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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>ities along San Francisco Bay have traditionally defended themselves against the menacing ocean with walls, levees, and pumps. But as seas rise, structures that keep water away may not be able to defend against an uncertain future. So urban and landscape designers are looking for alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We need to slow down water. It’s the first principle.’\u003ccite>Richard Mullane, Hassell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Near Colma Creek, in South San Francisco, new ideas imagine embracing the bay, allowing water to move onto land, and allowing people to move on to water. If sea level rise reveals the vulnerabilities in our traditional relationship with water, it’s also opening the door to a new kind of thinking about the permeable relationships between water, land, and people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Creek Controlled by Concrete\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>olma Creek trickles to life among ferns and green grass in the saddle of San Bruno Mountain, and rolls through industrial flatlands to San Francisco Bay. The mountain’s foothills once tumbled almost directly into the waters of the bay, but decades of landfill and urban development have pushed the mountain and the shoreline apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, creek waters flow in a concrete channel past boxy warehouses and industrial parks. I hop a short chain link fence with Ariel Cherbowsky-Corkidi, program director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountainwatch.org/\">San Bruno MountainWatch\u003c/a>. We crouch in the nook of a low bridge on a windy evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Colma Creek had a really, really big salt marsh at its mouth that spread a pretty good ways inland,” Cherbowsky-Corkidi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not anymore. We can smell tidewater, salty and fresh; so can shorebirds standing on dry patches of the creekbed. But the creek itself is locked in gray, 20 feet below us. A for-hire LimeBike rusts morosely in the shallow ripples. Cherbowsky-Corkidi says people have separated themselves from this creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[emailsignup newslettername='science' align='right']“We want to not be in contact with it, you know,” he says, “putting it behind fences and no trespassing signs. We’re kind of breaking that positive connection between people and water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To solve the problems of sea level rise in South City, experts say that positive connection must be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can create walls that protect against hundred-year storms, yeah,” says Richard Mullane, a landscape architect with the international firm Hassell. “But then for 99 years and 50 weeks, do we really want to be three or four meters away from the shoreline? We don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Use Land to Control Water\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Resilient by Design competition, Mullane’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.resilientbayarea.org/hassell/\">Hassell Plus team\u003c/a> set up a temporary office in a former bank in South San Francisco. Inside, Mullane grew native plants — the kind that would thrive along a rebuilt shoreline — and shared ideas for reconnecting the downtown core to the waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday in April, the Casillas family wandered in: Brisa, her husband Danny, and their one-year-old son Cruz. As they study a massive wall map, 30-feet by 20-feet, Mullane shows them where the bay will rise, and Brisa realizes their home and their jobs will be awash in blue within a few decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926614\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2358px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1926614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2358\" height=\"2909\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630.jpg 2358w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-160x197.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-800x987.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-768x947.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-1020x1258.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-973x1200.jpg 973w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-1920x2369.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-1180x1456.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-960x1184.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-240x296.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-375x463.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-520x642.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2358px) 100vw, 2358px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brisa and Danny Casillas, and their son Cruz, live in flood-prone San Mateo County but never thought about rising seas before. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What can we do?” says Brisa Casillas. “We live here and we have two other daughters, too. It is a concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny Casillas says he didn’trealize flooding had anything to do with rising seas. “I guess I never thought about it like that,” he says. But he does remember one incident of high water, fifteen years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was flooded down going to the freeway so I couldn’t get to school in San Mateo,” he says. “Yeah, I remember it was a nightmare, just cars all lined up on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullane tells Casillas that those high waters were a warning. More often now, extreme rainstorms and big tides will collide and fill the channelized Colma Creek, spilling floodwaters into the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.resilientbayarea.org/south-san-francisco/\">a proposa\u003c/a>l the Hassel Plus team \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-bSPOJxtI\">presented\u003c/a> publicly in May, they argue the solution is less concrete and more green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to slow down water,” Mullane says.” “It’s the first principle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would slow the water down is a wide, soft creek bottom that can absorb wave energy. Plus plenty of trees and native plants to sop up excess water. Then Mullane suggests expanding parkland surrounding the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we slow down that water,” he says, “we need to have space for it whilst we wait for rising tides to reduce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That space could look like a soccer field: grassy, flat, perhaps with sloping sides to contain the water. If you build a park in lowlands, it’s okay if it floods. That shows people how to share land with water, Mullane says. “We have to plan for extreme events and we have to plan for daily life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1926618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resilient South City invited people to mark places on the aerial map that they love or want to see changed, or that had flooded in the past. \u003ccite>(Hassell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redeveloping open space into a soccer field would not only expand recreational opportunities at the shoreline, but also diversify them. The narrow concrete Bay Trail is useful for walking or riding a bike, both solitary, small-group activities. Soccer, the Australian Mullane points out, is a pastime that attracts crowds, and is popular with a diverse population. What that means is that one Hassell Plus-proposed soccer field could both re-engineer water flow and re-engineer the way people see the shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullane and the Hassell Plus team’s proposal for Colma Creek isn’t much more than an idea yet. The Resilient by Design Competition seeded conversations and ideas in 9 communities around the bay, but won’t fund entire projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Embrace the Bay With Softer Landscapes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he argument that rebuilding a soft landscape can help the region cope with sea level rise has already found favor with Bay Area voters. Two years ago, across 9 counties, 69% of them approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesonaaforthebay.com/about\">Measure AA\u003c/a>, a 20-year effort to bring marshes back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It was a pristine bay. Then we spent 100 years filling it in and considering wetlands waste.’\u003ccite>Dave Pine,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“[Tidelands and marshes] are remarkable things both for the ecosystem and for flood protection,” says Pine, who also chairs the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority. The authority eventually will hand out $500 million for potential projects, raised from Measure AA’s $12 annual parcel tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of funding twenty-two sites applied for support; the restoration authority \u003ca href=\"http://sfbayrestore.org/\">will jump-start\u003c/a> just nine of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pine says this serves to underline the urgency of preparing for higher water. “If we don’t get it started, many of the opportunities will be lost because of the rising Bay,” he says. “There’s a big gap between the need and the funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adaptations to rising seas that focus on green or natural infrastructure may cost less than walls, pumps and levees, which demand mechanical maintenance and more frequent upgrades. But even regional projects can cost tens of millions of dollars, and need approval from multiple local, state and federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, around Colma Creek, “It’s one of the few creeks in the county where we actually have a revenue stream to make some changes,” Pine says. San Mateo County created a flood control zone there in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1926622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28783653_2017527131835265_1731173713539235840_o-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South City flooding at Grand Avenue and Airport Boulevard in December 2014. \u003ccite>(Resilient South City)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colma Creek isn’t unique in its historic separation of land and water. Neither is the starved shoreline of South San Francisco. Eighty percent of historic marshes around the bay are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area is one small corner of a San Francisco Bay that people have dramatically transformed over time. “It was a pristine bay,” says San Mateo County Supervisor Dave Pine. “Then we spent 100 years filling it in and considering wetlands waste and thought about carving the top of San Bruno Mountain off and putting it into the bay and we had dumps up and down the San Mateo County Bayshore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through its widening, through the eras of meatpacking plants, and dumps, and industrial sites, land along the shoreline has reflected South San Francisco’s relationship to water, even just by distance from it. Now local leaders and designers say that sea level rise is making closeness to water inevitable: they’re suggesting we learn to embrace the water we once pushed away.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Use Land to Control Water\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Resilient by Design competition, Mullane’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.resilientbayarea.org/hassell/\">Hassell Plus team\u003c/a> set up a temporary office in a former bank in South San Francisco. Inside, Mullane grew native plants — the kind that would thrive along a rebuilt shoreline — and shared ideas for reconnecting the downtown core to the waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday in April, the Casillas family wandered in: Brisa, her husband Danny, and their one-year-old son Cruz. As they study a massive wall map, 30-feet by 20-feet, Mullane shows them where the bay will rise, and Brisa realizes their home and their jobs will be awash in blue within a few decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926614\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2358px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1926614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2358\" height=\"2909\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630.jpg 2358w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-160x197.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-800x987.