SFGate: Global Warming - Consequences Of A Rising Bay (maps)

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CONSEQUENCES OF A RISING BAY

GLOBAL WARMING: New set of maps reveals how melting polar ice could change shoreline and carry a high price for entire region
Jane Kay, Chronicle Environment Writer

Sunday, February 18, 2007

New maps show that neighborhoods and roads in many cities near the San Francisco Bay shoreline would be under water if global warming causes tides to rise as much as 3 feet in the coming decades, and officials say regions face key decisions about where people will be able to live and build.

The maps, which the Bay Conservation and Development Commission prepared for The Chronicle, offer a detailed look at how a changing shoreline would affect life around the bay.

Parts of Corte Madera, San Rafael, Hayward and Newark and much of the Silicon Valley shoreline would be under water, including a portion of Moffett Field, the site of NASA Ames Research Center, where Google wants to build a 1 million-square-foot campus.

On the edge of the rising waters would be stadium sites proposed for the 49ers -- in Santa Clara and at the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco. Fremont's proposed site for the Oakland A's ballpark also could be vulnerable to flooding in the 21st century, the maps show.

Wastewater treatment plants for more than a dozen cities in the South Bay, including San Jose, and the industrial ponds for the Valero oil refinery in Benicia and the Chevron refinery in Richmond, would be inundated by the projected rise in the bay.

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1. This is the key squabble about global warming,,,what is its impact

Even the "deniers" are not saying that there has not been a long term warming trend, though some claim its cyclic. They contest impact and results, where Gore and others are the weakest, and have suffered from using hyperbole.