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In this week's (April 12, 2007) Santa Barbara Independent, Nick Welsh points out the ongoing effort that lightblueline is making to get the lines on the streets. He makes a lot of good points too about local impacts of climate change. Well barked!

The recently released (April 6, 2007) IPCC report on the impacts of climate change underwent a final day-long edit, with political input from member countries. Mostly the edits were said to lessen the certainty that the scientists had proposed for these impacts. Several scientists were reported to be upset enough about the process to not participate in the future. On April 7, Climate Science Watch posted the official report and the internal document, as well as press notices from several sources.

Last Thursday we had our main opening reception for the "Drawing the Line on Climate Change" art exhibit at Santa Barbara City Hall. Adrianne Davis and Charlene Huston, and so many other people worked to make the event very festive. The " little ice cream cones were fantastic. David Lea came to answer questions, and had a concern about a new paper predicting drought conditions in the Southwest US.

Dave Davis from the Community Environmental Council provided the following words:

This image is from the CIESIN website. It is part of a project co-authored by New York liner Deborah Balk. The maps are hosted by the NASA SEDAC program at Columbia University:
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
You can view all the maps and the report here:
LOW ELEVATION COASTAL ZONE (LECZ) URBAN-RURAL ESTIMATES

This was on the red carpet outside the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. They gave him information about lightblueline.

The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets has published a set of coastal inundation maps for several regions of the planet. NOTE: the datasets are not high-res enough to paint lines. They also have Google Map layers for the same data!

You can see these resources here:

Sea Level Rise Maps and GIS Data

BELOW: an example (downsampled) for Southeast United States.

The Seattle Times (March 28, 2007) previews a report coming out soon about the threat to coastal cities. Deborah Balk, one of the report's authors, is a liner in New York City! The report outlines vulnerabilities for coastal cities around the world:

"More than two-thirds of the world's large cities are in areas vulnerable to global warming and rising sea levels, and millions of people are at risk of being swamped by flooding and intense storms, according to a new study released today.

The Santa Barbara Public Library has joined with other organizations to promote a community-wide reading effort around the topic of Climate Change.
We are all reading the book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change,
By Elizabeth Kolbert. This book outlines the science and the public issues around climate change.
She has much to say about ice melt and sea level rise!

You can participate in any of several events, and join in the conversation.

Check out the website:
Santa Barbara Reads

Fund For Santa Barbara Executive Director, Geoff Green, gives a check to liner Bruce Caron: lightblueline is very gratified about this support!
Please visit their website to learn more about the great work they do:

Fund for Santa Barbara

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