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Matthew Yi at the San Francisco Chronicle (11/15/2008) writes about this new executive order. Something that will, no doubt, have impacts at the local level too.
Read the whole article here:
Governor tells staff to prepare for warming

Excerpt:
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Friday directing state agencies to study the effects of global warming and recommend how the state needs to adapt to such changes in land use planning and building new infrastructure.

Source: AFP: June 17, 2008
The Jason 2 satellite will keep sea-level data stream going for some years.

You can read the original article here: Satellite for tracking sea levels set for launch

Excerpt below:
"The French-US satellite Jason 2, slated for lift-off Friday from California, will provide precise monitoring of rising sea levels and currents and track the effects of climate change.

Source: ABC7, Los Angeles, December 11, 2007 By Dallas Raines

'Losing battle?' Calif. sea level rising

The video is available above.

"Are California's beaches shrinking? According to a recent EPA report, the sea level is rising along most of the U.S. coastlines. So what does that mean for Southern California?

California's 1,100 miles of coastline is home to some of the most expensive real estate in the world.

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.

The San Francisco Chronicle (April 3, 2007) reports on the effects that this recent ruling might have on California's efforts to reduce the c02 emissions of automobiles:

"The campaign led by California to combat global warming at the state level took a giant step forward Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration's hands-off approach to climate change and pushed the government toward regulation of greenhouse gases.

With water rising at the Golden Gate Bridge and snowpack melting earlier in the year, California faces a double dilemma caused by climate change. The Contra Costa Times, January 22, 2007 describes how climate scientists are predicting a rocky future for California's waters users and coastal residents:

"More than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers have been published on climate change and California's water, studies that range from technical reports meant to improve how scientists can more accurately regionalize climate change projections, to how Californians might adapt to them, to documenting changes already taking place.

I Found this map of the southern California region showing where the sea level was a few million years ago. Of course there has also been movement of land both lifting and lateral movement since then, so the map is very much an approximation.

NOTE however, that almost all of what is now coastal California... up to and including the Grapevine summit, was underwater. The top of Camino Cielo was beachfront.

The map was done in the 1930s.

It is from:
Reed, R.D., and Hollister, J.S., 1936, Structural evolution of southern California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 20, no. 12, p. 1529-1704.

This is just out from Reuters:
California sues carmakers

Note that the suit is for future damages.

More soon.