On October 11, Emerald Keepers hosted their second annual Coronado Community Conference regarding climate change. The event welcomed a variety of speakers as well as Coronado High School (CHS) students
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With a UC San Diego expert forecasting flooding in La Jolla with nearly every high tide by the end of the century, San Diego City Councilman Joe LaCava said battling climate change, and specifically local sea-level rise, will take an approach combining “science, collaboration and grassroots advocacy.”
LaCava, whose District 1 includes La Jolla, presented a webinar May 3 titled “Sea Level Rise: Reason & Resilience.” Three local experts weighed in on the issue, describing its impacts and how communities can participate in the fight against it.
Mark Merrifield, director of the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the problem is driven by the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which has resulted in an “unprecedented” increase in global surface temperature.