It is encouraging to see Assembly Speaker pro Tem Kevin Mullin step forward with a proposal to help deal with a very real threat facing our state and region: rising waters and wildfires. Assembly Bill 1500, a statewide general obligation resilience bond co-authored with Eduardo Garcia and members of the Bay Area Caucus, would help finance projects that will help protect the state and provide jobs (“Bond proposed to help combat climate change” in the Feb. 23 edition of the Daily Journal).
San Mateo County is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise brought about due to climate change. To combat this threat, the San Francisco Bay region needs to do many things, including installing a mix of gray and green infrastructure. It’s estimated that at least $1.5 billion is needed to fund installation of critical green infrastructure at the water’s edge. The San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment completed in 2018, found that approximately $34 billion in property is vulnerable to the impacts of flooding, along the Bayshore and on the coastside north of Half Moon Bay. AB 1500, as well as Senate Bill 45, a companion piece of legislation in the California Senate, represent a very real and important step forward in trying to secure funds to match the $500 million voters approved with the successful passage of Measure AA in 2016, to protect our region from flooding.
Voters should applaud the effort by Mr. Mullin and other members of the San Francisco Bay Area Caucus to advance measures like the climate resilience bond. This is what leadership looks like.
Mike, the voters will applaud Mr. Mullin by voting NO on this bond. If you think that climate change is so important, break out your wallet and don't bring the rest of us along on your made up crisis that needs a solution yesterday pleas. Only empty headed politicians come up with a tax when we are just coming out of a major pandemic. Some folks are just brain dead I guess and solely committed to their own agenda.
Mike - you need to understand that there is no evidence whatever of sea level rise at this stage. The projections of this massive increase in water volume on the planet is based on mathematical models, not on any discernable measurements. While there is evidence of north and south pole ice melting, the resulting melt could not possibly increase the water level, on a world wide basis, to the point that politicians and funded bureaucrats are so happy to scare us about. If you have taken any thermo-dynamics classes in college you will understand what I am attempting to convey.
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Mike, the voters will applaud Mr. Mullin by voting NO on this bond. If you think that climate change is so important, break out your wallet and don't bring the rest of us along on your made up crisis that needs a solution yesterday pleas. Only empty headed politicians come up with a tax when we are just coming out of a major pandemic. Some folks are just brain dead I guess and solely committed to their own agenda.
Mike - you need to understand that there is no evidence whatever of sea level rise at this stage. The projections of this massive increase in water volume on the planet is based on mathematical models, not on any discernable measurements. While there is evidence of north and south pole ice melting, the resulting melt could not possibly increase the water level, on a world wide basis, to the point that politicians and funded bureaucrats are so happy to scare us about. If you have taken any thermo-dynamics classes in college you will understand what I am attempting to convey.
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