this area will feel impacts of global climate change in the next century with shifts in its biological communities, rising sea level, and modified water supplies…
King Tides A Preview Of Coming Sea Rise, San Francisco Chronicle (12-30-2013)
Sea levels off the California coast will rise up to 2 feet by 2050 and up to 5.5 feet by 2100, scientific research suggests. Already, sea levels have risen in San Francisco by 8 inches over the past century…
San Francisco Bay Sand Mining Raises Question About Beach Erosion, SF Examiner (11-15-2012)
The sediment in San Francisco Bay, once thought of as a renewable resource, is eroding and being removed much more quickly than nature replenishes it…
San Francisco Bay Sand Mining Alarms Conservationists, San Francisco Gate (12-16-2012)
Dredge mining of shoals near Angel and Alcatraz islands and throughout Suisun Bay is robbing the bay of sand that keeps San Francisco’s Ocean Beach from eroding, according to new research by the U.S. Geological Survey…
Monterey Bay, California: Beach Sand Mining from a National Marine Sanctuary; By Gary Griggs
US West Coast Erosion Spiked In Winter 2009-10, Previewing Likely Future As Climate Changes, USGS
