Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay. Photo source : ©© Yuzu
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Technology giants including Facebook and Google face the prospect of their prestigious Silicon Valley headquarters becoming swamped by water as rising sea levels threaten to submerge much of the property development boom gripping San Francisco and the Bay Area…
Read Full Article, Guardian UK
As U.S. Coastal Cities Swell, Rising Seas Threaten Millions (03-14-2016)
That combination of rising populations and rising seas could see millions of Americans living in homes that flood regularly during the decades ahead, according to a nationwide analysis…
Sea Level Rise Is Predictable. It Will Be Anything From Bad to Awful, Wired (03-14-2016)
Up to 70 Percent of Northeast U.S. Coast May Adapt to Rising Seas, USGS (03-14-2016)
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…
San Franciscans in the Dark About Flood Hazards? Climate Central (06-20-2014)
The Waters are Rising on NASA’s Shores, NASA / Earth Observatory (09-30-2015)
NASA’s Front Porch View of Rising Seas, NASA (09-12-2015)
Too Big to Flood? Megacities Face Future of Major Storm Risk, Yale E360 (01-13-2013)
As economic activity and populations continue to expand in coastal urban areas, particularly in Asia, hundreds of trillions of dollars of infrastructure, industrial and office buildings, and homes are increasingly at risk from intensifying storms and rising sea levels…
