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You know, as someone once pointed out, gravity is a theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Gravity is testable, though…\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Virtually every major credible scientific organization in the world says climate change is real.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: You’re right. You can’t drop a couple of balls off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prove climate change. That’s why we have to rely on mathematical models to try to figure out where this is all going. And that’s difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not impossible, as some people like to paint it. You know, the people doing the models are not inept. Over the past nearly four years, Climate Watch has interviewed a lot of scientists, attended conferences, read academic papers. 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That doesn’t mean that his work is invalidated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came out recently with a study that basically \u003ca title=\"CW - blog post\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2012/02/15/the-case-of-the-disappearing-sierra-snowfall/\">refuted the idea that there’s been an observable shrinkage in the snow pack\u003c/a> of the Sierra Nevada. And we talked to other scientists who do believe in anthropogenic or human-induced global warming and do believe that the Sierra snow pack is going to be shrinking, who thought that this study was sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s one study in a sea of studies. And you have look at the preponderance of the evidence and not at any one particular study, not any particular year, not even any particular ten years, because even a 10-year trend does not necessarily constitute climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What are some of the metrics scientists have looked at to come to the conclusion that human-caused climate change is real?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: They study temperature records. There have been tidal gauges in place for a long time, looking at sea-level rise, and also augmented now by satellite data that measure with greater accuracy the rate of the rise. They’ve looked at things like ice cores from Greenland and elsewhere which gives us sort of a reverse chronological story of what the climate has done. And you can actually pull one of those ice cores and see the amount of C02 that was in the atmosphere at the time. And what they’ve found is what looks to be a pretty convincing relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the behavior of the Earth’s climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: But there are some who refute that evidence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Absolutely. We’ll get people frequently commenting on our blog who will say the sea level is not rising and that there’s been no warming for the past ten years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I already pointed out, ten years of anything does not constitute a definitive pattern; it’s just too short a time span. It’s this idea of cherry-picking data, which both sides accuse the other of doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to look at the Earth’s climate over time as a really big, complicated jigsaw puzzle. And clearly there are pieces missing. And there are pieces sitting off to the side that aren’t missing, but we don’t quite know how they fit into the puzzle yet. But still, you see enough of the picture to know what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science has yielded at least — as Stanford’s Chris Field of the IPCC puts it — a blurry picture of the future. And the blurry picture is enough to know the general direction we’re heading, even without knowing all of the specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Are there former critics who now acknowledge the reality of climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Richard Muller would be a good example of that. He’s the physicist over at UC Berkeley who was identified with the skeptic camp for a long time. He wasn’t buying a lot of climate change theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He launched a temperature-data audit because he wasn’t convinced that the temperature data being used by the IPCC and NOAA and others was accurate, that there were fundamental issues – they were getting bad data, garbage in, garbage out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went back and did an audit of the program, and when called to Capitol Hill to testify before a mostly-Republican committee, they were very disappointed to hear him say well, actually they’re right. We’ve gone back and the work we’ve done to try to verify the data shows that actually they’re using good data, and warming does appear to be happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What do the polls say about the public’s belief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Well, there’s a certain ebb and flow to the polling, and I think it’s influenced by a lot of things. Some people try to oversimplify the reasons for why people think the way they do about climate change. But a recent poll that we saw found the highest percentage of people who are accepting that climate change is real. The pendulum was, in other words, swinging back towards more people accepting the prevailing climate science, to 62%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the number for the fall of 2011, which, which is the highest it had been since the fall of 2009. And, and then they went on to ask them for reasons for their views, the two biggest factors cited had to do with the weather. Warmer temperatures and general weather changes. About half of the people who were polled said one or the other of those two things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a clear example of “the tyranny of the present,” which is a major factor in the public response to climate change. People tend to believe whatever it is that they’re seeing around them right now, or have observed in the recent past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, if it’s an unusually warm winter, you get more people thinking that the Earth is warming. If you have an unusual cold, snowy winter — and by the way, snow can be very confusing on this point because more snow very often is an artifact of warming — but you have an unusually and snowy winter, then ewer people believe in global warming, and you see the signs start to go out in the snow banks, you know, “what global warming?” and that sort of thing. The public has a very short memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many other reasons that influence people’s views on global warming. Some are ideological. Some are religious. Some are economic. People that have a personal economic stake in or perceive that their ox would be gored by the necessary policy responses to global warming often oppose them and tend to not believe in the concept. Basically, people tend to believe what they want to believe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So is there a concerted campaign to debunk climate change theory?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Yes, and very well documented. There’s a very determined and well-funded attempt to forestall action on climate change by casting doubt on the science. This is a time-honored tradition in our country; think of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=tobacco+institut\">Tobacco Institute\u003c/a>. It’s a page from that playbook, basically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what’s going to happen as a result of global warming?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: I can tell you that there are a certain amount of impacts already baked in, no pun intended. Because, even if we didn’t burn one more lump of coal, scientists say there’s still a warming trend that would probably continue for hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was determined that the worst impacts of global warming could probably be avoided if we could prevent global average temperatures rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius or 3 ½ degrees Fahrenheit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so a bunch of governments came up with this idea to agree to trying to prevent temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees. So this is kind of the new tack now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, there’s no evidence that any policies being put in place can actually achieve this. And there’s some concern now from people like Jim Hansen, a somewhat controversial figure because he’s, you know, kind of crossed that line from scientist to activist. But he’s a smart guy with a lot of smart people working for him. He’s expressed concern of late that even if we were able to stop the temperature rise at 2 degrees, it wouldn’t be sufficient to avoid some of these severe outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Such as?