{"id":10473,"date":"2011-01-20T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T01:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2018-02-02T00:54:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T00:54:57","slug":"taking-photos-from-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/01\/20\/taking-photos-from-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos From the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my vantage point this morning at the edge of San Francisco Bay at China Camp State Park <\/a>in San Rafael, today’s king tide<\/a> wasn’t all that dramatic.\u00a0 There was no flooded road, as I had been told there might be, and there was so little wind that the water level just silently crept higher, about a foot higher than usual, with zero fanfare.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday’s King Tide along the Embarcadero in San Francisco (Photo: Noah Knowles)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But I snapped photos anyway, for the Bay Area King Tide Photo Initiative<\/a>, a project aimed at documenting these extreme high tides in order to identify local areas vulnerable to sea level rise.<\/p>\n

Reportedly, things at San Francisco’s Embarcadero, however, were a little more dramatic. USGS scientist Noah Knowles was there to take pictures of yesterday’s king tide.<\/p>\n

“There was already water splashing over the sides [of the sea wall] yesterday,” he said.\u00a0 “This was of course on a very calm day, and clearly there was no storm surge, which could have added another half-meter and had the water up on the streets.”<\/p>\n

That’s the thing about sea level rise.\u00a0 The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission<\/a> (BCDC)\u00a0 advises people to plan for 11-18 inches of sea level rise by mid-century.\u00a0 That by itself might not cause huge amounts of damage on a normal day, just as today’s extra-high tide didn’t flood the road in China Camp State Park.\u00a0 What it will do, however, is raise the baseline for what a high tide is, making storm surges more apt to cause destructive flooding.<\/p>\n

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Just before the “King Tide” at China Camp State Park in San Rafael, CA (Photo: Gretchen Weber)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Knowles said that it’s important to raise awareness about what the potential effects of sea level rise could mean for the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

“I think it doesn’t always hit home how low-lying so many area around the Bay already are,” said Knowles.<\/p>\n

For photos of the king tides around the Bay Area, visit the Bay Area King Tide Photo Initiative on Flickr<\/a>, or wait for the next one on February 18th and snap your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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