Rising Seas
What will global warming mean to the San Francisco Bay? QUEST explores how sea level rise could effect Bay Area wetlands, following researchers who are taking cores from local marshlands to discover their climate history and potential future. Craig Miller reports.
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Andrea Kissack is Senior Editor for QUEST at KQED Public Radio.
latitude: 37.6876, longitude: -122.237
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It's more like a trillion dollars [$1,000,000,000,000] of infrastructure, counting all the roadways, piers, ports, bridge accesses, etc…
Imagine the bay looking like Highway 5 in Washington after that big storm whenever we have a high tide: intolerable. The permanent solution is to dike and lock the Golden Gate. Incredible side benefit: no more water crisis. It doesn't take much fresh water to keep the bay at its present level of salinity. Since the bay won't have tides, the wetlands will become riparian in seasonality-a natural adaptation. Sea creatures will have to have their own way in and out, but I lost all the engineering specs on that when my iMac crashed and the Zip disks don't work any more.
Are their any alternatives?