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Depends on where you are. In California, for example, the most I think significant impacts will be in terms of availability of water. I do think that the snow pack will shrink; the melt will come earlier in the spring. Run-off will occur sooner and in greater pulses. So we won’t get the nice even distribution from the so-called frozen reservoir that we’ve enjoyed in past years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s going to be problems with how to get the water where it’s needed when it’s needed. Most fire ecologists and climatologists, I think, agree that the severity of wildfires is going to be an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a big effect would be rising sea levels which, again, there’s a range of predictions of how much the sea will rise between now and, say, 2050 or the end of this century. But the planning parameter is 16 inches by 2050 and 55 inches by the end of the century, both of which are significant. And these estimates don’t seem to go down with the addition of more data. They seem to go up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much depends on how rapidly the polar ice melts. It’s hard to predict that. But a certain amount of sea level rise is due to simple thermal expansion. If you heat up a molecule of water, it gets bigger. And more severe weather events push those bigger molecules farther and farther inland during high tides and storm events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think it’s clear there will be more coastal erosion than there has been in the past. And more inundation of low-lying coastal and Bay land areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Are the severe weather events such as the tornadoes we’ve been experiencing connected to climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: In my opinion the thing that’s finally going to convince people that something is going on is severe weather. That might not be the biggest factor in California, but I think it’s going to be the biggest factor throughout most of the country and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by severe weather, I’m including things like prolonged severe droughts–if you look at what we recently saw in Texas, for example. I think already people are looking around and realizing that something is going on. And that’s why you’re starting to see the polling numbers move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the direct linkage between tornadoes and climate change, some severe weather events are more easily linked than others. The state of the science right now has made a pretty strong link between heavy precipitation events and global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with tornadoes, the last time we interviewed Jane Lubchenko, the head of NOAA, she was saying and I’ve since had that kind of reconfirmed that tornadoes actually are one thing that there isn’t a very clear link to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=hurrican+irene\">Hurricane Irene\u003c/a> from 2011 may be a glimpse of the future. We’ve always measured hurricane strength by wind speed. And I think what we’re seeing is the new signature of hurricanes, which is not wind speed but precipitation. It’s the amount of sheer water in them. You know, as the oceans have warmed, there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere. And it’s waiting to fall out in these major storm events. And there were places along the hurricane path where they, along the track of that storm, which saw like a foot of rain in a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that’s a change that we’re going to be observing more and more. You know, in 2011 there were about a dozen weather-related disasters in the United States alone that cost more than $1 billion in damage. You can bet the insurance industry is taking a look at this. The insurance industry does not deny that the climate is changing. And doesn’t particularly deny the reasons why, either. And they’re paying close attention to this because it’s potentially going to be a huge cost for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what’s the stumbling block to getting more people to believe this is real?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Part of the problem is that scientists are notoriously poor communicators and they need to do better. Just recently I was watching Jane Lubchenko testify on Capitol Hill. And California Republican Dana Rohrabacher rolls out this GAO study where they had found that a large percentage of NOAA’s weather data stations around the country were in sub-optimal locations, and that might be affecting the quality of the data we’re getting from them. And she really didn’t have an answer for it. She gave a very poor answer when confronted with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are substantial efforts underway right now inside organizations like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aaas.org/\">American Association for the Advancement of Science\u003c/a> to train young scientists coming up, grad students, and the people who are going to be the scientific leaders of tomorrow, to be better communicators. Because they’re realizing how very important this is.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Virtually ever major, credible scientific organization in the world. It’s not just the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Organizations like the National Academy of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science. And that’s echoed in most countries around the world. All of the most credible, most prestigious scientific organizations accept the fundamental findings of the IPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last comprehensive report from the IPCC, based on research, came out in 2007. And at that time, they said in this report, which is known as AR-4, that there is “very high confidence” that the net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are very careful, unusually careful, about how they put things. But then they say “very likely,” or “very high confidence,” they’re talking 90%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So it’s not 100%?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: In the realm of science; there’s virtually never 100% certainty about anything. You know, as someone once pointed out, gravity is a theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Gravity is testable, though…\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Virtually every major credible scientific organization in the world says climate change is real.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: You’re right. You can’t drop a couple of balls off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prove climate change. That’s why we have to rely on mathematical models to try to figure out where this is all going. And that’s difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not impossible, as some people like to paint it. You know, the people doing the models are not inept. Over the past nearly four years, Climate Watch has interviewed a lot of scientists, attended conferences, read academic papers. To me, as what you might call an informed observer, the vast preponderance of scientific evidence supports this notion that the Earth is warming and that human activity is a significant cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Are there legitimate debunkers of this proposition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Certainly there are legitimate scientists on the other side of the question. If you take, for example, a guy by the name of \u003ca title=\"Wiki - John Christy\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christy\">John Christy\u003c/a> from the University of Alabama, who is very strongly identified with climate change skeptics. That doesn’t mean that his work is invalidated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came out recently with a study that basically \u003ca title=\"CW - blog post\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2012/02/15/the-case-of-the-disappearing-sierra-snowfall/\">refuted the idea that there’s been an observable shrinkage in the snow pack\u003c/a> of the Sierra Nevada. And we talked to other scientists who do believe in anthropogenic or human-induced global warming and do believe that the Sierra snow pack is going to be shrinking, who thought that this study was sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s one study in a sea of studies. And you have look at the preponderance of the evidence and not at any one particular study, not any particular year, not even any particular ten years, because even a 10-year trend does not necessarily constitute climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What are some of the metrics scientists have looked at to come to the conclusion that human-caused climate change is real?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: They study temperature records. There have been tidal gauges in place for a long time, looking at sea-level rise, and also augmented now by satellite data that measure with greater accuracy the rate of the rise. They’ve looked at things like ice cores from Greenland and elsewhere which gives us sort of a reverse chronological story of what the climate has done. And you can actually pull one of those ice cores and see the amount of C02 that was in the atmosphere at the time. And what they’ve found is what looks to be a pretty convincing relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the behavior of the Earth’s climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: But there are some who refute that evidence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Absolutely. We’ll get people frequently commenting on our blog who will say the sea level is not rising and that there’s been no warming for the past ten years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I already pointed out, ten years of anything does not constitute a definitive pattern; it’s just too short a time span. It’s this idea of cherry-picking data, which both sides accuse the other of doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to look at the Earth’s climate over time as a really big, complicated jigsaw puzzle. And clearly there are pieces missing. And there are pieces sitting off to the side that aren’t missing, but we don’t quite know how they fit into the puzzle yet. But still, you see enough of the picture to know what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science has yielded at least — as Stanford’s Chris Field of the IPCC puts it — a blurry picture of the future. And the blurry picture is enough to know the general direction we’re heading, even without knowing all of the specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Are there former critics who now acknowledge the reality of climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Richard Muller would be a good example of that. He’s the physicist over at UC Berkeley who was identified with the skeptic camp for a long time. He wasn’t buying a lot of climate change theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He launched a temperature-data audit because he wasn’t convinced that the temperature data being used by the IPCC and NOAA and others was accurate, that there were fundamental issues – they were getting bad data, garbage in, garbage