Bay Area 2050: How climate change will impact region over next few decades 

We have so many micro climates but we need scientist's input, not politicians or business corporations. We need micro detailed solutions.Many areas are pressured to cut down trees, wells are becoming unpredictable, LA should stop housing growth due to water issues.

Just pay more taxes...it'll be fine.

Maybe we can quit mono-cropping grapes up here in Sonoma/Napa and do something more useful with the amazing growing climate we have.

So good to see that communities are taking action. Every little bit counts. We can’t just wring our hands and be paralyzed by the inevitability of change.

Regarding the fog, as a life long San Franciscan, I noticed the last 15 years that the fog (Carl) is less often than before. To reduce climate changes, every country has to be on the same page.

Wine is a critical food source? Luxury. Stop driving, building, flying and living extreme consumption lives...it's actually gross.

Impeccably presented. Thank you. Albeit a Dutchman, I grew up in the Bay Area in the '60s and '70s. I now live again in the fatherland in glorious Middelburg. I no longer have a car, and I walk, cycle or take the train everywhere. I am doing what I can to save the planet... in my own small way.

2050 there will be 50 feet ft of shit on every corner😂😂😂😂😂

As long as we have an economic structure that depends on continuous growth, we'll keep marching toward failure. The actual fundamental that is relevant is that energy and materials are necessary to provide products and services. Do energy and materials replenish at the rate of consumption? Lol, no. Neglecting the second order effects of the waste products and process of acquiring energy and materials, the whole concept of continuous GDP growth ad infinitum is a fairytale. Is there any serious societal move to address this? Lol, no. We're in for some serious shit.

Yeah… we’re screwed 🙂

Optimistic. Decades? No, sorry. Years, maybe. Change by people? Not going to happen. It's been fun tho', right? Well, for humans. The rest of life, not so much. We had the Perfect Paradise, but we used and abused it because we could. And now people can't believe that ALL life is going to suffer for what we have done.

Imo the biggest crisis in the Bay Area is that it is over populated and over priced. Fixing the homelessness problem should be priority #1. Growing up I was taught that if you had a full time job you'd be able to afford to live and have a place of your own even if you were making just minimum wage. The fact that a single person has to make close to $100,000 a year in order to afford living comfortably in the Bay Area is the real disaster.

This big push to force everyone back into the office for work isn’t helping. As more people continue driving and using gas, it’s just making the problems worse. But these older people in top executive positions could care less and they won’t be here to see the aftermath of what they are doing all for the sake of controlling and micromanaging their workforce

Pretty sad we are leaving a mess for our kids. Beside the massive suburban sprawl into the valleys, wine vines are a toxic huge monoculture that has destroyed much of the trees, bushes, grasses and natural habitat for birds, butterflies, and other wild animals.

What they won't tell you is that sea level is rising ~3mm/yr while San Francisco is subsiding ~10mm/yr.

Will the weather be crazy enough to slow the criminals?

5' defensible space?! That's about 95' short of what is needed in the wildlands.

It's wild that a very small percentage of earth's population are responsible for the continuation of its destruction.

- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago and the cancer will go away - I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change and global warming, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010. Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us 1000 years to the past of the universe. Today May 25, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 129 thousand years ago. On october 13, 2026 the state of our universe will be at the point 6 million years in the past. On june 04, 2051 the state of our universe will be at the point 15 million years in the past. On june 28, 2092 the state of our universe will be at the point 30 million years in the past. On april 02, 2147 the state of our universe will be at the point 50 million years in the past. The result is that the universe is heading back to the point where it started and today we live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago. Mohamed BOUHAMIDA, teacher of mathematics and a researcher in number theory.

Rise in temperature chart doesn’t make sense, temperature rise is accelerating and won’t decrease in 2050.

I think we should allow for some waterfront streets to become canals instead.

The coming US fiscal crisis will be a far greater concern overall. We won't have the money to address any of this when we are in default.

The song playing in the back ground goes hard

Good luck San Fran 😢 With your political environment there are much worse things in your future than the weather

I used to have oceanfront property in Texas but natural sediment moved the shore 50 miles away. Scientists forget nature is more powerful than they are

Ohhhhhhh i know what i want to be in my next life!! A Fog Researcher 🤍🤍🤍...😂

The last foggy summer in the avenues was summer 2009. I distinctly remember a specific day of how the fog originally was in the Sunset and havent seen a summer or day like it since.

IT IS POSSIBLE TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. WWE SHOULD COOPERATE WORLDWIDE

Oh back to 25 year predictions instead of 5 year predictions. LOL.

They have to stop building houses soo close to trees. All the wild fires destroy people's houses.

So basically Give more money to politicians so they can fix it. And of course you can trust them because they have such a good record of handling other peoples money efficiently.. This is a scam plain as day.

GLOBAL WEATHER CATASTROPHE PREDICTIONS : “The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years,” ecologist Kenneth Watt said in 1970. “If present trends continue, the world will be about 4 degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990 but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

we are still waiting for Florida to go under water for the last 42 years back then known as greenhouse effect, same zebra black or white stripes.

