Climate change, climate patterns, and rising sea levels cause growing threat to the bluffs in Isla Vista | News Channel 3-12

Global sea levels rising twice as fast as they did last century, according to major scientific report

Every measure of climate change is going in the wrong direction, and some of them faster than ever before, a vast new paper has warned. Emissions should be falling, but are still rising.

Climate change, climate patterns, and rising sea levels cause growing threat to the bluffs in Isla Vista | News Channel 3-12

ISLA VISTA, Calif. — The bluffs in Isla Vista are a prime example of how erosion is speeding up along California's coastline. There is a growing threat to coastal homes because of rising sea levels and climate change. Charles Lester, the Director of UC Santa Barbara's Coastal Policy Center, posed an important question that experts are studying year after year, "How do we deal with an eroding shoreline that's going to be eroding even faster?" His…