out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went back and did an audit of the program, and when called to Capitol Hill to testify before a mostly-Republican committee, they were very disappointed to hear him say well, actually they’re right. We’ve gone back and the work we’ve done to try to verify the data shows that actually they’re using good data, and warming does appear to be happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What do the polls say about the public’s belief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Well, there’s a certain ebb and flow to the polling, and I think it’s influenced by a lot of things. Some people try to oversimplify the reasons for why people think the way they do about climate change. But a recent poll that we saw found the highest percentage of people who are accepting that climate change is real. The pendulum was, in other words, swinging back towards more people accepting the prevailing climate science, to 62%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the number for the fall of 2011, which, which is the highest it had been since the fall of 2009. And, and then they went on to ask them for reasons for their views, the two biggest factors cited had to do with the weather. Warmer temperatures and general weather changes. About half of the people who were polled said one or the other of those two things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a clear example of “the tyranny of the present,” which is a major factor in the public response to climate change. People tend to believe whatever it is that they’re seeing around them right now, or have observed in the recent past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, if it’s an unusually warm winter, you get more people thinking that the Earth is warming. If you have an unusual cold, snowy winter — and by the way, snow can be very confusing on this point because more snow very often is an artifact of warming — but you have an unusually and snowy winter, then ewer people believe in global warming, and you see the signs start to go out in the snow banks, you know, “what global warming?” and that sort of thing. The public has a very short memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many other reasons that influence people’s views on global warming. Some are ideological. Some are religious. Some are economic. People that have a personal economic stake in or perceive that their ox would be gored by the necessary policy responses to global warming often oppose them and tend to not believe in the concept. 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Because, even if we didn’t burn one more lump of coal, scientists say there’s still a warming trend that would probably continue for hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was determined that the worst impacts of global warming could probably be avoided if we could prevent global average temperatures rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius or 3 ½ degrees Fahrenheit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so a bunch of governments came up with this idea to agree to trying to prevent temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees. So this is kind of the new tack now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, there’s no evidence that any policies being put in place can actually achieve this. And there’s some concern now from people like Jim Hansen, a somewhat controversial figure because he’s, you know, kind of crossed that line from scientist to activist. But he’s a smart guy with a lot of smart people working for him. He’s expressed concern of late that even if we were able to stop the temperature rise at 2 degrees, it wouldn’t be sufficient to avoid some of these severe outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Such as?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: Depends on where you are. In California, for example, the most I think significant impacts will be in terms of availability of water. I do think that the snow pack will shrink; the melt will come earlier in the spring. Run-off will occur sooner and in greater pulses. So we won’t get the nice even distribution from the so-called frozen reservoir that we’ve enjoyed in past years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s going to be problems with how to get the water where it’s needed when it’s needed. Most fire ecologists and climatologists, I think, agree that the severity of wildfires is going to be an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a big effect would be rising sea levels which, again, there’s a range of predictions of how much the sea will rise between now and, say, 2050 or the end of this century. But the planning parameter is 16 inches by 2050 and 55 inches by the end of the century, both of which are significant. And these estimates don’t seem to go down with the addition of more data. They seem to go up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much depends on how rapidly the polar ice melts. It’s hard to predict that. But a certain amount of sea level rise is due to simple thermal expansion. If you heat up a molecule of water, it gets bigger. And more severe weather events push those bigger molecules farther and farther inland during high tides and storm events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think it’s clear there will be more coastal erosion than there has been in the past. And more inundation of low-lying coastal and Bay land areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Are the severe weather events such as the tornadoes we’ve been experiencing connected to climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MILLER\u003c/strong>: In my opinion the thing that’s finally going to convince people that something is going on is severe weather. That might not be the biggest factor in California, but I think it’s going to be the biggest factor throughout most of the country and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by severe weather, I’m including things like prolonged severe droughts–if you look at what we recently saw in Texas, for example. I think already people are looking around and realizing that something is going on. And that’s why you’re starting to see the polling numbers move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the direct linkage between tornadoes and climate change, some severe weather events are more easily linked than others. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/04/sf-sailing-races-canceled-coast-guard-after-deadly-yacht-incident\">Reuters\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/27/ocean-boat-races-halted-after-fatal-calif-crash/\">AP\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/04/sf-sailing-races-canceled-coast-guard-after-deadly-yacht-incident\">Chronicle\u003c/a> are reporting that the Coast Guard has put a halt to two upcoming boat races, pending a safety review stemming from the Apr 14 accident off the Farallon Islands in which one crew member was killed and the other four are missing and presumed dead. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8633099\">Video: Crashed yacht towed by helicopter\u003c/a> (KGO)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/bryan-chong-san-francisco_n_1457559.html?ref=san-francisco\">Bryan Chong, San Francisco Yacht Accident Survivor, Speaks Out\u003c/a> (AP)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The two races affected are the Offshore Yacht Racing Association Duxship Race on Saturday and the Singlehanded Sailing Society Farallons Race on May 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard is calling this a “safety stand down.” Coast Guard spokesperson Mike Lutz tells us “we’re working closely with race organizers to implement alternative courses for those impacted offshore races. All the other races that stay within the demarcation line – the imaginary line that runs from Point Bonita down to Lands End – all those other races that are inside of the Bay are not affected whatsoever.” He said the cancellation of the races was part of a “working together, a team effort, to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to ensure the safety of life at sea.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sailing magazine Latitude 38 put up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2012-04-26#.T5rR4VJ62So\">special report\u003c/a> yesterday that quotes an official from the local yacht racing assocation as saying she was “blindsided” by the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, Captain Cindy Stowe, USCG Captain of the Port for Sector San Francisco, has temporarily suspended all marine event permits for offshore races in the wake of April 14’s Full Crew Farallones Race tragedy in which five sailors perished… \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Muñoz [Executive Director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.yra.org/\">Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>] was surprised by last night’s call from Stowe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was blindsided. On Tuesday we had a very productive, three-hour meeting with the Waterways Division of the Coast Guard, the department that oversees our offshore permits. We left the meeting feeling there were no problems with the Duxship this weekend.” As it stands, the YRA is frantically trying to determine if they should just cancel the race altogether or run an alternate version, which would allow racers to go as far as Mile Rock before turning back to the Bay. “It’s hard to put together a race in 48 hours,” Muñoz said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A follow-up to the post says…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Never before has the Coast Guard canceled permits after an ocean tragedy — not after the infamous 1982 Doublehanded Farallones, in which four racers died; not after 2008’s Doublehanded Lightship in which two men aboard Daisy died; not after the J/80 Heatwave lost her keel in 2009’s Doublehanded Farallones, leaving two men clinging to the hull until they were rescued. The action is especially puzzling this time around, considering an independent investigation by the SFPD determined that there was no evidence of negligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undoubtedly