Water, water everywhere

Someday, having that perfect Bayside view may not be all it is cracked up to be.
Scientists are predicting the Bay's waters could rise by 3 to 4 feet in 100 years, flooding up to 4 miles of low-lying Baylands in a climate-change scenario not unlike the images of sinking cities in Al Gore's bracing documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
What no one knows, however, is when. Predicting the future of climate change is notoriously difficult, especially when it comes to variables such as greenhouse gas emissions, melting ice sheets, rising tides, shifting winds and other atmospheric conditions.
Worldwide, modest global warming has caused the sea level to rise 6 to 8 inches in the past century, at a stable 2 mm per year. But by 2100, that number could increase by an additional 3 feet, according to a March 2006 report from the California Climate Change Center.

from the Oakland Tribune