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-768x947.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-1020x1258.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-973x1200.jpg 973w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-1920x2369.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-1180x1456.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-960x1184.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-240x296.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-375x463.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/RS31587_IMG_5630-520x642.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2358px) 100vw, 2358px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brisa and Danny Casillas, and their son Cruz, live in flood-prone San Mateo County but never thought about rising seas before. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What can we do?” says Brisa Casillas. “We live here and we have two other daughters, too. It is a concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny Casillas says he didn’trealize flooding had anything to do with rising seas. “I guess I never thought about it like that,” he says. But he does remember one incident of high water, fifteen years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was flooded down going to the freeway so I couldn’t get to school in San Mateo,” he says. “Yeah, I remember it was a nightmare, just cars all lined up on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullane tells Casillas that those high waters were a warning. More often now, extreme rainstorms and big tides will collide and fill the channelized Colma Creek, spilling floodwaters into the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.resilientbayarea.org/south-san-francisco/\">a proposa\u003c/a>l the Hassel Plus team \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-bSPOJxtI\">presented\u003c/a> publicly in May, they argue the solution is less concrete and more green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to slow down water,” Mullane says.” “It’s the first principle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would slow the water down is a wide, soft creek bottom that can absorb wave energy. Plus plenty of trees and native plants to sop up excess water. Then Mullane suggests expanding parkland surrounding the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we slow down that water,” he says, “we need to have space for it whilst we wait for rising tides to reduce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That space could look like a soccer field: grassy, flat, perhaps with sloping sides to contain the water. If you build a park in lowlands, it’s okay if it floods. That shows people how to share land with water, Mullane says. “We have to plan for extreme events and we have to plan for daily life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1926618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/28870558_2017992898455355_1986297197578158080_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resilient South City invited people to mark places on the aerial map that they love or want to see changed, or that had flooded in the past. \u003ccite>(Hassell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redeveloping open space into a soccer field would not only expand recreational opportunities at the shoreline, but also diversify them. The narrow concrete Bay Trail is useful for walking or riding a bike, both solitary, small-group activities. Soccer, the Australian Mullane points out, is a pastime that attracts crowds, and is popular with a diverse population. What that means is that one Hassell Plus-proposed soccer field could both re-engineer water flow and re-engineer the way people see the shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullane and the Hassell Plus team’s proposal for Colma Creek isn’t much more than an idea yet. The Resilient by Design Competition seeded conversations and ideas in 9 communities around the bay, but won’t fund entire projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Embrace the Bay With Softer Landscapes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he argument that rebuilding a soft landscape can help the region cope with sea level rise has already found favor with Bay Area voters. Two years ago, across 9 counties, 69% of them approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesonaaforthebay.com/about\">Measure AA\u003c/a>, a 20-year effort to bring marshes back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It was a pristine bay. Then we spent 100 years filling it in and considering wetlands waste.’\u003ccite>Dave Pine,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“[Tidelands and marshes] are remarkable things both for the ecosystem and for flood protection,” says Pine, who also chairs the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority. The authority eventually will hand out $500 million for potential projects, raised from Measure AA’s $12 annual parcel tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of funding twenty-two sites applied for support; the restoration authority \u003ca href=\"http://sfbayrestore.org/\">will jump-start\u003c/a> just nine of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pine says this serves to underline the urgency of preparing for higher water. “If we don’t get it started, many of the opportunities will be lost because of the rising Bay,” he says. “There’s a big gap between the need and the funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adaptations to rising seas that focus on green or natural infrastructure may cost less than walls, pumps and levees, which demand mechanical maintenance and more frequent upgrades. But even regional projects can cost tens of millions of dollars, and need approval from multiple local, state and federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, around Colma Creek, “It’s one of the few creeks in the county where we actually have a revenue stream to make some changes,” Pine says. 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"title": "This Tiny California Beach Town Is Suing Big Oil. It Sees This as a Fight for Survival",
"headTitle": "This Tiny California Beach Town Is Suing Big Oil. It Sees This as a Fight for Survival | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>MPERIAL BEACH, California — Among Serge Dedina’s first stops on a brisk morning tour of this small seaside city is a wall that separates a row of frayed apartments from wetlands known as the San Diego Bay Wildlife Refuge. Artists are dabbing finishing touches on a mural of sea birds against a flamingo-pink wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We are literally learning every day what will need to be done to address these issues.’\u003ccite>Andy Hall, Imperial Beach city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This splash of color is important to Dedina. It’s something he can do — his city’s leadership can do — to cheat the austerity that comes with having one of the smallest city budgets in the state. Dedina, 53, is the mayor of this oceanfront community at the southern edge of California, separated from Mexico by the estuary of the Tijuana River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water marks three borders around Imperial Beach. And what prosperity there is in Imperial Beach comes from the ocean and its surf. The city logo is a classic Woody station wagon with a surfboard poking out of the back. People come here for the beach and the estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926580\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1926580 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach4-David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imperial Beach. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But with the climate crisis, the same water has become the single greatest threat to Imperial Beach’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last year, facing a problem it sees as too expensive to bear, the city filed a lawsuit seeking compensation from major oil, gas and coal companies. It accuses them of knowingly contributing to sea level rise and coastal flooding by producing fossil fuels and ignoring warnings about the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Dedina, the math was simple. There’s no way Imperial Beach, with its slim city budget of $19 million, can pay for all the damage to roads and city property that experts say is coming — and mounting research pinpoints burning of fossil fuels as a key driver of that sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Stay informed about the latest climate, energy and environmental news from InsideClimate. \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/icn-weekly?utm_source=kqed&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=ICN-weekly\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up\u003c/a> for the ICN newsletter.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A 2016 study noted that beach erosion here has been accelerating — today the pace is just over a foot a year — and is expected to reach 6 feet per year by 2100. Nor can the city afford remedies like sea walls, which one study said would cost at least $50 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been watching the coast and ocean since I was a kid,” said Dedina, a surfer and veteran of local environmental fights over the last four decades. “It became clear there was a different feel to what I was seeing, that there was a different scale to the ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something bad was going to happen,” he said, “we had to try to stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s another statistic that makes climate change a public safety issue here: There are dozens of sites in and around Imperial Beach where handling of hazardous material is permitted. And a recent study on sea level rise shows locations including military sites that handle hazardous material and underground storage tanks that are vulnerable to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“It became clear there was a different feel to what I was seeing, that there was a different scale to the ocean,” Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dendina said. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are literally learning every day what will need to be done to address these issues,” said Andy Hall, Imperial Beach’s city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4462950-Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-July-2017.html\">Imperial Beach lawsuit\u003c/a> sweeps up 37 companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and Peabody Energy. Since Imperial Beach and the counties of Marin and San Mateo chose a \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042018/climate-change-fossil-fuel-company-lawsuits-timeline-exxon-children-california-cities-attorney-general\">courtroom showdown\u003c/a>, five other cities and counties in California have also sued. Around the country, others have done the same, including New York City and municipalities in Colorado and Washington State. Some of the suits expand the harms of climate change beyond sea level rise to include wildfires, drought and pestilence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”uJodWEpfEm9uk0a9HmxmxgcwcyiGf42O”]”These communities are facing massive costs that will have to be paid either by their taxpayers or by the oil, gas and coal companies who caused them,” said San Francisco lawyer Matt Edling, who represents Imperial Beach and five other California cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies, which did not respond to interview requests, are fighting back hard, both in court and in a campaign of public messaging, calling the suits frivolous and misguided. They won \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062018/california-cities-climate-change-lawsuits-dismissed-fossil-fuels-industry-rising-sea-levels\">dismissals\u003c/a> of San Francisco’s and Oakland’s lawsuits on June 25 after getting them moved to federal court. But Imperial Beach’s case is still in state court, where the law is friendlier to municipal plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits could take years to wend through the courts. The outcome is unpredictable: Billions of dollars could be awarded, or fossil fuel could be given a pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ugly Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>uring his tour of the city, Dedina stopped on Descanso Street to highlight the ugly face of sea level rise that’s likely to swamp this 4.5-square-mile community of 27,000 people. A third of the city faces ruin by flooding, he says. These days, when the tide is high and the ocean is roiling, Descanso and other streets become funnels, sending ocean water into the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the same conversation about dire consequences, Dedina pauses to describe a resilient little city accustomed to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residential streets, like this one that cuts thought the heart of Imperial Beach, are projected to flood as sea level rises. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not long ago, Imperial Beach was disputed turf for Hell’s Angels and Mongols motorcycle gangsters who often tangled. It was seen as an outlaw city whose best attributes were cheap apartments and reliable surf action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city remains a little rough around the edges; more Atlantic City grit than Cape Cod posh. This is a working-class town, nothing like La Jolla, the upscale and better-known beach community some 20 miles north. Demographics show 13 percent of the Imperial Beach population lives in poverty, even as the average price for a home has jumped to $650,000. Middle-class families are finding a place that is changing, softening a bit as a bedroom community for the bustling San Diego metropolitan area, 14 miles north on Interstate 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Beach boasts 323 days of mostly or partly sunny days a year. Its beach is the city’s gemstone. Non-stop volleyball and surfing present the quintessential picture of Southern California life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Ballard, with her son Sean, has seen her family’s condo flooded by the ocean several times. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dedina, however, has seen warning signs that the city’s idyllic life is in peril, especially when the ocean is whipped by El Niño — a complex meteorological event in which the Pacific Ocean becomes significantly warmer than usual and triggers severe weather patterns across the globe. The increased volume of water from ocean warming becomes an even larger force when churned by El Niño.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[emailsignup newslettername='science' align='right']Dedina recalls the winter of 2015, when heavy rain led to extensive damage. Those storms were among \u003ca href=\"https://phys.org/news/2017-02-el-nino-gobbled-california-beaches.html\">the strongest El Niño-related events on record\u003c/a>. Ocean water breached the riprap of boulders and poured into garages and buildings. San Diego Bay slopped over the city’s northern limits. Bayside Elementary school grounds became a soggy mess. The surge pushed back into storms drains and flowed into inland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw some of the worst coastal flooding that we’d ever seen,” Dedina said. “In fact, in our bayfront we had the worst flooding ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Hard Choices Will Have to Be Made’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>mperial Beach’s future is laid out in a 2016 study commissioned by the city. It shows sea level has already risen significantly along the city’s ocean side and bay side and appears certain to continue. Destructive flooding is expected to become routine by the year 2100, even if emissions stopped tomorrow. As many as 700 homes and commercial buildings could be lost to coastal flooding with a sea level rise of 6.5 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tijuana River Estuary to the south could also merge with San Diego Bay, submerging the heart of the city’s residential section. An estimated 30 miles worth of city roads, about 40 percent of Imperial Beach black top, could become impassable. More than 15 miles of sewer lines could fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926587\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connecticut Street, where Robert Newton and Judy Creveling built their home nine years ago, sits in a flood plain. They can’t afford to fortify the house against flooding or move. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Robert Newton and Judy Creveling, both in their 60s, that section of town was their dream destination. They built a two-story home on Connecticut Street nine years ago with the intention of living out their lives there. The city’s sea-level rise study shows their house sits in a flood zone. Although the worst-case scenario is still decades off, even now stormwater collects on their street more than it used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple lives on a fixed income of Social Security; they make a bit extra selling customized motor-driven bicycles. They can’t afford to move from their home, and they can’t afford to fortify it against potential flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens if it keeps getting worse?” Creveling said. “It takes away that peace of mind, thinking that we have a home for the rest of our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Revell, chief scientist at \u003ca href=\"http://www.revellcoastal.com/home.html\">Revell Coastal\u003c/a>, which conducted \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4523800-IB-Sea-Level-Rise-Assessment-FINAL.html\">the Imperial Beach study,\u003c/a> said the city cannot win the battle against the rising ocean. It can moderate the harm with tactical planning that includes accepting some loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard choices will have to be made,” he said. “Some things will have to be sacrificed to sea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1926586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-1020x798.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-1020x798.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-800x626.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-768x601.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-960x751.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-240x188.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-375x293.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-520x407.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px.png 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.imperialbeachca.gov/vertical/sites/%7B6283CA4C-E2BD-4DFA-A7F7-8D4ECD543E0F%7D/uploads/FY18_FY19_Budget_Book_062117_final.pdf\"> budget\u003c/a> now goes to fixing streets, trash pick up, the police and maintaining sidewalks. Spending money to protect infrastructure means there would be little left for “luxuries,” such as a new community pool, a playground or upgrades to the senior center. Contrast this with San Diego, which has set aside $83 million this year alone for climate resiliency measures that include fortifying against sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Beach is trying to figure out how to add costly seawalls and jetties. It is requiring new developments to be built above the 100-year flood line. And city planners are addressing susceptible property, parcel by parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the litigation against fossil fuel producers that gives Imperial Beach a real chance, Dedina believes. “We cannot provide for our residents and address the real costs of climate change. … What we are doing is confronting the social and economic inequity our community faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Beach is not facing this future alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1926593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px.png 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-240x287.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-375x449.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-520x622.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">San Mateo County worries about high tides flooding San Francisco International Airport. Marin County estimates climate change damage to homes and business could amount to $16 billion. Landslides, wildfires and drought put residents of the city and county of Santa Cruz at greater risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York, officials say climate change-related harm will come from more frequent and more intense heat waves, extreme precipitation and sea level rise. It cites hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars already being spent to mitigate climate change hazards. And, in Colorado, the Rocky Mountains’ dwindling snowpack threatens the state’s water supply for people and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Slam-Dunk Court Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>awsuits like Imperial Beach’s are meant to set new, far-reaching precedents in holding polluters financially liable for the harm they inflict. Until now, they have not been made to pay anything for global warming damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies being targeted are among the world’s richest. The 37 defendants got wealthy by selling products that in the past half-century accounted for a fifth of all the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the city’s lawsuit. And for at least the past three decades, they understood the risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits lay out a detailed timeline back to 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=27285\">told Congress\u003c/a> that burning fossil fuels was responsible for an increase in CO\u003csub>2\u003c/sub>. And they use the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken\">industry’s own decades of admissions\u003c/a> to show how much the industry was aware of the dangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1926596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px.png 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-160x339.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-240x508.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-375x794.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-520x1101.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">The companies’ vigorous defense, mounted by some of the nation’s elite law firms, is that they can’t be blamed. It’s not possible, they argue, for any one polluter’s contribution to be blamed for any one city’s calamity. And blame should rest on all the producers and all the consumers of fossil fuel all over the world — not on a handful of producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To meet their burden of proof, the plaintiffs are going to have to thread the eye of the needle to show that it is the named companies responsible for the damages being alleged, and not all of the other industries that are emitters or the developing industrial powers like China,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.gordonrees.com/newsroom/2014/william-ruskin-joins-gordon-rees\">William Ruskin\u003c/a>, a lawyer who has spent his career defending corporate giants against tort, environmental and liability claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have been working to answer that question since at least 2003, when Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute began \u003ca href=\"http://www.climateaccountability.org/pdf/Heede%20PathToAccountability%2018Oct17.pdf\">research\u003c/a> that has led to a meticulous apportioning of climate damages to carbon producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step by step, they documented each big energy company’s production of fossil fuels. They calculated the resulting emissions from burning it all, and traced each one’s contribution to the buildup of greenhouse gases. Finally, they determined the amount of warming attributable to each, along with their share of the ensuing damages — peer-reviewed stepping stones marking the pathway to liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/fight-misinformation/climate-responsibility#.WwRBvLjTCGk\">latest of these studies\u003c/a> found that just 50 companies, from 1980 to 2010, produced the polluting fuels responsible for 10 percent of the planet’s warming so far, and 4 percent of the sea level rise. It was published last year by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Climate Accountability Institute and scientists at Oxford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1926591 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Emissions-Fingerprints-529px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Emissions-Fingerprints-529px.png 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Emissions-Fingerprints-529px-160x134.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Emissions-Fingerprints-529px-240x201.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Emissions-Fingerprints-529px-375x314.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Emissions-Fingerprints-529px-520x435.