many sailors are wondering why they shouldn’t just get together for a nice long daysail out to Duxbury Reef this Saturday, coincidentally leaving around the time the race would have started. “We would need to not know about that,” noted Muñoz, explaining that the YRA can’t run a race that doesn’t have a permit. We would suggest that everyone take a deep breath before getting too riled up over the situation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>More \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=8638192\">unhappy racers quoted in this KGO article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Andy Newell, President of the Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay told KQED’s Paul Lancour that the organization understands the Coast Guard’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the folks in the sailing community will grumble no matter what happens; there are people who grumble at the current set of rules we have…they’ll grumble that the wind is too strong, that the water’s cold. The YRA is cetainly disappointed we’re not going to go out on the water this weekend, but we understand why and we certainly respect that decision…Frankly, the Coast Guard is there to pick us up out of the water, and we feel like we need to hold up our end of the law and do anything we can to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, The Offshore Yacht Racing Association says the Duxship race will \u003ca href=\"http://www.yra.org/OYRA/docs/SailingInstructions/Duxship-2012.pdf\">take place on Saturday with an altered ‘in-the-Bay’ course\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“”We will have an ocean race this Saturday,” association director Jim Quanci told Latitude 39. “The sole ocean mark will be the Bonita Channel Buoy – sticking our nose back out into the ocean and then back to the Bay, finishing at Encinal YC – which the Coast Guard has ‘just’ approved. There will also be some sort of social activity after the finish, likely along the lines of a pot luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressure-drop.us/forums/showthread.php?2476-USCG-canceling-Ocean-Racing-!&p=23151\">discussion about this on the Pressure Drop sailing web site\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the way, if you haven’t yet seen this \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8633099&pid=null\">video\u003c/a> of a helicopter towing the Low Speed Chase, the yacht that crashed a couple of weeks ago, over land and sea — it’s quite visually compelling if you can manage to divorce it from its tragic context…\u003c/p>\n\n",
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California has 35 regional air districts, which regulate businesses and industrial facilities. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that we have a long way to go in some of these air districts, but we have made a lot of progress,” said Kenneth Koyama, executive director of the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association, which published the report. “Some districts have gone down to one unhealthy day in the past year for air-quality purposes, and others have actually had zero unhealthy days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also outlines the local conditions that create air-quality problems and some ongoing efforts to address them. In the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, for example, water diversion to Los Angeles from tributaries of the Owens and Mono lakes have resulted in exposed lake beds that contribute to particulate matter pollution in the region. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Smile.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-59709\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Smile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere in California...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's such a California story. UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium sits on an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/video-uc-berkeley-stadium-birds-eye-view-of-reconstruction/\">earthquake fault line\u003c/a>. It's going to cost about $321 million to renovate. 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Now it has become clear that the university will have to borrow the vast majority of the money.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If revenue projections fall short and don't cover the bond payments, the shortfall would come from campus funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state legislature last year slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from the University of California system, tuition at UC schools \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107151630/a\">rose\u003c/a>, and then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/28/live-reporting-from-uc-regents-teleconference/\">rose\u003c/a> again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody argues about the need for seismic upgrades, especially after those Berkeley shakers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/20/earthquake/\">just a few months ago\u003c/a>, one of which was centered right near the stadium. But some may question whether the university can afford $270 million for a football team right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the loudest critic is Brian Barsky, a computer science professor who's written repeatedly in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/tag/brian-barsky/\">Daily Cal\u003c/a> about funding for collegiate athletics. He quoted as saying it's \"disconcerting that the university may be gambling with student fees and other academic funds to cover a massive financial commitment for a football stadium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Journal does acknowledge the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2011/05/03/Pac-12.aspx\">Pac-12 television-rights deal\u003c/a>, expected to nearly double Cal's broadcast revenue before expenses. Will it be enough for the athletic department to wean itself from university support? What's that cliche? Only time will tell...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE: \u003c/strong> Herb Berenson of UC Berkeley contacted us after this post to offer some Bear Perspective. The Assistant Athletic Director, and the guy in charge of athletic communications writes the Wall Street Journal article contained \"a number of errors,\" which he itemized thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is the Memorial Stadium project being financed? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt has always been the intention to use external financing for the renovation and seismic retrofit of Memorial Stadium. This is common practice in financing many types of capital projects, from large endeavors, such as the Memorial Stadium construction, to smaller ones, including home purchases. The Athletic Department, using non-public funds, will be able to make its debt payments through an increase in operating revenue generated from such avenues as the Endowment Seating Program (ESP) seat sales, enhanced Pac-12 media rights, the institution of a facility fee and donor philanthropy. It should be noted that, to date, the project has been financed using debt at lower interest rates and longer maturities than initially modeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cal has received $31 million in cash from ESP sales to date. Does this mean the $270 million goal for the program is not realistic? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 85 percent of ESP participants have chosen to spread their payments over time, which means they are paying annually up to 30 years. As of December 31, Cal had received $31 million in cash from ESP sales, which corresponds to a total projected value of over $144 million to be paid by the end of the payment contracts. The original goal of $270 million remains. The plan has always been for the Athletic Department to use its operating revenues to make debt payments on an annual basis over the next 30-35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $31 million received also comes four months before the reopening of the stadium. We anticipate the number will assuredly grow as kickoff for the first game of the year approaches and as the football season gets underway. The goal is to sell 90 percent of the available capacity in the ESP sections, and that goal is targeted for June 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will the campus have to account for any Athletic Department shortfall? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo central campus funds have been used to finance this project, and it is intended to be managed so that none will be. The Athletic Department and university have gone to extraordinary lengths to inform interested parties about the financing model, including posting on Calbears.com (see \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\">Facilities Project Summary\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\">ESP Financial Reports\u003c/a>). 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But some may question whether the university can afford $270 million for a football team right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the loudest critic is Brian Barsky, a computer science professor who's written repeatedly in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/tag/brian-barsky/\">Daily Cal\u003c/a> about funding for collegiate athletics. He quoted as saying it's \"disconcerting that the university may be gambling with student fees and other academic funds to cover a massive financial commitment for a football stadium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Journal does acknowledge the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2011/05/03/Pac-12.aspx\">Pac-12 television-rights deal\u003c/a>, expected to nearly double Cal's broadcast revenue before expenses. Will it be enough for the athletic department to wean itself from university support? What's that cliche? Only time will tell...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE: \u003c/strong> Herb Berenson of UC Berkeley contacted us after this post to offer some Bear Perspective. The Assistant Athletic Director, and the guy in charge of athletic communications writes the Wall Street Journal article contained \"a number of errors,\" which he itemized thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is the Memorial Stadium project being financed? