Coastal To Start Planning Based On 10-Foot Ocean Rise
Written by 991KBU on August 3, 2018
The California coastal commission now estimates that ocean levels will increase along the coast by 10 feet in the next 80 years.
And the state is getting ready to an act policies to get ready for that.
At the California coastal commission meeting this month … the state will will likely adopt new projections to be used in planning efforts up and down the coast.
Notably these projections include an extreme case scenario based on recent studies regarding the possibility of rapid ice sheet loss.
That’s double the level that had been projected as the base of coastal commission policies earlier this decade.
This scenario includes the projection curve that results in ~10ft. of sea level rise by 2100.
The State Coastal Conservancy estimates that just a 5 foot sea level rise will flood over half of California’s beaches, rocky intertidal, coastal marshes, and tidal flats.
The commission will meet this month in Redondo Beach.
