You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

November 14, 2006 by mike.

Hat tip to Bobby Dylan for a good line.

Boy, the wind did blow a bit though here in the south sound this past week. And my waterlogged extended family in the WA Cascades tell me we just went through a thousand year flood. Folks are talking about more money to build, repair, and maintain dikes and levees. Levies for levees, as it were.

But down the coast a few miles, the folks in Santa Barbara, CA are taking a deep breath and a longer view. They have a developed the lightblueline project to keep the “oceanfront down at the beach.” They have a cool idea to help us see the impact of business as usual. I think Santa Barbara must be a cool city in many ways.
The premise of the lightblue line project is that a predictable worst case scenario of global warming is a 7 meter rise in sea level. That is based on the sea level rise if just the Greenland ice sheet was to melt. What can you say? That’s a big ice cube. And it is melting.

The mood of the electorate was pro-environment in the November 2006 election cycle with almost all of the US ballot initiatives dedicated to the premise that land and resource use is first and foremost an economic right went down to defeat.

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