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt has always been the intention to use external financing for the renovation and seismic retrofit of Memorial Stadium. This is common practice in financing many types of capital projects, from large endeavors, such as the Memorial Stadium construction, to smaller ones, including home purchases. The Athletic Department, using non-public funds, will be able to make its debt payments through an increase in operating revenue generated from such avenues as the Endowment Seating Program (ESP) seat sales, enhanced Pac-12 media rights, the institution of a facility fee and donor philanthropy. It should be noted that, to date, the project has been financed using debt at lower interest rates and longer maturities than initially modeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cal has received $31 million in cash from ESP sales to date. Does this mean the $270 million goal for the program is not realistic? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 85 percent of ESP participants have chosen to spread their payments over time, which means they are paying annually up to 30 years. As of December 31, Cal had received $31 million in cash from ESP sales, which corresponds to a total projected value of over $144 million to be paid by the end of the payment contracts. The original goal of $270 million remains. The plan has always been for the Athletic Department to use its operating revenues to make debt payments on an annual basis over the next 30-35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $31 million received also comes four months before the reopening of the stadium. We anticipate the number will assuredly grow as kickoff for the first game of the year approaches and as the football season gets underway. The goal is to sell 90 percent of the available capacity in the ESP sections, and that goal is targeted for June 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will the campus have to account for any Athletic Department shortfall? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo central campus funds have been used to finance this project, and it is intended to be managed so that none will be. The Athletic Department and university have gone to extraordinary lengths to inform interested parties about the financing model, including posting on Calbears.com (see \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\">Facilities Project Summary\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\">ESP Financial Reports\u003c/a>). This analysis suggests that even under a highly conservative, worst-case scenario, the project does not face a financial problem until at least 2038, and that case assumes that no intervening action is taken over the next 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did the university pledge tuition revenue to obtain debt financing at a lower interest rate? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs is standard practice for debt issuance in higher education, all forms of university revenue, including tuition revenue, are pledged.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not you think the project is a good idea, I think you'll agree it's worth hearing from all sides, at length.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday night for four yacht crew members who went missing off the Northern California coast after a weekend racing accident and has no plans to resume it, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/millvalley/ci_20402905/fatal-yacht-race-accident-farallones-stuns-marin-sailing\">\u003cstrong>Marin yacht club mourns\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2012/04/15/bat-girl-who-greeted-bonds-after-500th-homer-among-missing-sailors/\">\u003cstrong>Bat girl who greeted Bonds after 500th homer among missing \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>(The Splash)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Petty Officer Caleb Critchfield said the search was reluctantly halted at sundown Sunday after aircraft and boats searched more than 5,000 square miles of ocean over more than 30 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a window of survivability and we searched well beyond that window,” he told The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crewmembers, Alan Cahill, of Tiburon, Calif.; Jordan Fromm, of San Rafael, Calif.; Elmer Morrissey, of Ireland; Alexis Busch, of Larkspur, Calif. _ were thrown into the 50-degree waters when a series of disastrous events caused their sailboat to run aground during a race Saturday near the Farallon Islands, about 25 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busch was a bat girl for the San Francisco Giants, according to San Francisco Chronicle writer \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2012/04/15/bat-girl-who-greeted-bonds-after-500th-homer-among-missing-sailors/\">Henry Schulman\u003c/a>. She is the “heart” of the minor league baseball team the San Rafael Pacifics, her colleague there, Zoe Fritz, told KQED intern Chelsea Hawkins. “Baseball was her main thing,” said Fritz. “She kept two baseballs on her desk and she said it gave her the most inspiration through the day.”\u003cimg alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The body of 46-year-old Marc Kasanin of Belvedere, Calif., was pulled from the water hours after the accident. The three remaining crew members survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Saturday’s accident brought rare tragedy to the august race and the San Francisco Bay area’s large sailing community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One crew member died and four others went missing after being swept into the sea after two strong waves swept them from their boat near the rocky Farallon Islands, the halfway point of the 54-mile race that began at daybreak in San Francisco and had 49 entrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“There’s a window of survivability and we searched well beyond that window.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Yacht Club managed the race for the Offshore Yacht Racing Association and where the yacht involved in the accident, the 38-foot Low Speed Chase, was based, club director Ed Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The race community is a very tight-knit group of people, and obviously this tragedy has reached far and wide around the world,” Lynch said. “It’s an event that will give everybody pause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low Speed Chase’s owner and captain, 41-year-old James Bradford of Chicago, was among the three survivors whom the U.S. Coast Guard, assisted by National Guard helicopters, pulled from one of the islands about 300 feet from their damaged vessel, Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford and another crew member were briefly treated at a hospital, while the third survivor was admitted overnight with a broken leg and contusions, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven men and one woman on board ranged in age from their 20s to their 40s, according to Lynch. He said the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office has identified Kasanin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch said the yacht club, which is located just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco in Belvedere, has 1,400 members and is a place where “lawyers, carpenters and doctors can all have a beer together and talk about their love of sailing.” But Saturday’s race was likely to attract the most dedicated recreational sailors, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Farallon Islands are a destination to go and sail around, and it is certainly some of the toughest conditions around in a sailing environment,” Lynch said. “It’s not for everybody, but for the people who do it, it’s a thrill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions during Saturday’s race were typically rough, but Low Speed Chase ran into trouble when it was broadsided by a large wave and some crew members were swept overboard, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the boat was turning around to get them, a second wave flung all but one of the remaining crew members into the water and the yacht aground, Lynch said. At least one other boat in the race witnessed the accident, but was unable to render aid without endangering its crew, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vessel master told investigators the yacht was rolled several times by the waves, the Coast Guard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Mayday call went out at about 3 p.m. PDT on Saturday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Levi Read said. Three helicopters, a surveillance plane, two patrol boats and a larger cutter were visually searching a 15-mile by 30-mile swath of water around the islands, as well as shoreline areas Sunday for the missing crew members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire crew was believed to have been wearing life vests and foul weather gear, which made rescuers optimistic they may find more survivors, Read said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t have all the assets we have out there now if we weren’t hopeful,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farallon Islands are a series of steep, rocky outcroppings visible from San Francisco on a clear day and uninhabited except for a manned research station. Part of a national wildlife refuge and closed to the public, the islands are home to vast quantities of sea birds and are surrounded by waters rich with seals and sea lions, and sharks that feed on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search crews have encountered plenty of wildlife in their search for the missing crew members, but have not reported seeing any sharks that would pose additional danger to anyone stuck in the water, Read said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low Speed Chase remains grounded on one of the islands while the search for survivors continues, he said. Search crews reported that