"There are huge non climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue that the earth is actually growing greener. This has been actually measured from satellites the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So it's increasing agricultural yields, it's increasing the forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth in the biological world and that's more important and more certain than the effects on climate." ~Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

As long as this video is telling us the future(!) why have they completely ignored the ever increasing carbon taxes collected by governments? Isn't all that money supposed to fix the climate? Why isn't THAT data not highlighted since, after all, that is marketed as the solution to climate change?

So when the sea never rises there they will say see we fixed it..

Amsterdam the capital of the Netherlands has same issues with being inundated by the sea. And about the fog that his quite troubleing, because i think San Francisco is so far south that highs in 40 degree celsius or over 104 degree faranheit are possible. Not to mewntion water management issues caused by fog absence.

Good documentary! Living in SF for more than a decade made me realize the future indeed is ticking quickly. In my own little way to help is practicing the segregation of our trash and less usage of plastics.

whats the intro bgm? i keep hearing it everywhere

“I accepted to come to this meeting to have a sober and mature conversation. I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.” - Sultan Al Jaber, President of COP 28, also CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Mukhtar Babayev will be the president for COP 29; he is also a former executive of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijian Republic. Seems more and more likely, scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment may come to fruition (or at least the higher end of the spectrum). I say enjoy what you can, while you still can; pity the generations to come.

As a Bay Area native that’s been to the city 🌆 always bring a sweater!

how different is the climate 80 miles east in sacramento?

It is a beautiful landscape, it’s a special place

I moved to the northern oregon coast 5years ago after 37 years in the bay. I noticed the change in climate before leaving. What surprised me after meeting new friends and neighbors on the O Coast many lament the change in weather, less fog and drizzle, and more summer heat and extreme weather. This includes neighbors that identify as climate change deniers.

I love space heaters in the arctic

It's true for 20 years of what you said, but we can reduce the effect by peace. Be nicer and good mind,. Use our thoughts and actions to move the ONE who is controlling all these calamities befalling onto us, change wickness instilled into us by the wrong society. Our action brings the karma we are facing. Sadly nobody believes in this now because humans become arrogance, selfish, greedy, dishonest, ungrateful, egoistic, jealousy. It's not the weather that gone crazy, it's us human.

If all Californians would just quit driving their cars and move inland!

We cannot do much or any prescribed burning due to the lack of a sufficient 'window' of optimum wind, thermal, moisture conditions in British Columbia. Most public announcements of a prescribed burn are cancelled. It is like there is no spring season, only summer and winter. Sooo now we are looking at biological vegetation management using cattle, sheep and goats. The goats do the best overall prescribed burning (not literally). Venting index in March and April is usually too poor in the lower valleys. I did prescribed burns for decades in the fall and late summer until we had too many escapes.

The fog is on the decline because there is less pollution. Facts....

You worry about nature destroying the Bay ? The human will destroy it before nature can 😂😂😂, have you see San Francisco now? Keep voting for Newsom than good luck, you dont need to wait till 2050 😂😂😂. Not just the Bay, but the whole California

These people are all dead, Jim!

Preparing for sea level rise, Port of San Francisco plans: 2 feet lift by 2050, 7 feet lift by 2100. Those elevations are about twice early IPCC estimates for sea level rise, which indicate a cautious approach. However, IPCC estimates are heavily affected by political influences that have been conservative. If the estimates are inaccurate, and many climate models predict substantially larger rises which are supported by unanticipated changes that continue to be observed, then the effort could be insufficient to address sea level rise. Yes, the effort costs money. Maybe responding with incremental change will prove cost effective. I hope so, though I have grave doubts.

Important story? Right? But why is everyone? Talking in question marks? Like you agree with me? Right?

Well done. Tells us the issues, now convince the peoples of the world is time to wake up!

I’m in agreement with stopping conventional development.

Why do people want to pay for fuel? When there is a cheaper option? Think about that one.

Shoreline erosion is caused mainly by offshore mining of sand for concrete, for decades. Desert sand is no good for concrete.

I've lived in San Francisco for 30 years. I first noted decreased fog about 15 years ago. It's a real issue.

LOL Get this my grandmother had a Bay front property and as the water receeded and they had landfills her proplerty was no longer bay front because they will fill in the bay and sell that property as bay front that went on for a very long time to the point you would never have known she oould have ever purchased her home as bay front property. So the idea that the water will come up and cover the land fill lol and thus make her property bay front again is HILLARIOUS TO ME. Granted she is no longer alive but I am and its amazing

They've been telling these disasters for 50 yrs

This is an important message.

Super bien cool attention 2050 futur 🥺😊

Humans deserve Mother Nature's processes for regenerating the earth.

I LOOOOVE PLAYING CATCH WITH A TORCH IN THE FOREST!!!

Cmon, it’s never gonna happen.

They said we’d be under water by now aswell yeah right lol 😂 😂😂😂😂

We are still living in and leaving a ice age more not. We and the next generations have to adapt to that.🍷

Nothing compared to the wreckage of progressive politics.