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">Carbon dioxide and methane emissions traced to five of the biggest companies — Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Shell and BP — were responsible for about 9 percent of the rise in atmospheric CO2 from 1880 to 2010, the study found. Those companies are targeted in the Imperial Beach lawsuit and the other lawsuits filed in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global warming gases traced to the same five companies from 1980 to 2010, a critical span in which comprehensive scientific evidence emerged that burning fossil fuels was contributing to global warming, account for nearly 5 percent of the rise in atmospheric CO2 from 1880 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, said the science can help define what the companies knew, when they knew it and how they reacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science has become so much more exact in identifying those responsible for creating the greenhouse emissions that it will make it difficult for the oil companies to deny responsibility,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ann-e-carlson/\">Carlson\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Perennial Underdog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>edina, whose family moved to the city when he was 7, embraces the role of the underdog mayor, taking on the titans of the industrial era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a familiar role. He was a boy in elementary school when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4462239-Dedina-1971-Letter-to-Editor.html\">wrote a letter\u003c/a> to the city’s weekly newspaper, The Reminder, summoning all of the indignation of a fourth grader over a proposal to develop the Tijuana Estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926598\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Tijuana-Estuary_David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tijuana River Estuary runs along the southern boundary of Imperial Beach. It’s a wildlife habitat that could become a source of flooding. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You said you were excited about a shopping center being built there and all that stuff. Did you ever think of all the wildlife that will be killed and the land that will be wasted?” Dedina wanted to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his mid-teens, Dedina and a couple of buddies planted themselves in front of a bulldozer to prevent the damming of the Tijuana River, again in defense of the estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dedina saw the consequences of that action as nothing more than a raw publicity stunt could have ruined the estuary. A yellowed newspaper photograph shows Dedina being dragged from in front of the bulldozer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dedina went on to study at the University of California at San Diego on a partial surf scholarship and later earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Texas. He channeled youthful indignation into co-founding \u003ca href=\"http://wildcoast.org/\">Wildcoast\u003c/a> in 2000. The international organization works on conservation of coastal and marine ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s as though all the political and ideological fights have led Dedina to this challenge of the formidable fossil fuel industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even winning the mayor’s chair was a struggle: In 2014 Dedina, the decided underdog in the race, ousted the incumbent by a margin of fewer than 50 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/PXijCM890xs1QvqHkkGd4?domain=insideclimatenews.org\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a non-profit, non-partisan news outlet that covers climate, energy and the environment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Dedina, the math was simple. There’s no way Imperial Beach, with its slim city budget of $19 million, can pay for all the damage to roads and city property that experts say is coming — and mounting research pinpoints burning of fossil fuels as a key driver of that sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Stay informed about the latest climate, energy and environmental news from InsideClimate. \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/icn-weekly?utm_source=kqed&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=ICN-weekly\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up\u003c/a> for the ICN newsletter.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A 2016 study noted that beach erosion here has been accelerating — today the pace is just over a foot a year — and is expected to reach 6 feet per year by 2100. Nor can the city afford remedies like sea walls, which one study said would cost at least $50 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been watching the coast and ocean since I was a kid,” said Dedina, a surfer and veteran of local environmental fights over the last four decades. “It became clear there was a different feel to what I was seeing, that there was a different scale to the ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something bad was going to happen,” he said, “we had to try to stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s another statistic that makes climate change a public safety issue here: There are dozens of sites in and around Imperial Beach where handling of hazardous material is permitted. And a recent study on sea level rise shows locations including military sites that handle hazardous material and underground storage tanks that are vulnerable to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Dendina2_David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“It became clear there was a different feel to what I was seeing, that there was a different scale to the ocean,” Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dendina said. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are literally learning every day what will need to be done to address these issues,” said Andy Hall, Imperial Beach’s city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4462950-Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-July-2017.html\">Imperial Beach lawsuit\u003c/a> sweeps up 37 companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and Peabody Energy. Since Imperial Beach and the counties of Marin and San Mateo chose a \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042018/climate-change-fossil-fuel-company-lawsuits-timeline-exxon-children-california-cities-attorney-general\">courtroom showdown\u003c/a>, five other cities and counties in California have also sued. Around the country, others have done the same, including New York City and municipalities in Colorado and Washington State. Some of the suits expand the harms of climate change beyond sea level rise to include wildfires, drought and pestilence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>”These communities are facing massive costs that will have to be paid either by their taxpayers or by the oil, gas and coal companies who caused them,” said San Francisco lawyer Matt Edling, who represents Imperial Beach and five other California cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies, which did not respond to interview requests, are fighting back hard, both in court and in a campaign of public messaging, calling the suits frivolous and misguided. They won \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062018/california-cities-climate-change-lawsuits-dismissed-fossil-fuels-industry-rising-sea-levels\">dismissals\u003c/a> of San Francisco’s and Oakland’s lawsuits on June 25 after getting them moved to federal court. But Imperial Beach’s case is still in state court, where the law is friendlier to municipal plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits could take years to wend through the courts. The outcome is unpredictable: Billions of dollars could be awarded, or fossil fuel could be given a pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ugly Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>uring his tour of the city, Dedina stopped on Descanso Street to highlight the ugly face of sea level rise that’s likely to swamp this 4.5-square-mile community of 27,000 people. A third of the city faces ruin by flooding, he says. These days, when the tide is high and the ocean is roiling, Descanso and other streets become funnels, sending ocean water into the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the same conversation about dire consequences, Dedina pauses to describe a resilient little city accustomed to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Connecticut-Street_David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residential streets, like this one that cuts thought the heart of Imperial Beach, are projected to flood as sea level rises. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not long ago, Imperial Beach was disputed turf for Hell’s Angels and Mongols motorcycle gangsters who often tangled. It was seen as an outlaw city whose best attributes were cheap apartments and reliable surf action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city remains a little rough around the edges; more Atlantic City grit than Cape Cod posh. This is a working-class town, nothing like La Jolla, the upscale and better-known beach community some 20 miles north. Demographics show 13 percent of the Imperial Beach population lives in poverty, even as the average price for a home has jumped to $650,000. Middle-class families are finding a place that is changing, softening a bit as a bedroom community for the bustling San Diego metropolitan area, 14 miles north on Interstate 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Beach boasts 323 days of mostly or partly sunny days a year. Its beach is the city’s gemstone. Non-stop volleyball and surfing present the quintessential picture of Southern California life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Ballard-David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Ballard, with her son Sean, has seen her family’s condo flooded by the ocean several times. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dedina, however, has seen warning signs that the city’s idyllic life is in peril, especially when the ocean is whipped by El Niño — a complex meteorological event in which the Pacific Ocean becomes significantly warmer than usual and triggers severe weather patterns across the globe. The increased volume of water from ocean warming becomes an even larger force when churned by El Niño.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dedina recalls the winter of 2015, when heavy rain led to extensive damage. Those storms were among \u003ca href=\"https://phys.org/news/2017-02-el-nino-gobbled-california-beaches.html\">the strongest El Niño-related events on record\u003c/a>. Ocean water breached the riprap of boulders and poured into garages and buildings. San Diego Bay slopped over the city’s northern limits. Bayside Elementary school grounds became a soggy mess. The surge pushed back into storms drains and flowed into inland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw some of the worst coastal flooding that we’d ever seen,” Dedina said. “In fact, in our bayfront we had the worst flooding ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Hard Choices Will Have to Be Made’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>mperial Beach’s future is laid out in a 2016 study commissioned by the city. It shows sea level has already risen significantly along the city’s ocean side and bay side and appears certain to continue. Destructive flooding is expected to become routine by the year 2100, even if emissions stopped tomorrow. As many as 700 homes and commercial buildings could be lost to coastal flooding with a sea level rise of 6.5 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tijuana River Estuary to the south could also merge with San Diego Bay, submerging the heart of the city’s residential section. An estimated 30 miles worth of city roads, about 40 percent of Imperial Beach black top, could become impassable. More than 15 miles of sewer lines could fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926587\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Newton-Creveling_David-Hasemyer-ICN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connecticut Street, where Robert Newton and Judy Creveling built their home nine years ago, sits in a flood plain. They can’t afford to fortify the house against flooding or move. \u003ccite>(David Hasemyer/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Robert Newton and Judy Creveling, both in their 60s, that section of town was their dream destination. They built a two-story home on Connecticut Street nine years ago with the intention of living out their lives there. The city’s sea-level rise study shows their house sits in a flood zone. Although the worst-case scenario is still decades off, even now stormwater collects on their street more than it used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple lives on a fixed income of Social Security; they make a bit extra selling customized motor-driven bicycles. They can’t afford to move from their home, and they can’t afford to fortify it against potential flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens if it keeps getting worse?” Creveling said. “It takes away that peace of mind, thinking that we have a home for the rest of our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Revell, chief scientist at \u003ca href=\"http://www.revellcoastal.com/home.html\">Revell Coastal\u003c/a>, which conducted \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4523800-IB-Sea-Level-Rise-Assessment-FINAL.html\">the Imperial Beach study,\u003c/a> said the city cannot win the battle against the rising ocean. It can moderate the harm with tactical planning that includes accepting some loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard choices will have to be made,” he said. “Some things will have to be sacrificed to sea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1926586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-1020x798.