San Francisco's Fog Could Be a Casualty of Climate Change… But It Could Also Be a Solution 

I moved to the City in June 1991..without a jacket or hoodie. I was instantly depressed but in love with the Bay Area by summer’s end.

There's actually something about the fog that's comforting to me. I moved out here to Phoenix, Arizona, & it's so darn dry, it's actually depressing.

I grew up in the peninsula, then lived many many years in the East Bay. Now that i'm back in the Peninsula, I noticed much less fog than my youth.

Nothing more comforting than the sound of fog horns at night on Nob Hill.

September, October have always been hot in San Francisco. Indian summer, this is nothing new.

its important to have this fog since a lot of plants native to california rely on fog to absorb nutrients n moisture

i work on the dumbarton and the fog has been insane on the other hand, really humid and cold temps too. Our world is in a weird place

We dont call the fog "Karl" any Bay Area native dont call it that

Years ago, I mentioned to another native when we were neighbors in the District of Columbia that I had taken the train up the Peninsula and the fog was pouring in over the mountains. She sighed, "Oh, the fog." with a sense of nostalgia. I have likened the appearance of a good fog bank to that of the mountains wearing an ermine coat. You may also wish to discuss the tule fogs over in the Central Valley. I was crossing the street one evening in Sacramento and the air was congealing around me. When it gets thick enough, it sometimes flows out to the ocean through the Carquinez Strait and the Golden Gate.

Grown up in the bay. I can say I don't miss the fog. You can go for weeks without sunshine in the winter. It's depressing. I need sunshine in my life.

I have lived in SF for about 30 years. It feels like thar climate is changing. There is less fog, heatwaves last many more days, and there are humid days which I don't remember there were in the early years even I first moved here.

When I was a young girl you could walk forever in the fog and it felt so good on your face. I always used to tell people that's why San Francisco women had such beautiful skin because of the fog. I have noticed over the years it's not the same and there's very little of it. I appreciated this. Beautiful gray damp stillness.

The fog shrouded bridge at first looks surreal! This city is beautiful with the fog 🌁

Fog is really disappearing. I remembered Chinatown was also very foggy back in the 70s. Now Chinatown does really have too much fog. I currently live in Sunset. It used to be very very foggy once passed the tunnel. This year I don’t see as much fog where feels like misty.

No one who’s native, born and raised to the Bay Area calls the fog “Karl”. Only outsides call it Karl

I remember you'd open your windows in the morning to catch the fog to keep your home cooled later in the day when we would close up the house

I live in the East Bay where there are many wine vines... I remember lots of fog here when I was younger, now it's rare to see. The vines are suffering as well.

8 months later and we had a very foggy late spring and summer. Other parts of the country sweltering in over 100 degrees temps plus humidity and it's been wonderful here in SF 😊😊😊

In the last 12 years, I noticed less fog in the City. I thought I was assuming something that people didn’t noticed.

I complained all my life… then with the fires… I miss the fog

Imagine how much fog water the golden gate bridge could be collecting. Interesting stuff.

4th gen former SF native here, and I hate to break it to you, but the climate always has, and always will, change. There is literally NOTHING we can do about it. All it takes is one good volcanic eruption to wipe out all that carbon savings we've been so worried about.

Great report, thanks for putting it together!

People that fly around on private jets don’t get to lecture us about climate change.

Same deal in LA, living there in the 70's, & 80's, there was a LOT more fog back then!!

Fog and drizzly misty weather is disappearing from Humboldt Bay too over the last 20 years. Noticable change

When i was young... East san jose fog brought the smell of garlic, i would have my window wide open, and some mornings i would run down the street like " yaaay fog i cant see my hands!" and now, no, not so much

Oh no! Our redwood and sequioa trees need the fog to survive

I can’t believe Mark Twain didn’t get credit for that quote. They didn’t give him the credit he deserves for that quote.

i wonder how steep the permits and city fees and taxes are going to be to install one of this in my backyard ??

56 years old fog was more abundant when I was a kid

Oh, Wow, I hadn't realized how important the F😗og is to our North Bay Climate and that the Fog is going away...Sad

So Monterey's fog actually does something more important than just keep the city annoyingly cold in the mornings.

Just wonder how much effect cutting down thousands of eucalyptus trees all across the Berkeley/Oakland hills had on fog/moisture collection and moisture levels all across the east bay?? And as a result the overall linked effect across the whole bay area. As someone who was on the hills nearly every day there was an extreme change from daily complete saturation where it looked and felt as if it had rained to being an arid dry powdery dead zone just waiting to erode and slide.

I notice this year's ago and with the fog the redwoods will go to😬😥

shows how much they know a fog is a low cloud

We have to do something because California gets the most sun light per day so it’s going to get really dry

The world is clearly getting warmer and the water around the Golden gate bridge is it perfect example of it

I have been in SF since 11-2015 its drastically gone down since then!

When the SF fog is rolling fast, it's truly magnificent. However, fog capturing devices are not like solar panels. Any fog that is captured on the west side of the Bay Area is literally less fog for the East Bay and less cooling for the hot inland areas.

