http://science.kqed.org/quest/2007/12/06/rising-seas/ Explore science, nature and environment stories from Northern California and beyond with KQED’s multimedia series Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://science.kqed.org/quest/2007/12/06/rising-seas/#comment-11021 Linus Hollis ScD Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:26:38 +0000 http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2007/12/06/rising-seas/#comment-11021 It's more like a trillion dollars [$1,000,000,000,000] of infrastructure, counting all the roadways, piers, ports, bridge accesses, etc... Imagine the bay looking like Highway 5 in Washington after that big storm whenever we have a high tide: intolerable. The permanent solution is to dike and lock the Golden Gate. Incredible side benefit: no more water crisis. It doesn't take much fresh water to keep the bay at its present level of salinity. Since the bay won't have tides, the wetlands will become riparian in seasonality-a natural adaptation. Sea creatures will have to have their own way in and out, but I lost all the engineering specs on that when my iMac crashed and the Zip disks don't work any more. Are their any alternatives? It's more like a trillion dollars [$1,000,000,000,000] of infrastructure, counting all the roadways, piers, ports, bridge accesses, etc…
Imagine the bay looking like Highway 5 in Washington after that big storm whenever we have a high tide: intolerable. The permanent solution is to dike and lock the Golden Gate. Incredible side benefit: no more water crisis. It doesn't take much fresh water to keep the bay at its present level of salinity. Since the bay won't have tides, the wetlands will become riparian in seasonality-a natural adaptation. Sea creatures will have to have their own way in and out, but I lost all the engineering specs on that when my iMac crashed and the Zip disks don't work any more.
Are their any alternatives?

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