European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 17, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5group issues global warming stud severe storms inundated coastlines top list by the los Angeles times san Francisco a rising seas caused by warmth trapped in polluted air could inundate $48 billion Worth of property along san Francisco Bay Over the next centu7 unless preventive action is taken a research organization estimates in a report released monday the Impact of global warming the so called greenhouse effect projected by the non profit Berkeley Calif based Pacific Institute is a worst Case scenario based on a 40-Inch Rise in sea level from melting land inc and expansion of the oceans themselves As they warm recent research predicting a Rise of Only about 12 inches would reduce but not eliminate the impacts predicted by the report which suggests All of California would have to undertake a massive construction Job to preserve its current coastline. A the Cost of protecting against a sea Rise of half a meter 20 inches Isnit that much different from protecting against a full meter a said Peter h. Gleick author of the report with Edwin p. Maurer. A besides a prediction of a 30-centimeter 12 inches Rise by 2050 does no to mean the sea would Stop rising there. That kind of Rise is consistent with a full meter by the end of the 21 St  even at much lower increases of 6 inches or less Gleick and Maurer project More frequent severe storms that would lash Shoreline property if not inundate it a storm that today would be considered the worst in a Century would happen once a decade if sea level rises just half a foot the researchers said. A a sea level Rise will irrevocably change the nature of san Francisco Bay. Its a no win situation a Gleick said. A even if we were to build All of the levees and seawalls needed to protect existing development we would lose vast stretches of  predictions of massive disruption to coastal zones have usually accompanied projections by most scientists of How the greenhouse effect will nudge average temperatures up by anywhere from 4 degrees to 9 degrees Over the next 100 years. Scientists at the National oceanic and atmospheric administration and other government and private research agencies think that Small but critical warming May have some benefits a increased food production quicker Forest growth and increased fresh water supplies. But it will come at a massive Cost of flooding along coastlines where half of the world s population lives. In its study the Pacific Institute applied those expectations to a specific known Region a san Francisco Bay which As americans second largest Estuary has a Large part of its population living near the water and has particular economic and ecological importance to California. The most obvious effect is a great expansion of land area subject to floods under highest tide. San Francisco International Airport would be in danger As would highly developed areas of nearby san Mateo county including Nasa Ames research Center and Moffett Field naval air station. Across the Bay Oakland International Airport probably would be swamped As would Large parts of Oakland itself. Treasure Island in the Middle of the Bay an artificial Island housing a Navy base would vanish. So too would several other military installations including the Alameda naval air station Oakland army terminal and . Coast guard reservation. Farther North the scars Point raceway and the abandoned Hamilton fab would be affected. Parts of the civics of Napa Vallejo and Fairfield could be washed out. People who avoid flooding from the High tides would not be Able to avoid the deterioration of the Region s ground water basins due to sea Waier intrusion. Nor would they be Likely to escape sharing in the Cost of erecting seawalls and levees to shield Low lying areas from the rising Ocean. Gleick and Maurer estimate the Cost of building new seawalls and levees or modifying existing ones at $942 million. Maintaining those defences they add. Could run As High As $100 million a year. To minimize the Impact of rising seas the researchers suggest an immediate prohibition of development along the coast and adjacent to marshes tidelands and other wetland areas. Flood insurance programs should be modified or phased out in areas Likely to be affected by future flooding they add. Even with such adjustments the dislocation caused by significant sea level change will Over time be substantial. Gleick and Maurer concluded. A some of the impacts of a sea level Rise May never be quantifiable a they said. A these include. Social costs of migration away from affected areas the psychological pressures of living behind coastal Protection in threatened areas and the value of lost or altered  goes on trial in songs Faith Healing death Boston apr two Christian science Church members will come to trial this week on charges that they killed their 2v2-Ycar-old son by denying him medical care and choosing to rely on prayer alone to heal his fatal illness. The manslaughter trial of David and Ginger Twitchell is scheduled to open in Suffolk District court tuesday almost four years to the Day after the death of their son Robyn. The prosecution will argue that the couple contributed to their child a death by refusing to seek medical attention when the boy became ill from what was later diagnosed As a Bowel obstruction. The twitch Eils attorney Rikki Kjile Man said she will argue that her clients far from acting recklessly sought the Only real cure available to them under their deeply held religious beliefs. John Kiernan a special assistant District attorney denied that the Case is an attack on Christian science or a repudiation of spiritual Healing. He said it has nothing to do with religion. A the whole idea is to bring to the Troni the Issue of a what is the required conduct of parents a a he said. A we Are advocates of children. We Are not persecutors of religious beliefs a when Robyn apparently came Down ii four years ago the twit a nulls followed Church teaching and David and Ginger Twitchell at their 1988 arraignment on manslaughter charges. Called a Christian scientist practitioner and nurse to treat him. Said Church spokesman Nathan Talbot. After four Days in which the illness Quot ebbed and flowed Quot Klicman said the boy appeared to get belter. A Day before he died the lawyer said he Wem outside to play. But Kiernan argues that while an adult May choose to forego conventional medical treatment a child is in no position to make such a decision. A the medical profession is quite Clear that this condition is relatively easy to diagnose and the prescribed treatment has a very very High Success rate a he said. The Church founded in 1879. Believes that physical disease like sin can be healed by spiritual Means alone. There arc about 2,600 Christian science churches in 68 countries and the Church owns weekly and monthly publications and a television news show. Klieman contends that prejudice against the Christian science Church lies at the heart of the Case. A this District attorney wants to put the Christian scientists out of  she said. Klieman said her clients a chose a system of health care which they believed was excellent Quot adding that Christian science practitioners care is covered by Blue Cross and medicare and is tax deductible. Kilauea lava Burns Home redoubt sends Ash into air Sands of time by the associated press lava from Hawaii a Kilauea Volcano acs troyed another Home sunday and threatened 60 More and redoubt Volcano in Alaska blasted Ash 7 Miles into the atmosphere but caused Little disruption m Normal activity a n�in8 frown Kilauea destroyed in Home in Kaapana shortly before was the 80th Home burned in a began its latest series of eruptions seven years ago. Another lava flow is nearing 60 Homes lion a Pana subdivision. An evacuate notice was posted for residents said Hawaii Island civil defense spokesman Lanny Nakano. The notice warned residents that their Homes May be destroyed within 24 hours. By midday sunday a lava flow from the North was about 150 Yards from the next Home in the subdivision Nakano said. Another flow from the West was running alongside the one that destroyed two Homes in the subdivision last week. In Alaska redoubts latest blast sent Ash More than 7 Miles into the sky but winds carried it away from Anchorage Alaska Volcano Observatory officials said. Redoubt is 115 Miles Southwest of  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 17, 1950 a the air Force officially called off its search for a missing Navy plane believed to have been shot Down by soviet fighters Over Latvia last week.30 years ago today. April 17, i960 a cuban Premier Fidel Castro a agents rounded up hundreds of suspects in an attempt to keep a Small revolt from escalating.20 years ago today. April 17, 1970 a an Avalanche of Snow dirt and rocks plunged from a Mountainside onto a children a Sanitorium in Saint Gervais France killing 72 people,10 years ago today. 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