SF News Alameda Puts Halt To ‘Cloud Brightening’ Experiment on USS Hornet, Saying City Didn’t Really Know About It A seemingly innovative experiment to spray sea salt into clouds to fight global warming has been underway in Alameda, but the city just hit the brakes on it, saying they were not informed of it and don’t appreciate being used as guinea pigs.
SF News Plan to ‘Lift’ the Ferry Building by Seven Feet Raises Alarm of Ferry Building Operator SF is embarking on a plan to “lift” the Embarcadero by as much as seven feet to address rising sea levels, but the Ferry Building’s operator is not taking kindly to the notion that the building could be shut down for years.
SF News Army Corps of Engineers Unveils Plan to Raise the Embarcadero as Much as 7 Feet for Rising Sea Levels Since we as a society are basically giving up and letting climate change happen, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Port of SF have released their plan to raise SF’s shoreline by as much as seven feet in response to the inevitable climate floods.
SF News Epic NY Times Feature On San Francisco Fog Makes Case That the Fog Is Slowly Disappearing Everyone’s talking about this new 5,000-word New York Times love letter and research piece about the San Francisco fog, but it describes our fair fog’s cloudy future, as evidence indicates the fog has decreased by a third over the last 50 years or so.
SF News The Current Western U.S. Drought is the Worst in 1,200 Years, Says New Study Analysis of tree-ring data says that we haven’t seen a drought like this since the year 800 A.D., or maybe longer, but the data doesn’t go back any further than that.
SF News Berkeley Scientist Sounds Alarm That the Bay Area May Be Losing Its Fog A UC Berkeley biologist says the Bay Area has lost 33% of its fog over the last 50-some years, or “basically three hours per day of fog,” in his words.
SF Politics Facebook Loophole Allows Climate Change Deniers to Have a Misinformation Field Day By labeling blatant lies as “opinion,” fossil fuel industry pundits have found “a loophole that you can drive a Mack truck through.”
SF Politics SF and Oakland Win Appeal in Global Warming Lawsuit Against Big Oil The multi-billion dollar climate damage lawsuit against BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell is back on, as SF, Oakland, and other cities won in a ruling in the 9th Circuit that likely bounces the case back to state court.
SF News Elon Musk Snubs Trump, Quits Advisory Council Over Climate Deal Exit President Trump’s Thursday withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord has elicited various denouncements and superlatives from left-wing heroes and elected officials, with reactions like “an international disgrace” (Sen. Bernie Sanders), “an insane
Arts & Entertainment Bill Nye Arrives In SF To Drop Some Science Bow-tied crusader Bill Nye the Science Guy refuses to bow out of the public eye. While his 1990s PBS show now exists only in reruns, Nye is still seen debating creationists, defending vaccinations,
SF News Day Around The Bay: $77 Billion In SF Real Estate Will Be Underwater By 2100 Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here Despite the urging of the Board of Supervisors in
SF News Senate Candidate Wants Your Vote 'So We Don't All Die' When you enter Mike Beitiks' website, iwillnotdonothing.org, you see that his message is simple. He wants us to live. "ISIS. Obamacare. Russia. The NSA. Wealth disparity. Immigration reform. Gun control. What do
SF News Bay Area, Pacific Northwest Should Be Just Swell After Climate Change Though we know that rising sea levels are going to be a terrible like, actually horrific thing globally, and that the Bay Area stands to lose our airports, among other things, weather-wise we
SF News California Drought Caused By Climate Change, Says Study A new, real-time study from Utah State University climate scientists suggests that climate change is to blame for the "dipole" situation we had this past winter, the one that caused the Polar Vortex
Arts & Entertainment Map: We're All Doomed And Under Water In 2072 Brian Stokle and Burrito Justice created this fun-filled map showing what San Francisco will look like after global warming (or "global warming") goes full tilt boogie come 2072. (Thanks, Mission Mission!) Burrito explains:
SF News Fox Nation Sees Trash In San Francisco, Fabricates Entire Story To Blame Green Activists SFist's photos of a messier-than-usual aftermath at Fort Mason last Saturday got the right wingers frothing at the mouth, apparently. After the story was picked up by the Huffington Post, conservative bloggers from
Arts & Entertainment When Global Warming Sinks SF, Who Will Get Waterfront Apartments? Perhaps inspired by recent reports that the world is sinking faster than we thought, local blogger and amateur cartographer Burrito Justice whipped up this hypothetical look at San Francisco's coastline 60 years in
SF News Coldest Summer in 40 Years Produces Hottest August Day on Record Talk about global weirding: How about that heat yesterday, huh? Tuesday was the hottest August day ever in San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service, tying the all-time high for the month
SF News Protest Pics: Bank of America Coal Rally Thingy While not nearly as exciting as Anonymous' cheeky Scientology protests, this little BofA rally managed to voice its distress with the banking company's lack of environmental consciousness. It seems BofA is, like, using
SF News Make-Me-Governor Tour: More Green Nonsense When he's not gracing photo exhibits at Valencia Street art gallery parties with Todd Oldam and John Waters (the latter, we hear, now lives in Nob Hill now. Who knew?) with his stellar
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. , which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." PGE's We Can do This, showing you what you
SF News Oklahoma, Where the Wind Comes Sweepin' Down the Plain Wha? Oklahoma's Senator, often seen as one of the loopiest one, sent a letter to the to the U.S. Transportation Department wondering if any of those funds Gavin is using to give
misc Bush to California: Choke On It The reason given is that in lieu of the recent energy bill, there's no need to have each state create their own rules, even if their rules are better than the Federal Government's.
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Some random effluvia from the weekend that was -For whatever reason, one of the big issues with the 49ers right now is Mike Nolan. Not his coaching ability (though that is now open
Arts & Entertainment Jesus Presents: Noise Pollution They're not there to persuade anyone; like Critical Mass or Dore Alley, these aggressive displays of difference just reinforce the gulf of "we're totally unlike you," rather than adopting the shrewd Scientology approach
