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Jan 5 10:07 am
  • climate change

City’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan to be presented to City Council Tuesday

Tim Grobaty

The CAAP report tackles most of the things that can go wrong in Long Beach from climate change, and recommends steps to take to lessen those problems, steps that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars if they were all to be put into effect immediately.

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Sep 23 11:13 am
  • climate change

California moves to end sales of new gas-powered cars

The Associated Press

The proposed rule would not ban people from owning gas-powered cars or selling them on the used car market. But it would end the sales of all new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in the state of nearly 40 million people.

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Apr 21 11:05 pm
  • climate change

Close to home: Climate change and the future of Long Beach

David Sommers, Publisher

The coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate headlines, but April 22, 2020 is also newsworthy as the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. 

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Sep 27 2019 3:34 pm
  • climate change

IN PICTURES: Hundreds rally at Bixby Park as part of national protest for climate action

Staff Reports

Protesters hoping to draw attention to climate change during the United Nations Climate Action summit this week gathered at Bixby Park in Long Beach on Friday holding signs and waving at passing motorists as part of a “global strike.”

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Sep 26 2019 5:53 pm
  • climate change

Global Climate Crisis Rally to hit Long Beach City Hall, Bixby Park on Friday

Valerie Osier

The march will start at City Hall at noon and the rally will start at the Bixby Park at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.

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Aug 13 2019 3:07 pm
  • climate change

New report shows temperatures have risen faster in Long Beach, L.A. than other parts of the world

Staff Reports

Temperatures in the Long Beach region have climbed as much as 2.5 degrees Celsius, which are considered to be early warning signs of a dramatic climate shift, according to the Washington Post report.

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Jun 19 2019 12:00 am
  • climate change

Study finds Long Beach would have to spend $246 million in the next 20 years to hold back rising sea levels

Kelly Puente

A report released Wednesday by Center for Climate Integrity is billed as the first such study to give a dollar amount to the cost of building seawalls to protect communities against rising sea levels due to climate change. 

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Jun 1 2019 5:00 am
  • climate change

Draft climate change plan suggests electrified air travel, vegetation on roofs and stronger seawalls

Melissa Evans

Long Beach officials devised a timeline through 2100 to tackle issues related to a warming planet, including worsening air quality, hotter temperatures and rising sea levels.

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Apr 22 2019 7:24 am
  • climate change

The impact of climate change on Long Beach port will be profound

Jason Ruiz

Three of 10 shipping piers at the Port of Long Beach could be inundated with water—one of which houses a Southern California Edison substation—even in the mildest sea-level rise projections, according to an assessment risk compiled by the port.

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Apr 22 2019 7:24 am
  • climate change

‘Water always wins’: The most expensive parts of Long Beach are most vulnerable to rising seas

Tim Grobaty

In the 90803 ZIP code—which includes Naples, Belmont Shore and the Peninsula—the median home costs nearly $900,000. But large swaths of the area will soon be underwater, with predictions that a rapidly warming ocean will rise 6 to 22 inches by 2050 and as much 6 feet by 2100.

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