A $200,000 Coastal Conservancy grant okayed by the supervisors on 7/1 will allow the county, over the next two years, to look at how climate change could affect Santa Barbara’s coastal areas and seaside infrastructure. County staff will model possible scenarios to pinpoint which spots are most susceptible. The money — coupled with $50,000 from the county and $22,000 from the Nature Conservancy — will pay for the first phase of a two-part program, which will focus more on policy; the county will seek out a similar grant for the second phase.
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Forget climate change, get the water problem fixed!
RickSuddes (anonymous profile)
July 2, 2014 at 4:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"NOAA Quietly Reinstates July 1936 -- Not July 2012 -- As Hottest Month On Record"
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/30/noa...
LOL.....
loonpt (anonymous profile)
July 2, 2014 at 4:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Since deniers like RickSuddes and loonpt are actually representative of the general population in the United States (and maybe worldwide) it is unlikely that we humans will be able to commit ourselves to the policies necessary to halt or reverse global climate change. Therefore, it will become ever more necessary for us to concentrate on adapting to climate change rather than trying to reverse it. Studies like the one that is the subject of this article will help us to focus our adaptation policies where they will be most effective. Adapting to the "water issue" is part of all this. Luckily for Santa Barbara, we're rich and will ultimately adapt by throwing money at any inconvenient results of climate change. As always, it will be the poor who suffer the most.
Eckermann (anonymous profile)
July 2, 2014 at 8:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I disagree that they're representative, they're just the most bored with nothing to do.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
July 2, 2014 at 8:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
the fact that people such as Rick think the two are unrelated speaks volumes of how our freedom, education and religious practices have failed the planet. I pity the generations to come.
spacey (anonymous profile)
July 3, 2014 at 1:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wait, so it doesn't bother you that our hottest summer on record was 1936?
It doesn't bother you that antarctic ice coverage is at a RECORD ALL TIME HIGH???
It doesn't bother you that there has been a global warming "pause" for the last 18 years??
It doesn't bother you that over 95% of climate models have horrendously over-stated what our current temperatures would be?
It doesn't bother you that we just had a mini-ice age in the late 1700s and so a natural cycle of increased average temperatures would be expected whether man was outputing more CO2 or not?
You guys are the science deniers, not me. This has nothing to do with "being bored", this all has to do with being able to use my own reason and logic without assuming that the establishment and mainstream media are always right. If you are just assuming that the mainstream media and establishment are right, then you aren't using science, reasoning or logic at all. You are being deceived.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
July 3, 2014 at 2:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Manmade Global Warming theory is being used to consolidate large energy corporations and raise prices for the consumer - that's you and me.
MSNBC is owned by GE. GE produces energy. Think about it, they pass more regulations against CO2 and their competitors are costed out of the market, prices go up and GE gets to charge more money and make more profit. This is basic economics. I have economics and science on my side, all you have is a corporate backed mainstream media and establishment backed climate organizations who are lying to you so that they can get ahead.
You're too busy blaming the Koch Brothers when they are part of the establishment and are doing very little to further the cause of anti-manmade global warming science.. their job is to be one of those pictures they put on a dartboard and give you darts to throw at it so you feel better about yourself. They are a manufactured enemy.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
July 3, 2014 at 2:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"freedom, education and religious practices have failed the planet."
Can you explain what compulsory education and wars of aggression waged based on religious beliefs have to do with freedom?
loonpt (anonymous profile)
July 3, 2014 at 2:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wars based on religious beliefs are waged to inflict those belief systems on others. If you don't believe in climate change, why are the world's oceans rising and weather patterns changing? Do you realize that in itself is climate change? Do you even take yourself seriously anymore Loon?
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
July 3, 2014 at 3:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I believe in climate change, I believe the climate changes. I just said we are coming out of a mini-ice age that peaked in the late 1700s, did you skip over that part? Why would you say I don't believe in climate change? I don't understand why my words get twisted and changed around so much.
If you believe climate change is so serious, then why was our hottest summer on record back in 1936?
So anyways since we are coming out of a mini ice age global temperatures should be increasing on average at some level, but there's no proof that CO2 has anything to do with it, it is very likely wholly or completely from natural temperature cycles and solar cycles.
Back in the 1300s we had high temperatures than we do today and higher CO2 concentrations. Can you explain why we had higher temperature and CO2 concentrations before the Industrial Revolution? Can you explain why ocean levels have remained relatively consistent during all of this time? Ya, the ocean is rising, like 3mm a year... and it may start going back down soon, who knows? But there's no proof that hotter temperatures cause the ocean to rise, in fact while the ice caps may melt and have some impact hotter temps also cause more water to get stored in the atmosphere.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
July 3, 2014 at 4:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)