California Ordered To Prepare For Sea-Level Rise

Governor Schwarzenegger has ordered ordered preparations for rising sea levels from global warming, according to a report in Reuters News Service.  Recorded sea levels rose 7 inches (18 cm) during the 20th century in San Francisco, Schwarzenegger said in the executive order for study of how much more the sea could rise, what other consequences of global warming were coming and how the state should react.  California is considered the environmental vanguard of government in the United States, with its own standards for car pollution and a law to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the main gas contributing to global warming, the report noted.  “The longer that California delays planning and adapting to sea level rise the more expensive and difficult adaptation will be,Schwarzenegger said, ordering a report by the end of 2010.