the boat is intact, although Read said it is probably wrecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R. David Britt, a University of California, Davis chemist who skippered his sailboat, Split Water, in the Full Crew Farallones Race for the third time on Saturday, described the sailing out by the islands that day as “pretty intense.” Swells nearing 20-feet-high were breaking far enough from the craggy outcroppings that Britt says he steered farther around them than he otherwise might to avoid getting swamped by a wave or dashed onto the rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst thing is to have a wave break on you,” he said. “You can go up and down, up and down, but if a wave breaks on the cockpit on top of the crew, that’s how somebody could get swept out of the boat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Britt thinks he was not far ahead of Low Speed Chase as they rounded the islands, and thought it strange when he looked back later and no longer saw his competitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, people dropped roses and tulips by the entrance of the San Francisco Yacht Club, which hosted a members-only candlelight vigil and prayer service Sunday evening to honor the missing crew members and the one who died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne Kasanin, the mother of the sailor who died, attended the service and was touched by how many people knew her son, who started sailing at age 7 and lived his whole life on the cove where the yacht club is located. He was a well-known local artist whose landscapes in acrylic and oil reflected his love of the water, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a very dear son to me and a tremendous help, and I’m going to miss him very much,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford and the other two survivors attended the vigil, but were too distraught to talk about their experience, Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Club member Brian Swift said that even though sailors are aware of the dangers of racing in open ocean, “what everybody is feeling is utter shock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay area is home to a vibrant sailing scene, with more than 35 yacht clubs ringing the bay’s chilly, wind-whipped waters. Due to steady winds, easy access and a picturesque backdrop featuring the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and Coit Tower, the city of San Francisco was chosen to host the 2013 America’s Cup, the sport’s marquee event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are dangers, however, such as strong tides and commercial shipping. Those dangers, including strong winds, increase when sailors are on the open ocean beyond the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results from last year’s Full Crew Farallones Race posted on the web site of the Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay shows that Bradford entered Low Speed Chase in the event, but did not finish it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The three remaining crew members survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Saturday’s accident brought rare tragedy to the august race and the San Francisco Bay area’s large sailing community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One crew member died and four others went missing after being swept into the sea after two strong waves swept them from their boat near the rocky Farallon Islands, the halfway point of the 54-mile race that began at daybreak in San Francisco and had 49 entrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“There’s a window of survivability and we searched well beyond that window.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Yacht Club managed the race for the Offshore Yacht Racing Association and where the yacht involved in the accident, the 38-foot Low Speed Chase, was based, club director Ed Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The race community is a very tight-knit group of people, and obviously this tragedy has reached far and wide around the world,” Lynch said. “It’s an event that will give everybody pause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low Speed Chase’s owner and captain, 41-year-old James Bradford of Chicago, was among the three survivors whom the U.S. Coast Guard, assisted by National Guard helicopters, pulled from one of the islands about 300 feet from their damaged vessel, Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford and another crew member were briefly treated at a hospital, while the third survivor was admitted overnight with a broken leg and contusions, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven men and one woman on board ranged in age from their 20s to their 40s, according to Lynch. He said the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office has identified Kasanin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch said the yacht club, which is located just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco in Belvedere, has 1,400 members and is a place where “lawyers, carpenters and doctors can all have a beer together and talk about their love of sailing.” But Saturday’s race was likely to attract the most dedicated recreational sailors, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Farallon Islands are a destination to go and sail around, and it is certainly some of the toughest conditions around in a sailing environment,” Lynch said. “It’s not for everybody, but for the people who do it, it’s a thrill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions during Saturday’s race were typically rough, but Low Speed Chase ran into trouble when it was broadsided by a large wave and some crew members were swept overboard, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the boat was turning around to get them, a second wave flung all but one of the remaining crew members into the water and the yacht aground, Lynch said. At least one other boat in the race witnessed the accident, but was unable to render aid without endangering its crew, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vessel master told investigators the yacht was rolled several times by the waves, the Coast Guard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Mayday call went out at about 3 p.m. PDT on Saturday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Levi Read said. Three helicopters, a surveillance plane, two patrol boats and a larger cutter were visually searching a 15-mile by 30-mile swath of water around the islands, as well as shoreline areas Sunday for the missing crew members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire crew was believed to have been wearing life vests and foul weather gear, which made rescuers optimistic they may find more survivors, Read said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t have all the assets we have out there now if we weren’t hopeful,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farallon Islands are a series of steep, rocky outcroppings visible from San Francisco on a clear day and uninhabited except for a manned research station. Part of a national wildlife refuge and closed to the public, the islands are home to vast quantities of sea birds and are surrounded by waters rich with seals and sea lions, and sharks that feed on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search crews have encountered plenty of wildlife in their search for the missing crew members, but have not reported seeing any sharks that would pose additional danger to anyone stuck in the water, Read said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low Speed Chase remains grounded on one of the islands while the search for survivors continues, he said. Search crews reported that the boat is intact, although Read said it is probably wrecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R. David Britt, a University of California, Davis chemist who skippered his sailboat, Split Water, in the Full Crew Farallones Race for the third time on Saturday, described the sailing out by the islands that day as “pretty intense.” Swells nearing 20-feet-high were breaking far enough from the craggy outcroppings that Britt says he steered farther around them than he otherwise might to avoid getting swamped by a wave or dashed onto the rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst thing is to have a wave break on you,” he said. “You can go up and down, up and down, but if a wave breaks on the cockpit on top of the crew, that’s how somebody could get swept out of the boat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Britt thinks he was not far ahead of Low Speed Chase as they rounded the islands, and thought it strange when he looked back later and no longer saw his competitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, people dropped roses and tulips by the entrance of the San Francisco Yacht Club, which hosted a members-only candlelight vigil and prayer service Sunday evening to honor the missing crew members and the one who died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne Kasanin, the mother of the sailor who died, attended the service and was touched by how many people knew her son, who started sailing at age 7 and lived his whole life on the cove where the yacht club is located. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62304\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/gradyranch.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-62304\" title=\"gradyranch\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/gradyranch-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's rendering of the proposed Grady Ranch. (Courtesy Skywalker Properties Ltd.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist's rendering of the proposed Grady Ranch. (Courtesy Skywalker Properties Ltd.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Marinites are treating George Lucas like he's Count Dooku and he's just given the order to assassinate Queen Amidala. (Okay -- Worst. Lead. Ever.