SF is a great place minus the homeless and crime

Now we've got too much water too quickly without much prep.

They’ve been collecting fog in Peru for decades

I’m an SF native and I hate the fog! 🤬

The fog is packing its bags and moving to the northwest we are getting more of it recently. My Redwood tree is living it up here.

Drought has nothing to do with disappearance of fog.

You can't argue with the numbers.

No more Thule fog on the Altamont. It's been gone for about 15 years

I call fog, doom and gloom!

California & Baja Mex norte, Chile, and PORTUGAL have the same climates. Portugal has similar late summer fires, too.

The fog isn’t going anywhere in our lifetime.

I grow up in sf .since the 80 and people cmplain about the fog now,but when i was a teenager you walk a couple steps and you don't see your own house so for me is normal enjoy because in the future we dont know what fog mean.

Capturing fog means somewhere else gets less fog.

FYI.....the London fog was based on air pollution. It stopped once they cleaned the air. So it's a bad comparison.

Fog has been here forever

I call BS. I grew up in SF. We always had fog

Need to put them fog catchers on the golden gate.

Fog, not groundwater or rain IS the water supply for all species of California's Redwoods.

Fogetabout it! Now i miss foggy days.

theres actually much foggier and colder places than san francisco along the norcal coast, even pacifica and half moon bay are much foggier and there right by sanfran

FYI he's a great artist

Residents want to help. They need to move out of a city where everything needs to be trucked in to sustain their lifestyle.

*I absolutely "hate" Fog.* *I start to have a hissy-fit when my South San Jose* *sees AM (Sky Level) Fog during Summers.* *I need my daily warm Sunshine daily, or else.....* 🤪

Enough with the lies and gas lighting. Every climate prediction has been dead wrong for the last 70 years, give it up already.

blame all the damn pot smokers and the drug addicts in the streets!

The problem is when there's droughts these small hairy plants are going to die and create huge open areas to create heat islands and exponentially fight the fog

They should bottle the fog and sell it as Fog water... I'm sure someone would buy it 😂

Whoa crazy there is an artist in the city? I thought the tech colonizers outlawed creative expression unless it has to do with separating consumers from their greenbacks.

To be fair, tomatoes can be dry farmed with no water with proper furrow techniques...

I have no words🙄

LOVEE - Lil B

1951 was the year Barbara Eden won the Miss San Francisco beauty pageant. She was then named Barbata Huffman before her agent in Los Angeles changed her last name to Eden because she was as beautiful as the Garden of Eden.

This video needs more foghorn.

~ Fog Sucks ~ Without it it’s like 65* and Sunny. I think the mold has gotten to Some Peoples Brain....

OMG!! Who the heck wants to live in fog! These people just don’t know anything else! They will love the sunshine 😂

Carl is Robin Williams with a vengeance

Really...knock it off.

What the fog!? 😂

the only constant is change

Easy on the fog horns in the video. We get it. 3 times was enough.

God is in absolute and total control of the weather(.)

Is this a story or a petition to young fools from old ones?

12000 years ago where I sit in Ohio was covered with thousands of feet of Ice. We have only recently exited the last Ice Age. The next Ice Age (Glacial advancing) would occur in about 50,000 years. Why would it NOT be getting warmer?

Oh no, 100 years from now... stop with this silliness.

Of course the planet is getting slightly warmer since we are coming out of an ice age.

just for ref.. the fog goes all the way to llos angeles

But the redwoods love fog...

the key to climate change is change and it will always change back - always has.

Fog keeps the air feeling clean and fresh. and the best natural air conditioning known to man

Fog me! Only rich people think of catching fog.

You never quit do you?

The sky is falling the sky is falling 🥜

It's impossible to assign a constant value of growth to something which keeps expanding and contracting on a daily basis without a constant variable. If you said the value of X which moves in a up or down direction every day is going to be 1 degree higher in 1 years time, you're not making a prediction based on science, you're ignoring the scientific process which says it's not possible to measure something without a constant starting point. To say that X, which is a random number, will be permanently 1 degree higher you need a Y measurement to be a constant value of lets say 5 degrees, If the value of Y never moves then you can say X will be 1 degree higher if Y moves up to the value of 6. Y = 6 + X = ?. The variable X = ?(random) represents the weather and Y does not exist in real life. Claiming that the weather will be permanently higher by a certain amount of degrees on average is a impossible claim to make. It's like saying that a roulette wheel will always roll red 5 times as a constant measurement. Their is no rule of nature that says the weather will always be 30 degrees and that, that 30 degrees never moves. Therefore no Y variable or constant measurement can be assigned. If god can't do it then you can't either.

Blame the Chinese for opening dozens of coal power plants

Ill vote for no fog

I’ll take things that aren’t true for 500 Alex.

I've been here my whole life....literally nothing has changed with our weather or fog....this video is extremely weird.

THIS IS SO DAMNED TRAGIC I CAN'T STAND IT!!! HERB CAEN IS ROLLING OVER IN HIS GRAVE.

Lol

The fog is coming