Mon, Mar 16, 2009 -- 9:00 AM Oceans RisingDownload audio (MP3)
Sea levels may rise twice as much by the end of this century
than was previously predicted. That's according to an
announcement last week by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. Also last week, the Oakland-based Pacific
Institute released a study finding that hundreds of thousands of
people and billions of dollars of California infrastructure and
property will be at risk if ocean levels rise 55 inches. What
should we do to prepare? Host: Michael Krasny - Craig Miller,
senior editor of KQED's Climate Watch - Peter Gleick, president
of the Pacific Institute, a non-partisan research institute on
the environment and social equity - Will Travis, executive
director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission