Jerry Brown Warns LAX Will Have to be Moved Due to Global Warming; Update: Aide Corrects

Jerry Brown Warns LAX Will Have to be Moved Due to Global Warming; Update: Aide Corrects: California Governor Jerry Brown, presenting his revised state budget to reporters in Los Angeles on Tuesday, warned that California my be underwater in the future--not because of his budget, but because glaciers in Antarctica will collapse and sea levels will rise four feet over the next 200 years.

Brown cautioned, "If that happens, the Los Angeles airport's going to be underwater. So is the San Francisco airport." As for the San Onofre nuclear power plant: "You’re going to have to move all that … That’s billions, if not tens of billions. Luckily, we can take a few years."





Update: An aide to the governor has corrected his claim that LAX will have to be moved, the Los Angeles Times reports:

“The governor misspoke about LAX,” said Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the Brown administration.


Environmental officials for Los Angeles World Airports, the operator
of LAX, said the airport has an elevation of more than 120 feet. “A
4-foot rise in sea level,” they said, “should have minimal impact on
airport operations.”

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