Gee, did SF have anything to do with putting more people at risk from rising sea levels?

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LEFT PHOTO: The San Francisco shoreline from 1895 as shown in this map at the Oakland Museum. The shaded areas on the east side of the City of San Francisco show areas of artificial fill. RIGHT MAP: This is a screenshot from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sea Level Rise Viewer tool showing t San Francisco Bay with 10 feet of sea level rise in the shaded area. Notice the similarities.

SF sea maps — LEFT PHOTO: The San Francisco shoreline from 1895 as shown in this map at the Oakland Museum. The shaded areas on the east side of the City of San Francisco show areas of artificial fill. RIGHT MAP: This is a screenshot from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sea Level Rise Viewer tool showing t San Francisco Bay with 10 feet of sea level rise in the shaded area. Notice the similarities.

San Francisco, by any stretch of the imagination, is not a hotbed of “climate change deniers.” It’s been that way for more than a decade and counting. Yet the powers that be in San Francisco in recent years embraced a plan to take the population of Treasure Island from a population of 2,000 to 19,000, build up to 500 hotel rooms, and add tons of commercial buildings to create a $5 billion neighborhood. Just one small detail.

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