The Newspaper of the San Francisco Bay Chapter
November - December 2006
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"Submerging" Pier 39 - more than an art project
On the last day of summer, men and women wielding rolls of blue tape wrapped an aquarium and adjacent buildings on San Francisco's Pier 39 as part of a collaborative art project designed to demonstrate the potential consequences of rising sea levels from global warming.
"Future Sea Level," a joint project of the San Francisco Environment Department, the Sierra Club, and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, is the first time the effects of climate change have been projected onto a public streetscape.
The ribbon of tape flutters seven meters above sea level, high enough that pedestrians around the aquarium have to jump up to touch it, and representing the waterline if half the Greenland ice sheet and a portion of the Antarctic ice sheet were to melt.
© 2006 San Francisco Sierra Club Yodeler