That’s sorta the question Warmist Zachary Slobig asks
Is It Time for San Francisco to Declare Defeat in Its Battle With the Pacific?
In a future in which sea levels are expected to rise some three to four feet by the end of the century, San Francisco is in a precarious position—the city is surrounded by water on three sides. Its Pacific face is battered by winter storms and swells that scrape those sandy western fringes, chewing up the southernmost stretch of the coastal road, called the Great Highway. The ocean has slowly, relentlessly clawed at this byway since it was first fully paved in the late 1920s. For nearly a century the city has taken all sorts of approaches to defending its wild border from the Pacific—sea walls, man-made dunes, even gigantic piles of repurposed tombstones fashioned into crude revetments.
Apparently, they have some sort of Master Plan to deal with the problem, which is of course caused by Mankind. But, really, is San Fran Doooooomed by sea rise? Will they see 3 to 4 feet of sea rise by the 2100? The actual data says something quite different from the models
A trend of .66 feet. Big whoop. Like I wrote in regards to Florida sea rise
This is completely in line with the average sea rise over the last 7,000 years during the Holocene. That time period is used because that’s when the massive sea rise from the end of the glacial period ended. One would actually expect much more sea rise during even a low level warm period, since a cool period would see very low to decreasing sea levels, in order to create an average. We should expect more than three quarters of a foot. None of which would mean anthropogenic causation.
Looking at other parts of California
- San Diego: .68 feet per century
- La Jolla: .68 feet
- Newport: .73 feet
- Los Angeles, which has a nice long data set: .27 feet
- Santa Monica: .43 feet
- Alameda: .27 feet
- And then there’s Crescent City, which has a trend of negative .21 feet, with data going back to 1933, and goes to 2006.
Obviously, Warmists think that models are more important than real world data.