My inlaws used to live in Paradise at Tigertail lane. I think it did not get burned.

So, basically everything is linked. Setting funds aside to resolve an issue accomplish NOTHING. Give that some thoughts.

If we had a lot more electric cars, and the coal fire power plants to power them, everything would be fine!

Yes.. We Need wine to survive!! LOL!

HARP , air currents are outta control

"PLANS ARE - N O T - ABLE TO MOVE???" THAT IS WRONG, PEOPLE - THEY ARE ABLE TO MOVE.

America where the sky is gray and depressing. So disgusted at a country who is so powerful and don't allow the sun to shine.

its not warmer in nj..wish it was!

NO MENTION OF ANIMAL AGRICULTURE????????????????

~ Less Fog ..... and Temperatures in the Mid 70s ?? ~ Well sign me the Hell up for that .....

The religious commercials during this are hilariously placed. God ain't gonna save us. We had our chance in the Garden of Eden and the oil companies are burning it to the ground. Praise BigOil. Amen.

Great job, very interesting. We’re late, but it’s still time to act.

The United States is the largest source of historic CO2 emissions in total. Combine that with our gluttonous consumption on a per Capita basis and no nation can touch us. China’s emissions exceed ours, but 1/3 of their CO2 is from manufacturing. Guess who is the largest importer of Chinese Goods - it’s the Good Old US of A. I doubt anyone has done the calculations, but I’d bet that the Bay Area might be responsible for more GHG’s than any other part of the US. CO2 is highly correlated with wealth. Transportation is the number one cause of emissions for SFBA, CA, US. We should be tearing down freeways, fully funding transit, and putting bike lanes on every bridge. Merchant corridors should be car-free. Change or perish.

I find it odd 🤔....more people worry about climate change, when nations have the nuclear arsenal to destroy earth 🌎. ..... positive thing about climate change, is aquatic life will prosper. .......

As a transportation system planner I must object to the claim "The only thing we can do is stop burning fossil fuels." The problem isn't how we power our cars, trucks, shipping vessels, air freight, air travel, motorized big boy toys, etc. The problem is how much we routinely travel by car and the unsustainably long distances we transport essential goods and household commodities. The electric vehicle tech that offers most benefits, applications and potential to reduce fuel/energy consumption, emissions AND insane traffic is...wait for it...plug-in hybrid PHEV tech eventually utilizing combustible hydrogen in the ICEngines of PHEV+H drivetrains. PHEV tech is especially applicable to long-haul freight truck and trans-oceanic shipping fleets. PHEV tech is equally applicable to personal cars, vans, trucks, public transit bus fleets. PHEV+H tech can deliver more than twice the equivalent MPG possible in Hydrogen Fuel Cell EVs. All-battery BEV tech is most suitable for lightweight vehicles and short distance needs. (Only the very smartest people can see just how smart the emperor's new smart car is. The BMW subcompact "Smart Car" is the smartest BEV.)

I left my heart in San Francisco High on hill (well not so high anymore with all the flooding) It calls to me. To be where little cable cars (most of them will be underwater) Climb halfway to the stars (or at least to the 2nd floor of my apartment) The morning fog, may chill the air, I don't care. (most people won't care because it won't be there) (what you should care about is climate change) my love waits there, in San Francisco (as long as he or she can tread water) Above the blue and windy sea (no forecast for wind today or tomorrow so don't worry about your hairpiece flying away) When I get home to you San Francisco, (you probably won't find your home) your golden sun will shine for me. (about 4 hours longer and 20 degrees hotter)

If all humankind switch-off, do you think, that samething happen on Earth in short-term????

GLOBAL Warming Catastrophe Prediction - "Brown said that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program.”"

and the waters can be from the backside

We'll be the first civilization to make ourselves extinct because saving ourselves wasn't profitable. GG☠️

A Wine Documentary ? ? ?

CO2 could be the salvation as increasing CO2 allows plant life to survive and thrive with less water and reverse desertification leading to larger crop yields to feed people, wildlife and the added bonus of cooling the ground. more CO2 please 🌵🌴🌺☘🌱

The weather is changing! O my god. Keep up the Orwellian-Speak. 2050- one of those central planning years. Climate Tax - revenue without a reason, without a service. You are laughing imagining those who will believe you.

Better than in Ice Age

I am in awe that there are so many people in the comments that actually believe climate change is not a thing. Oh the bliss of denial…

I’m from the bay and I can care less about the fog

A reminder, 4000 years ago, the Bay Area was covered in half a mile of ice!

This episode is completely impartial to what is being covered! They, the presenters, need to look at the whole world 🌎! Go to China! China's has no EPA unlike U.S.

The best thing about having these prognostications on video is having evidence of their faulty predictions once 2050 gets here.

how about doin an original on black-on-asian crimes, which has largely been ignored by politicians and all media - from the local to national level?? isn’t that more public safety paramount and more important than the climate hoax??

"5 REASONS TO GET PANA MÁ 🇵🇦 RESIDENCY!!😊🙋👍🇵🇦❤️👈"

Glad I survived the ice age they predicted in the 70 's..😂