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Today's (July 3) Santa Barbara Sound also covers the City Council meeting.

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In today's (Monday, July 2) edition of the Santa Barbara Newsroom, Melissa Evans covers tomorrow's Santa Barbara City Council vote on the lightblueline action.

You can read the original here:
Council To Consider Visual Markers of Climate Change

Below is the text of the article:

In today's Independent, Nick Welsh covers the anticipated City Council vote next week:

Source: Scientific American: June 25, 2007

By Gerard Wynn

LONDON (Reuters) - New research shows that man-made climate change could cause the Greenland ice sheet to break up in hundreds, rather than thousands, of years, the chair of a United Nations panel of scientists said on Monday.

Its entire collapse would raise sea-levels globally by around 7 meters (23 feet), they said.

In Sunday's New York Times (June 16, 2007, Art & Design Section) Randy Kennedy wrote about Eve Mosher's efforts to "draw the line" in NYC.

Eve is the creative force behind HighWaterLine. In partnership with the Canary Project (which is also partnering with lightblueline on the Santa Barbara City Hall exhibit), Eve is out in the streets of New York, chalking the 10 foot elevation line as this runs through the buroughs.

The Daily Mail (June 20, 2007) reports on a research article published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A:

"A group of US scientists may have given the clearest warning yet that global warming is presenting an imminent threat to civilisation.

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) today announced the Assembly passed legislation that requires local coastal governments, and those surrounding the San Francisco Bay, to consider the impacts of sea level rise when amending general plans.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE British Antarctic Survey, June 5, 2007

"Hundreds of glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula are flowing faster, further adding to sea level rise according to new research published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Climate warming, that is already causing Antarctic Peninsula increased summer snow melt and ice shelf retreat, is the most likely cause.

In an article published in Environmental Research Letters on May 24, 2007, James Hansen, NASA scientist, discusses the non-linearity of shelf ice melting and the reticence of scientists to announce their fears about this process. The whole article is worth a read. Below is just the section on sea-level rise risks:

The San Francisco Chronicle (May 24, 2007) notes that the Berkeley City Council has passed a measure aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050:

"While San Francisco, Oakland and other local governments in the Bay Area have approved policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Berkeley is the first to begin spelling out how people would be expected to reduce their carbon footprints.