CityofGoletaSource: City of Goleta
King Tides are the highest high tides of the year, about a foot or two higher than average high tides, which is what we expect to see during the next few decades. The California King Tides Project (a partnership of state and federal agencies and non-profit organizations including the California Coastal Commission and many others) helps to visualize future sea level by observing the highest high tides of today and how those tides interact with our coastal infrastructure, recreation areas, and ecosystems.
You can participate in the California King Tides Project by safely taking photos of the King Tides on November 15-16 and December 13-15 and uploading them to the California King Tides Project website; instructions available here.
Understanding what a King Tide looks like today will help plan for sea level rise in the future and be a motivator to stop burning fossil fuels. Sharing your photos and talking about what you’ve noticed helps others understand that they’re part of a community that cares about climate change.
It’s important to learn about and communicate the impacts of sea level rise in order to responsibly manage our coast today and in the future. Sea level rise is caused by increasing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which acts like a blanket trapping in heat that would otherwise escape. When fossil fuels are burned (such as coal, oil, or natural gas), we add more carbon dioxide, thickening this blanket and warming the planet’s atmosphere and the ocean. Sea level rises as glaciers and ice sheets melt into the ocean and because water expands in volume as it warms.
The photos you take help document current flood risk, visualize the impacts of future sea level rise, ground-truth climate change models, and serve as a living record of change for future generations. The photos may be used in presentations, exhibitions, websites, and publications; for research and planning; and by students and educators learning about our world.
Learn more about the California King Tides Project at www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides.
Au contraire! Nice try though…because it was not only suggested…the city counsel approved it (before ultimately back tracking). How quickly we forget…
“Bruce Caron, who holds a Ph.D. in urban social anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, proposed the 12-inch wide blue line, which would represent the extent of sea-level rise predicted by Al Gore in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, if all of Greenland’s snow pack were to melt.
The Santa Barbara city council initially approved the project in July but changed its mind in the wake of strong protests from a diverse group of city residents.”
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/santa-barbara-rejects-global-warming-blue-line?source=policybot
https://www.independent.com/2020/03/04/the-light-blue-line-13-years-later/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/resilience.1.2.007?seq=1
Does the eco B.S. ever end?
Come on man, don’t read it if you don’t want to.
Let’s paint a blue line around Santa Barbara to protect us from the King Tides.
Nice try, but no one ever suggested painting an actual blue line, that rumor was debunked years ago. The blue line was “virtual” …