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-1020x798.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-800x626.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-768x601.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-960x751.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-240x188.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-375x293.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px-520x407.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-California-Flood-Risk-1058px.png 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.imperialbeachca.gov/vertical/sites/%7B6283CA4C-E2BD-4DFA-A7F7-8D4ECD543E0F%7D/uploads/FY18_FY19_Budget_Book_062117_final.pdf\"> budget\u003c/a> now goes to fixing streets, trash pick up, the police and maintaining sidewalks. Spending money to protect infrastructure means there would be little left for “luxuries,” such as a new community pool, a playground or upgrades to the senior center. Contrast this with San Diego, which has set aside $83 million this year alone for climate resiliency measures that include fortifying against sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Beach is trying to figure out how to add costly seawalls and jetties. It is requiring new developments to be built above the 100-year flood line. And city planners are addressing susceptible property, parcel by parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the litigation against fossil fuel producers that gives Imperial Beach a real chance, Dedina believes. “We cannot provide for our residents and address the real costs of climate change. … What we are doing is confronting the social and economic inequity our community faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Beach is not facing this future alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1926593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px.png 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-240x287.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-375x449.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Lawsuit-Rings-529px-520x622.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">San Mateo County worries about high tides flooding San Francisco International Airport. Marin County estimates climate change damage to homes and business could amount to $16 billion. Landslides, wildfires and drought put residents of the city and county of Santa Cruz at greater risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York, officials say climate change-related harm will come from more frequent and more intense heat waves, extreme precipitation and sea level rise. It cites hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars already being spent to mitigate climate change hazards. And, in Colorado, the Rocky Mountains’ dwindling snowpack threatens the state’s water supply for people and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Slam-Dunk Court Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>awsuits like Imperial Beach’s are meant to set new, far-reaching precedents in holding polluters financially liable for the harm they inflict. Until now, they have not been made to pay anything for global warming damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies being targeted are among the world’s richest. The 37 defendants got wealthy by selling products that in the past half-century accounted for a fifth of all the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the city’s lawsuit. And for at least the past three decades, they understood the risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits lay out a detailed timeline back to 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=27285\">told Congress\u003c/a> that burning fossil fuels was responsible for an increase in CO\u003csub>2\u003c/sub>. And they use the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken\">industry’s own decades of admissions\u003c/a> to show how much the industry was aware of the dangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1926596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px.png 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-160x339.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-240x508.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-375x794.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Imperial-Beach-Big-Oil-Timeline-529px-520x1101.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">The companies’ vigorous defense, mounted by some of the nation’s elite law firms, is that they can’t be blamed. It’s not possible, they argue, for any one polluter’s contribution to be blamed for any one city’s calamity. 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"content": "\u003cp>A “use-it-or-lose it” system of water allocation has historically required growers in California to irrigate their land or lose their water rights, whether market forces compelled them to grow crops or not.[contextly_sidebar id=”kAgnLaT4x8lUYnmH5a7jUq1rX9PkxpXE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in a significant breakthrough for the state’s water economy, a community of farmers near Ventura are about to join a new groundwater market. The buying and trading system, expected to begin by July 1, will allow farmers under the purview of the \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"http://fcgma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency\u003c/a> to fallow their own land and sell groundwater to other users willing to pay more than their crop sales would generate. This small-scale water market has been in planning stages for more than a year and is being launched as a pilot project that could eventually serve as a model for the rest of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Fienup, executive director of the California Lutheran University’s \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://www.clucerf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Center for Economic Research and Forecasting\u003c/a>, has worked with the Fox Canyon agency, local growers and \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://www.nature.org/?intc=nature.tnav.logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Nature Conservancy\u003c/a>to help design and launch the program. He said the new system creates a powerful incentive for the region’s growers, who produce strawberries, lemons, celery and avocados, among other crops, to conserve water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If all you’re allowed to do with your water is turn it into an agricultural product, there is an incentive to use all of it, and you end up with a race to the bottom of the aquifer,” Fienup said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new groundwater market not only limits each farmer to a specific water allocation but may actually reward them for not using it and instead allowing another grower to buy it. The market comes at the same time that California is working to implement the \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://www.water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater-Management/SGMA-Groundwater-Management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sustainable Groundwater Management Act\u003c/a>. That law, passed in 2014, requires that Groundwater Sustainability Plans be created to curb the overdrafting of aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_132650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In the Fox Canyon area, where some groundwater basins are considered critically overdrafted, the regulations could eventually result in 40 percent reductions in pumping allowances, according to \u003cspan class=\"caps\">E.J.\u003c/span> Remson, a Ventura-based senior program manager for the Nature Conservancy. Such cuts could mean scaled-back farm production and reduced revenue – and that’s where the market will come in. It will allow for quick and easy transactions that will offer farmers the chance to sell one asset – water – if growing another one – fruits and vegetables – doesn’t pencil out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act could potentially put growers in some areas out of business by imposing “existential financial stress” upon them, Fienup said.[contextly_sidebar id=”tU1SoFVl60BTpoMjmAQaISmhP0lo3VBp”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re afraid agriculture can’t exist with those kinds of reductions. 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She added that in regions like the Midwest, with sprawling grain monocultures, the economic playing field is too level to drive movement of water from one grower to another. Under such conditions, water trading systems are less serviceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_132651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-132651 size-full\" src=\"https://newsdeeply.imgix.net/20180622074001/CH241221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer on his tractor northwest of Oxnard, in Ventura County, California. A new groundwater market has emerged in the area to allow farmers to buy and sell water resources. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Water trading is nothing new for California – farmers in the state have long traded surface water allocations in transactions that allow for water to be delivered over long distances, often from areas of plentiful supply to those with severely impacted supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although these trades may be very profitable for the parties involved, they are associated with a problematic scheme whereby the seller uses groundwater to replace the water he or she sells – a system of so-called groundwater transfers that ultimately increases the net volume of water being used. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act will make these transfers more difficult to conduct, if not illegal, while encouraging groundwater trading within basins.[contextly_sidebar id=”o4Ll6Z6ZAbgPrC8KMkozwZU177DzxyS1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is also purchased for environmental uses. According to \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-water-market/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> by the \u003cspan class=\"caps\">PPIC\u003c/span>, more than 5 million acre-feet of California water was acquired via trading from 1982 to 2014 to support environmental needs, including replenishing depleted wetlands and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of mid-June, 86 wells were registered under the new Fox Canyon groundwater market, with each well newly fitted with electronic meters to prevent farmers from pumping more than they are allowed. The growers in the affected basins use about 62,000 acre-feet of water, with individual allocations based on historical use, according to Remson. This environmental organization has been closely involved in developing the new water market. Last week, Remson personally assisted farmers who were installing their electronic well meters. He said the Nature Conservancy has a vested interest in helping farmers stay in business, since that will ensure their land is not converted into suburban developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve spent a lot of money and time trying to save and restore the Santa Clara River, which runs across the Fox Canyon area,” he said. He noted that permeable agricultural land allows rainfall and runoff to seep into the earth, where it helps maintain waterways and marshes. Asphalt surfaces, on the other hand, prevent water from entering the ground and divert it elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it turns out agriculture is a great neighbor to wetlands and streams,” Remson added. “The last thing we want is the new groundwater regulations to cause this area to become developed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fienup said the tamper-proof well meters, which electronically record and aggregate pumping data, will be essential to sustaining an effective water market free of unscrupulous overpumping. In addition, at least two other elements are critical, he said – grower participation in designing the trading system and stiff regulatory oversight.