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seriously, there's quite a to-do going on up there over Lucas' now- scuttled plan to build a new production facility in a rural part of the county. After abandoning the development because of opposition from the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowners Association, Marin County supervisors urged Lucas to reconsider. Yesterday, however, \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/sananselmo/ci_20383618/george-lucas-aide-says-grady-ranch-studio-decision\">an official for Lucasfilm told the Marin Independent Journal that the decision was final\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You asked if Lucasfilm would reconsider. Unfortunately the answer is no,\" said Lynne Hale, the company's director of communications. \"We truly appreciate the outpouring of support over the last 24 hours but based on our experience we realize that even with the support of the majority, the minority has the ability to drag the process out to the point it makes it impossible to do business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's Forum show on KQED Public Radio addressed the issue, with guests Steve Kinsey, president of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/sanrafael/ci_20390742/marin-supervisor-urges-george-lucas-supporters-rally-tuesday\">wants the project to go forward\u003c/a>, Liz Dale, president of the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowners Association, which opposes the development, and Nels Johnson, reporter for the Marin Independent Journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Host Dave Iverson\u003c/strong>: George Lucas and Lucasfilm had long wanted to build a new production facility in rural Marin County, not far from the company’s existing Skywalker Ranch Studio. The project would have added jobs and additional tax revenue for the county, but neighborhood and environmental concerns have stalled development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February the county’s planning commission gave its blessing but some local land owners appealed to the Board of Supervisors, prompting further delays. And this week Lucasfilm said never mind, they’d head elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Nels Johnson, tell us what reaction is right now in San Rafael and elsewhere in Marin County. Was this a shock?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nels Johnson\u003c/strong>: Well I think a lot of people are shocked and dismayed. There’s been an outpouring of support it would appear, at least from the emails we’ve been getting – support for Lucasfilm. And dismay that neighbors have helped block this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: Tell us what the nature of those objections were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson\u003c/strong>: Neighbors were fearful that their rural area would be destroyed by commercial development next door, even though film executives said it would be blocked from view and they’d plant a forest of trees. But neighbors were concerned about noise issues, traffic issues, night lighting, an outdoor stage, and other aspects of the development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists on the other hand were concerned about a creek program that looked to be a model watershed restoration program, but there were some problems that the state and federal regulators said they had with a field program, so there was also objection on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: There’s been some difference, I guess, about how long the delay has been by the press release Lucasfilm put out. We should note, by the way, that we invited them to participate in this program but they declined to do so. They say the objections have been going on for 25 years, but in your reporting you note the master plan for this was approved some 16 years ago. Landowners say they haven’t been objecting all that long. How long is the history to all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson\u003c/strong>: Well, of course, Lucasfilm was formed in ’71 and bought Skywalker, what was then called Bulltail Ranch, became Skywalker Ranch in 1978, I believe. Then bought the Grady Ranch – which is the latest issue – in 1985, I think, but didn’t develop it initially and was able to get a master plan approved for a bigger development than the one that’s most lately at issue, in 1996 I believe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: So fair to say, it’s been going on for some time. What are you hearing from Lucasfilm right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson\u003c/strong>: Well, I guess anything is possible and no one can speak for George Lucas except for George, although the chief communicator of the firm, Lynn Hale who is the director of communications, told me yesterday that it was just too late and the company was moving on. Today, she’s underscoring that and I can read it here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This just in: We’ve been inundated with calls and emails from politicians, developers, and the public expressing their appreciation of George Lucas as a developer as well as an environmentalist. I can’t tell you how many offers we have had from cities wanting us to come to their community. You ask if Lucasfilm would reconsider. Unfortunately, the answer is no. We truly appreciate the outpouring of support but based on our experience, even with the support of the majority, the minority has the power to drag this out to the point that it makes it impossible to do business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would seem to indicate that Lucasfilm is moving elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson:\u003c/strong> Joining us now are Steve Kinsey, he’s president of the Marin County Board of Supervisors and Liz Dale, president of the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowner’s Association, which has been in opposition to the Lucas Film development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Steve Kinsey, you heard I’m sure, Nels Johnson read that latest email from Lucas Film and it does not sound promising. What is your reaction to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kinsey\u003c/strong>: Well it doesn’t sound promising. On the other hand, like every good Skywalker drama, there’s always that last minute of hope and effort and I’ve been in direct communication with some of the most senior staff at Lucasfilm within the last 12 hours and they have made it clear to me that George Lucas has not spoken. In all decisions related to Skywalker property, the final word is from the boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we’re putting all of our efforts into communicating with him, we’re forwarding every communication we have – both good and bad – and let me just say, they’ve been overwhelmingly supportive of the proposal, and we’ve made other offers as well on the part of our Board of Supervisors to stand with them, to push back on litigation from unwarranted sources, to break through the regulatory gridlock that he sees outside of the county’s process.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Grady+Ranch,+marin+county,+california&aq=&sll=38.184572,-122.720921&sspn=1.489617,2.384033&ie=UTF8&hq=Grady+Ranch,&hnear=Marin,+California&t=h&ll=38.045996,-122.599955&spn=0.023658,0.036478&z=14&output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Grady+Ranch,+marin+county,+california&aq=&sll=38.184572,-122.720921&sspn=1.489617,2.384033&ie=UTF8&hq=Grady+Ranch,&hnear=Marin,+California&t=h&ll=38.045996,-122.599955&spn=0.023658,0.036478&z=14\">View Larger Map\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080\">Lucas Valley in Marin County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: And describe what some of those possibilities are – what’s new on the table that you’re trying to put forward that would convince Lucasfilm to change their minds?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kinsey\u003c/strong>: Well let me just start by saying, from day one the Board of Supervisors have been supportive of the project. It was approved in ’97, there were minor changes being made to the proposal in this version of it, and in fact we view them as improvements to the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we have been doing what we can to be supportive but what we’ve added to the mix is to suggest that if neighboring associations are going to sue Lucasfilm, we typically indemnify the county from litigation, but we say we would stand with Lucas on the litigation, whatever cost that might be we would share equally, and whatever efforts we could do to expedite the decision making process within the courts, we would do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We would also, and already have, reached out to special districts like Las Gallinas or the Marin Municipal Water Districts, who have in the past presented unreasonable expectations of the project and made it clear to them we will put full pressure on them to act responsibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, of course, the regional – what are called control board – and other environmental regulatory agencies. I think we have to move further up the decision making chains and not let lower level bureaucrats impede I think the region sees as a remarkably responsible stewardship proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: Let’s bring Liz Dale into our conversation, president of the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowner’s Association, which has been in opposition to the Lucas development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning with what Mr. Kinsey’s just referenced in terms of one of the things that appears to have prompted Lucasfilm to make this decision was this concern that this would be drawn out forever and that it would land in the courts. What can you say about that Ms. Dale, in terms of the thread of litigation – were you planning to sue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liz Dale\u003c/strong>: No, the only time we have heard that said about us is outside of our group. That is certainly nothing we have ever said. In fact, we are quite bewildered and confused by these statements I’ve just heard, and by the decision itself, which took us all by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: So would you be willing to say, that you would abide by whatever the Board of Supervisors would vote on this, and that you would not