Climate change could result in a beachless Manhattan Beach
What Manhattan Beach will look like during a 100-year winter storm, which now happens with greater frequency, with three feet of sea-level rise. Current trends show a six feet sea level increase by 2100. Model projection from the USGS Coastal Storm Modeling System First of two parts A week after delivering a buoyant State of the City address and a day before the end of her mayorship, Mayor Nancy Hersman Monday night led a town hall meeting on climate change that included an ominous look at the future of Manhattan Beach’s defining trait, its beach, and suggestions from a panel of experts about how to address an unfolding environmental catastrophe. Hersman, whose tenure as mayor has been characterized by a thoughtful geniality and a longer look at the city’s history, confessed that prior to being elected to city council she’d given little thought to climate change. That has changed. She now drives an electric car and has solar panels on her house. The facts of climate change and the devastation its effects will wreak globally and locally, the mayor said, are startlingly clear. “We can’t ignore climate change any longer,” she said. “That is the purpose of this town hall.” Hersman…
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