
The first day of winter found me standing in the middle of the Yachats River estuary on the Oregon coast. (Good thing the tide was out.) And as usual when I’m in that place, I thought about the slow and imperceptible rise in the level of the sea.
You were wondering how much the Pacific Ocean has risen since the last time I checked, right? I mean, there’s something in the news almost every day on climate change. And according to everything we hear, the effects of global warming including rising sea levels are affecting us all and happening now.
So, what about that rising ocean level?
Now and then, we have to get away from our Albany and mid-valley travails — city and trash service fees, Covid lockdowns, and the price of gas going up every day — and check on something that is more remote. The alleged rise, for instance, in the level of our ocean that we hear so […]
Tags: Oregon coast, sea level rise