appeal it further, that you would not file suit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dale\u003c/strong>: Well, it would be inappropriate for me to pre-approve something I don’t know will ultimately be the outcome. The community will have to make its decision obviously when that is decided. We were in a wait and see mode when this decision occurred on Tuesday. The process was delayed for an agency review, so we were expecting that agency review to soon be finished and then the Board of Supervisors would be able to make the decision they wanted to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: What’s your reaction, Liz Dale, to what you’re hearing this morning and I know that I’ve heard over the last 72 hours about this sort of seemingly, according to Nels Johnson at the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em> and others, this overwhelming amount of support for the Lucasfilm venture because of the jobs it would create, because of the additional tax revenue it would generate. How are you feeling about that? Do you feel like you’re sort of the bad guy in this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dale\u003c/strong>: Well, I think we certainly feel very sorry to be made out to be the bad guy. Truly, this decision was very likely made for many, many, many reasons and certainly the issues we brought forward were of legitimate concern – public safety, road safety, evacuation safety – so you know, I think we are perhaps described as opponents, when in fact we were just trying to seek a more perfect outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: So are you saying then, that if, as you characterized them, legitimate concerns were addressed that you could be supportive of this project?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dale\u003c/strong>: You have to realize, our community was only involved in this process and made aware of this project very recently last fall. We had very brief opportunities for public comments and the EIR review, and frankly this was really a way to insure that all the information had been reviewed and we had everything to make sure all parties were happy rather than have problems down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kinsey\u003c/strong>: Well, Ms. Dale used the words bewildered and confused. And I'm exactly that with her comments today. I think she's already in revisionist history mode. I can pick on every one of the points she made and point to the fact that from the very beginning, the Skywalker properties invited the homeowners association out to see the projects they have completed, which are outstanding examples of environmental stewardship and good business practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was years ago. This project was also approved years ago, so we were talking about minor revisions to the project. She says they didn't want to do anything other than see the project through to a healthy outcome... then why did they on the last day drop a 50-page complaint from an attorney that's known as a CEQA warrior with all the characteristics of a precursor to a lawsuit. Why did they say the project didn't even belong on that property, that they wanted to move it out and suggested moving it out on to Highway 101?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's nothing about the actions of the association suggesting they\u003cbr>\nwere just neighbors trying to look after a handful of conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unfortunate they have threatened legal action because that's apparently the time-stalling technique that has been used in so many instances in the Bay Area to discourage and destroy good projects with the cost of litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dale\u003c/strong>: Again, I remain rather astonished, because we have made no such threats, have no such intentions; we simply were doing what's a normal recourse within the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an attorney who did submit a letter reviewing the issues, and when you do an appeal of this sort, the entire planning commissioners' records and decisions are all reviewed at once, that's the entire purpose of it, so all issues are resolved at that level and not just some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities not only have the right but I think the obligation to raise issues that may be of concern and problematic to the development before its built so they can be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caller\u003c/strong>: I'm a Lucas Valley homeowner, and I want to be clear we're not against the project, we're against the location of the project. the infrastructure is simply not there to support a project of this scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'd love to keep jobs in Marin and do things to grow the Marin economy, but it's simply not feasible to have a project of that size, with Lucas Valley Road being a one-lane road, 3.5 miles from the freeway. There are so many other areas of Marin that could benefit from a project like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kinsey\u003c/strong>: The specifics of the location were decided in the late '90s, and they prevented up to 800 homes on the three ranches that are a combination of this project, and if the homeowners in the area would just look around, the neighborhood they're living in were dairy farms 30 years ago as well, and improvements to Lucas Valley Road were made when their subdivisions went in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The support infrastructure for this project would be far less than the potential for what would come after if we're unable to get this project back on track.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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There’s been an outpouring of support it would appear, at least from the emails we’ve been getting – support for Lucasfilm. And dismay that neighbors have helped block this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: Tell us what the nature of those objections were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson\u003c/strong>: Neighbors were fearful that their rural area would be destroyed by commercial development next door, even though film executives said it would be blocked from view and they’d plant a forest of trees. But neighbors were concerned about noise issues, traffic issues, night lighting, an outdoor stage, and other aspects of the development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists on the other hand were concerned about a creek program that looked to be a model watershed restoration program, but there were some problems that the state and federal regulators said they had with a field program, so there was also objection on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: There’s been some difference, I guess, about how long the delay has been by the press release Lucasfilm put out. We should note, by the way, that we invited them to participate in this program but they declined to do so. They say the objections have been going on for 25 years, but in your reporting you note the master plan for this was approved some 16 years ago. Landowners say they haven’t been objecting all that long. How long is the history to all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson\u003c/strong>: Well, of course, Lucasfilm was formed in ’71 and bought Skywalker, what was then called Bulltail Ranch, became Skywalker Ranch in 1978, I believe. Then bought the Grady Ranch – which is the latest issue – in 1985, I think, but didn’t develop it initially and was able to get a master plan approved for a bigger development than the one that’s most lately at issue, in 1996 I believe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson\u003c/strong>: So fair to say, it’s been going on for some time. What are you hearing from Lucasfilm right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson\u003c/strong>: Well, I guess anything is possible and no one can speak for George Lucas except for George, although the chief communicator of the firm, Lynn Hale who is the director of communications, told me yesterday that it was just too late and the company was moving on. Today, she’s underscoring that and I can read it here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This just in: We’ve been inundated with calls and emails from politicians, developers, and the public expressing their appreciation of George Lucas as a developer as well as an environmentalist. I can’t tell you how many offers we have had from cities wanting us to come to their community. You ask if Lucasfilm would reconsider. Unfortunately, the answer is no. We truly appreciate the outpouring of support but based on our experience, even with the support of the majority, the minority has the power to drag this out to the point that it makes it impossible to do business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would seem to indicate that Lucasfilm is moving elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iverson:\u003c/strong> Joining us now are Steve Kinsey, he’s president of the Marin County Board of Supervisors and Liz Dale, president of the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowner’s Association, which has been in opposition to the Lucas Film development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Steve Kinsey, you heard I’m sure, Nels Johnson read that latest email from Lucas Film and it does not sound promising. What is your reaction to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kinsey\u003c/strong>: Well it doesn’t sound promising. On the other hand, like every good Skywalker drama, there’s always that last minute of hope and effort and I’ve been in direct communication with some of the most senior staff at Lucasfilm within the last 12 hours and they have made it clear to me that George Lucas has not spoken. 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She says they didn't want to do anything other than see the project through to a healthy outcome... then why did they on the last day drop a 50-page complaint from an attorney that's known as a CEQA warrior with all the characteristics of a precursor to a lawsuit. 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