[contextly_sidebar id=”mAiUgb9jzJFCsrppXjA6k0VEppwgYx09″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be enough regulatory pressure that farmers take seriously the prospect that cuts [to their allocations] are coming,” he said. In other words, if farmers believe that their own use of groundwater will never, in fact, be curtailed, they will have no need to buy water from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such enforcement of the laws created by the Groundwater Sustainability Plans required by the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act will come directly from local authorities. State officials, Fienup said, will theoretically provide close oversight, and mandatory usage cuts, he added, will be imposed over the next 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As that happens, trading will increase,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanak expects regions with severe groundwater deficits to launch their own groundwater markets in the near future. She sees the southern San Joaquin Valley, the Central Coast region and the area around Paso Robles as likely candidates for groundwater markets modeled, at least loosely, on that of the Fox Canyon area. Even areas where aquifers are robust but which have impacted surface water resources – like the Russian River basin – could benefit from water markets to even out imbalances in distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act will probably eventually reduce California’s total irrigated acreage, Hanak said benefits will outweigh the sacrifices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">“Groundwater markets make water flow toward the most valuable uses, which is good for everyone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2018/06/22/a-new-groundwater-market-emerges-in-california-are-more-on-the-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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That, she said, is because farmers who are growing a crop of relatively low value “would be paid handsomely” for their water as growers with more valuable crops – like, say, avocados or almonds – purchase the right to pump more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is better off in the end,” the \u003cspan class=\"caps\">PPIC\u003c/span>’s Hanak said. She added that in regions like the Midwest, with sprawling grain monocultures, the economic playing field is too level to drive movement of water from one grower to another. 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"content": "\u003cp>The results of a necropsy have led California authorities to launch a criminal investigation into the death of a great white shark that washed ashore in Santa Cruz on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘All I can assume is that they discovered some sort of trauma.’\u003ccite>David Ebert,\u003cbr>\nPacific Shark Research Center\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The young nine-foot-long, 500-pound male shark was discovered on Aptos Beach, according to Peter Tira of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/pets-animals/criminal-investigation-into-what-killed-great-white-shark-in-santa-cruz-co/3627407/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circulating online of the\u003c/a> dead shark show the carcass covered in cuts, but state officials wouldn’t comment on the wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our law enforcement division has taken up the case based on the necropsy results,” Tira says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of the necropsy have not been made public. But experts say the launch of a criminal probe marks a highly unusual move by authorities, indicating foul play may have been involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shark scientist David Ebert says he is not aware of any other instances in California where a dead white shark led to a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can assume is that they discovered some sort of trauma, perhaps a gunshot wound that isn’t visible in any of the images I’ve seen,” says Ebert, director of the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926348\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1926348 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-800x878.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-800x878.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-160x176.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-768x843.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-240x263.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-375x412.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-520x571.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd of people surround the dead shark that washed ashore on a beach in Aptos, Calif., Sunday. \u003ccite>(Ashley Kern)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ebert says he would be “pretty surprised” if someone deliberately targeted the shark. State and federal laws prohibit the targeting of great white sharks but makes allowances for those accidentally caught in commercial fishing nets. In those cases, the shark should be released, or if dead, reported to the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible scenario, says Ebert, is if someone dumped the dead shark back into the ocean without reporting it, after accidentally catching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shark expert Pete Klimley says its highly unusual for a great white shark to wash up on shore at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They generally show up in August through late November and then go out into the Pacific,” he says, “so this is very odd. There’s nothing really to feed on at this time of year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the images of the dead shark, Klimley says he’s skeptical that the shark may have been accidentally caught in a net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pretty big shark to let go. Most fisherman out there are using salmon gear, which is ill-equipped to catch a shark,” he says. “I don’t think those people are catching a white shark and letting it go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Mchvv31LOW1pF3ckMqkcpGyLdsNN4909″]Klimley says if another shark washes up on shore, it may point to a parasitic brain infection that most recently surfaced last year, when thousands of dead sharks and rays were turning up on local beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/brain-eating-disease-kills-sharks-rays-san-francisco-bay-protozoan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October, California authorities\u003c/a> identified a microbial pathogen responsible for the killing of sharks in the San Francisco Bay in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite last year’s deaths, Ebert says the great white shark population is doing pretty well in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are frequent sightings of great white sharks,” Ebert says, and that speaks really well for the health of the Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shark scientist David Ebert says he is not aware of any other instances in California where a dead white shark led to a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can assume is that they discovered some sort of trauma, perhaps a gunshot wound that isn’t visible in any of the images I’ve seen,” says Ebert, director of the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1926348\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1926348 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-800x878.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-800x878.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-160x176.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-768x843.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-240x263.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-375x412.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1-520x571.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd of people surround the dead shark that washed ashore on a beach in Aptos, Calif., Sunday. \u003ccite>(Ashley Kern)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ebert says he would be “pretty surprised” if someone deliberately targeted the shark. State and federal laws prohibit the targeting of great white sharks but makes allowances for those accidentally caught in commercial fishing nets. In those cases, the shark should be released, or if dead, reported to the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible scenario, says Ebert, is if someone dumped the dead shark back into the ocean without reporting it, after accidentally catching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shark expert Pete Klimley says its highly unusual for a great white shark to wash up on shore at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They generally show up in August through late November and then go out into the Pacific,” he says, “so this is very odd. There’s nothing really to feed on at this time of year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the images of the dead shark, Klimley says he’s skeptical that the shark may have been accidentally caught in a net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pretty big shark to let go. Most fisherman out there are using salmon gear, which is ill-equipped to catch a shark,” he says. “I don’t think those people are catching a white shark and letting it go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Klimley says if another shark washes up on shore, it may point to a parasitic brain infection that most recently surfaced last year, when thousands of dead sharks and rays were turning up on local beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/brain-eating-disease-kills-sharks-rays-san-francisco-bay-protozoan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October, California authorities\u003c/a> identified a microbial pathogen responsible for the killing of sharks in the San Francisco Bay in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite last year’s deaths, Ebert says the great white shark population is doing pretty well in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are frequent sightings of great white sharks,” Ebert says, and that speaks really well for the health of the Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "The Era of Climate Refugees: Millions Lack Recognition or Legal Protections",
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"content": "\u003cp>This month, diplomats from around the world met in New York and Geneva to hash out a pair of new global agreements that aim to lay out new guidelines for how countries should deal with \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an unprecedented surge\u003c/a> in the number of displaced people, which has now reached 65.6 million worldwide.[contextly_sidebar id=”x8vQeWj5IftQurJWmJZ0kbnNWfMHPz0i”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one emerging category that seems to be getting short shrift in the conversation: so-called “climate refugees,” who currently lack any formal definition, recognition or protection under international law even as the scope of their predicament becomes more clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2008, an average of \u003ca href=\"http://www.internal-displacement.org/database/displacement-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">24 million people\u003c/a> have been displaced by catastrophic weather disasters each year. As climate change worsens storms and droughts, climate scientists and migration experts expect that number to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, climate impacts that unravel over time, like desert expansion and sea level rise, are also forcing people from their homes: A \u003ca href=\"https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Bank report\u003c/a> in March projects that within three of the most vulnerable regions — sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America — 143 million people could be displaced by these impacts by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ejfoundation.org/what-we-do/climate/on-the-front-line-of-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bangladesh\u003c/a>, hundreds of thousands of people are routinely uprooted by coastal flooding, many making a treacherous journey to the slums of the capital, Dhaka. In West Africa, the almost total disappearance of Lake Chad because of desertification has empowered terrorists and forced \u003ca href=\"http://www.globaldtm.info/lake-chad-basin-crisis-monthly-dashboard-1-april-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than four million people\u003c/a> into camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem in the United States as well. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puerto-rico-crisis/2-300-puerto-rican-families-displaced-hurricane-maria-are-about-n880356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated 2,300 Puerto Rican families\u003c/a> displaced by Hurricane Maria are still looking for permanent housing, while government officials have spent years working to preemptively relocate more than a dozen small coastal communities in \u003ca href=\"https://thinkprogress.org/newtok-alaska-gets-relocation-funding-35b4434242a6/\">Alaska\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/louisiana-climate-refugees-plan-roadblock_us_5ab402ade4b008c9e5f55c1b\">Louisiana\u003c/a> that are disappearing into the rising sea.[contextly_sidebar id=”D4QCdbxZQ91rfuAbMyMHMW5HkskZEoC6″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A December study by Columbia University climate researchers in the peer-reviewed journal \u003cem>Science \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6370/1610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projected\u003c/a> that if global temperatures continue their upward march, applications for asylum to the European Union could increase 28 percent to nearly 450,000 per year by 2100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, there’s no international agreement on who should qualify as a climate refugee — much less a plan to manage the growing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people fall through the cracks,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/people/erol-yayboke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erol Yayboke\u003c/a>, a development expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who helped author a May\u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/confronting-global-forced-migration-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> report\u003c/a> on forced migration. “It’s hard for countries to come to a consensus on something like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That difficulty took shape during the second and third weeks of June in the latest round of negotiations on the \u003ca href=\"https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/intergovernmental-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Compact for Migration\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/formal-consultations-on-the-global-compact-on-refugees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Compact on Refugees\u003c/a>, which are due to be adopted at the U.N. General Assembly this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the compacts were first proposed in 2016, there was some hope among migration researchers and advocates that they could provide a platform for new international policies on climate refugees, which had gained prominence since the 2015 Paris climate talks. But that hope was quashed in March, when Louise Arbour, the U.N. official leading the migration compact — which, of the two agreements, was considered the more likely venue for strong climate language — \u003ca href=\"https://www.devex.com/news/global-compact-for-migration-not-the-answer-for-climate-refugees-un-representative-92373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the European Union\u003c/a> that the document would not grant “specific legal international protection to climate-induced migrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both compacts do make some reference to the climate. The \u003ca href=\"https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180528_draft_rev_2_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest draft of the migration compact\u003c/a> calls on U.N. members to “better map, understand, predict and address migration movements, including those resulting from sudden- and slow-onset natural disasters, environmental degradation, the adverse effects of climate change” and “cooperate to identify, develop and strengthen solutions, including planned relocation and visa options” for climate migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/5b1579427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refugee compact\u003c/a> stops much shorter, only mentioning climate as one of many factors that “may interact with the drivers of refugee movements.”[contextly_sidebar id=”O3EfVhrV8r5HT4P1mtehPYL7SpXnb3Fe”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, the compacts should encourage countries to create new legal processes to document and manage climate migrants “so people can move before the water is literally lapping at their feet,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.sais-jhu.edu/users/nhall20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nina Hall\u003c/a>, a migration expert at Johns Hopkins University. As an example, she cited a plan in New Zealand to \u003ca href=\"https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-creates-special-refugee-visa-for-pacific-islanders-affected-by-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer up to 100 special climate visas\u003c/a> to Pacific Islanders — although that process is still in development and isn’t likely to open for several years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the language in the compacts is too vague to spur much progress, she says, and in any case neither compact will be legally binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be up front that the global compacts are not going to transform the landscape for climate migrants,” Hall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate refugees pose a number of unique challenges for international policymakers compared to those displaced by persecution, the traditional driver recognized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/1951-refugee-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1951 UN Refugee Convention\u003c/a>. While some people, like the Puerto Ricans displaced by Maria, are affected by a specific disaster, many others are forced to move because of slow-onset changes like sea level rise and desertification, which can make it hard to identify them as climate refugees. Researchers are still working to understand how climate change interacts with the panoply of other factors, including national security and local economic trends, that might prompt a family to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the majority of today’s climate refugees are displaced within the borders of their own country, whereas the new compacts focus exclusively on cross-border movement. And for Pacific island nations that face a truly existential threat from sea level rise, there’s no legal precedent to guide how they might relocate to new territory in another country — if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/no-retreat-climate-change-and-voluntary-immobility-pacific-islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even want to move\u003c/a>. Even a comparatively simpler effort — \u003ca href=\"http:/isledejeancharles.la.gov/phase-1-resettlement-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to relocate a community of fewer than 100 people in Louisiana\u003c/a> whose island home, Isle de Jean Charles, has lost 98 percent of its land to sea level rise since the 1950s, to a new town 40 miles inland — has taken several years and cost $50 million and still faces setbacks, including complaints from the predominantly Native American residents that the state government didn’t adequately involve them in the planning process.[contextly_sidebar id=”00I9yE15Q12hdFS6dQtjFHE8BfPMVmHE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is there are tens of millions of these people, and we don’t agree on what we can do about them,” Yayboke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the wave of nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment that has swept across Europe and the U.S. in recent years has made it a challenge for the U.N. to even get governments to follow existing refugee protocol, let alone expand it to cover an entirely new class of refugee, Hall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get any progressive international policy, much less hard law, is almost impossible in today’s climate,” she says. “We’re not going to get any kind of binding convention on displaced people due to climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. pulled out of the migration compact in December, \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363014-us-pulls-out-of-global-compact-on-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citing concerns\u003c/a> that it could impede the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. While that means the final agreement will be missing any commitment from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/top-25-destinations-international-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world’s number-one migrant destination\u003c/a>, it does remove a potential roadblock to including climate-specific language, given Trump’s disbelief in climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, the global compacts aren’t the end of the issue. A different U.N. task force that was established in the Paris climate agreement is set to deliver a new set of recommendations on climate refugees around the same time the compacts are adopted. They will likely focus on measures individual countries can take to prevent climate refugees from being displaced in the first place, says \u003ca href=\"https://sidw.org/mariam-traore-chazalnoel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mariam Traore Chazalnoel\u003c/a>, a climate expert at the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t actually want to migrate,” she says. “They would rather stay where they are. But they need the \u003cem>means\u003c/em> to stay where they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could include programs to train and equip farmers for drought tolerance, she says, raise homes out of flood plains, and other measures aimed at increasing communities’ resilience to climate shocks. Yayboke believes that development agencies need to step up funding for climate adaptation programs, which can help prevent displacement and reduce government spending on recovery from predictable natural disasters later on.[contextly_sidebar id=”lD8t2ypUt2JcYfF677KFvdPB7yFAlEBd”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are spending so much money on this stuff, but we’re being totally reactive,” he says. “There are proactive things we can do that we’re just not doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few places are more illustrative of that problem than Bangladesh. According to the CSIS report, up to 70 percent of the five million people living in Dhaka’s slums were displaced from their original home by environmental disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation and scope of this problem is entirely new, and of biblical proportions,” says Steve Trent, executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation, which released its own \u003ca href=\"https://ejfoundation.org/reports/climate-displacement-in-bangladesh\">report\u003c/a> on Bangladesh in 2017. “It demands an entirely new legal convention. The global compacts are a start, but it’s clear that they’re not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.timmcdonnell.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Tim McDonnell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist covering the environment, conflict and related issues in sub-Saharan Africa. Follow him on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/timmcdonnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/timothy.m.mcdonnell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Refugees+The+World+Barely+Pays+Attention+To&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This month, diplomats from around the world met in New York and Geneva to hash out a pair of new global agreements that aim to lay out new guidelines for how countries should deal with \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an unprecedented surge\u003c/a> in the number of displaced people, which has now reached 65.6 million worldwide.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one emerging category that seems to be getting short shrift in the conversation: so-called “climate refugees,” who currently lack any formal definition, recognition or protection under international law even as the scope of their predicament becomes more clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2008, an average of \u003ca href=\"http://www.internal-displacement.org/database/displacement-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">24 million people\u003c/a> have been displaced by catastrophic weather disasters each year. As climate change worsens storms and droughts, climate scientists and migration experts expect that number to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, climate impacts that unravel over time, like desert expansion and sea level rise, are also forcing people from their homes: A \u003ca href=\"https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Bank report\u003c/a> in March projects that within three of the most vulnerable regions — sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America — 143 million people could be displaced by these impacts by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ejfoundation.org/what-we-do/climate/on-the-front-line-of-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bangladesh\u003c/a>, hundreds of thousands of people are routinely uprooted by coastal flooding, many making a treacherous journey to the slums of the capital, Dhaka. In West Africa, the almost total disappearance of Lake Chad because of desertification has empowered terrorists and forced \u003ca href=\"http://www.globaldtm.info/lake-chad-basin-crisis-monthly-dashboard-1-april-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than four million people\u003c/a> into camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem in the United States as well. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puerto-rico-crisis/2-300-puerto-rican-families-displaced-hurricane-maria-are-about-n880356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated 2,300 Puerto Rican families\u003c/a> displaced by Hurricane Maria are still looking for permanent housing, while government officials have spent years working to preemptively relocate more than a dozen small coastal communities in \u003ca href=\"https://thinkprogress.org/newtok-alaska-gets-relocation-funding-35b4434242a6/\">Alaska\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/louisiana-climate-refugees-plan-roadblock_us_5ab402ade4b008c9e5f55c1b\">Louisiana\u003c/a> that are disappearing into the rising sea.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A December study by Columbia University climate researchers in the peer-reviewed journal \u003cem>Science \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6370/1610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projected\u003c/a> that if global temperatures continue their upward march, applications for asylum to the European Union could increase 28 percent to nearly 450,000 per year by 2100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, there’s no international agreement on who should qualify as a climate refugee — much less a plan to manage the growing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people fall through the cracks,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/people/erol-yayboke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erol Yayboke\u003c/a>, a development expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who helped author a May\u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/confronting-global-forced-migration-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> report\u003c/a> on forced migration. “It’s hard for countries to come to a consensus on something like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That difficulty took shape during the second and third weeks of June in the latest round of negotiations on the \u003ca href=\"https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/intergovernmental-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Compact for Migration\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/formal-consultations-on-the-global-compact-on-refugees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Compact on Refugees\u003c/a>, which are due to be adopted at the U.N. General Assembly this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the compacts were first proposed in 2016, there was some hope among migration researchers and advocates that they could provide a platform for new international policies on climate refugees, which had gained prominence since the 2015 Paris climate talks. But that hope was quashed in March, when Louise Arbour, the U.N. official leading the migration compact — which, of the two agreements, was considered the more likely venue for strong climate language — \u003ca href=\"https://www.devex.com/news/global-compact-for-migration-not-the-answer-for-climate-refugees-un-representative-92373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the European Union\u003c/a> that the document would not grant “specific legal international protection to climate-induced migrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both compacts do make some reference to the climate. The \u003ca href=\"https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180528_draft_rev_2_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest draft of the migration compact\u003c/a> calls on U.N. members to “better map, understand, predict and address migration movements, including those resulting from sudden- and slow-onset natural disasters, environmental degradation, the adverse effects of climate change” and “cooperate to identify, develop and strengthen solutions, including planned relocation and visa options” for climate migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/5b1579427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refugee compact\u003c/a> stops much shorter, only mentioning climate as one of many factors that “may interact with the drivers of refugee movements.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, the compacts should encourage countries to create new legal processes to document and manage climate migrants “so people can move before the water is literally lapping at their feet,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.sais-jhu.edu/users/nhall20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nina Hall\u003c/a>, a migration expert at Johns Hopkins University. As an example, she cited a plan in New Zealand to \u003ca href=\"https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-creates-special-refugee-visa-for-pacific-islanders-affected-by-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer up to 100 special climate visas\u003c/a> to Pacific Islanders — although that process is still in development and isn’t likely to open for several years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the language in the compacts is too vague to spur much progress, she says, and in any case neither compact will be legally binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be up front that the global compacts are not going to transform the landscape for climate migrants,” Hall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate refugees pose a number of unique challenges for international policymakers compared to those displaced by persecution, the traditional driver recognized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/1951-refugee-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1951 UN Refugee Convention\u003c/a>. While some people, like the Puerto Ricans displaced by Maria, are affected by a specific disaster, many others are forced to move because of slow-onset changes like sea level rise and desertification, which can make it hard to identify them as climate refugees. Researchers are still working to understand how climate change interacts with the panoply of other factors, including national security and local economic trends, that might prompt a family to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the majority of today’s climate refugees are displaced within the borders of their own country, whereas the new compacts focus exclusively on cross-border movement. And for Pacific island nations that face a truly existential threat from sea level rise, there’s no legal precedent to guide how they might relocate to new territory in another country — if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/no-retreat-climate-change-and-voluntary-immobility-pacific-islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even want to move\u003c/a>. Even a comparatively simpler effort — \u003ca href=\"http:/isledejeancharles.la.gov/phase-1-resettlement-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to relocate a community of fewer than 100 people in Louisiana\u003c/a> whose island home, Isle de Jean Charles, has lost 98 percent of its land to sea level rise since the 1950s, to a new town 40 miles inland — has taken several years and cost $50 million and still faces setbacks, including complaints from the predominantly Native American residents that the state government didn’t adequately involve them in the planning process.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is there are tens of millions of these people, and we don’t agree on what we can do about them,” Yayboke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the wave of nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment that has swept across Europe and the U.S. in recent years has made it a challenge for the U.N. to even get governments to follow existing refugee protocol, let alone expand it to cover an entirely new class of refugee, Hall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get any progressive international policy, much less hard law, is almost impossible in today’s climate,” she says. “We’re not going to get any kind of binding convention on displaced people due to climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. pulled out of the migration compact in December, \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363014-us-pulls-out-of-global-compact-on-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citing concerns\u003c/a> that it could impede the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. While that means the final agreement will be missing any commitment from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/top-25-destinations-international-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world’s number-one migrant destination\u003c/a>, it does remove a potential roadblock to including climate-specific language, given Trump’s disbelief in climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, the global compacts aren’t the end of the issue. A different U.N. task force that was established in the Paris climate agreement is set to deliver a new set of recommendations on climate refugees around the same time the compacts are adopted. They will likely focus on measures individual countries can take to prevent climate refugees from being displaced in the first place, says \u003ca href=\"https://sidw.org/mariam-traore-chazalnoel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mariam Traore Chazalnoel\u003c/a>, a climate expert at the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t actually want to migrate,” she says. “They would rather stay where they are. But they need the \u003cem>means\u003c/em> to stay where they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could include programs to train and equip farmers for drought tolerance, she says, raise homes out of flood plains, and other measures aimed at increasing communities’ resilience to climate shocks. Yayboke believes that development agencies need to step up funding for climate adaptation programs, which can help prevent displacement and reduce government spending on recovery from predictable natural disasters later on.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are spending so much money on this stuff, but we’re being totally reactive,” he says. “There are proactive things we can do that we’re just not doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few places are more illustrative of that problem than Bangladesh. According to the CSIS report, up to 70 percent of the five million people living in Dhaka’s slums were displaced from their original home by environmental disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation and scope of this problem is entirely new, and of biblical proportions,” says Steve Trent, executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation, which released its own \u003ca href=\"https://ejfoundation.org/reports/climate-displacement-in-bangladesh\">report\u003c/a> on Bangladesh in 2017. “It demands an entirely new legal convention. The global compacts are a start, but it’s clear that they’re not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Researchers estimate the leak rate to be 2.3 percent, versus the current EPA estimate of 1.4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the percentages seem small, the volume represents enough natural gas to fuel 10 million homes — lost gas worth an estimated $2 billion,” the EDF said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/media/new-study-finds-us-oil-and-gas-methane-emissions-are-60-percent-higher-epa-reports-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement that accompanied \u003c/a>the study.[contextly_sidebar id=”MPVsKnBjZurL3IhMGvXX5Gu6hV9YrO0N”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, the oil and gas sector emits 13 million metric tons of methane per year, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers found that the environmental impact of methane leaks in 2015 was roughly the same as carbon dioxide emissions from all U.S. coal plants operating that year. The problem spotlights a key challenge for an industry operating in an increasingly competitive, low-carbon economy. 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