That is some serious fear mongering.
Via LA Times:
California will face billions of dollars in spending to cope with the consequences of rising sea levels if low-lying communities along the coast are ultimately submerged, as scientists predict, Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday.
Brown’s remarks came a day after the release of two studies finding that a slow-motion and irreversible collapse of a massive cluster of glaciers in Antarctica has begun and could cause sea levels to rise worldwide by four feet within 200 years.
“If that happens, the Los Angeles airport’s going to be underwater,” Brown told reporters at a presentation of his revised state budget proposal in Los Angeles. “So is the San Francisco airport.”
Also underwater, he added, would be the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
“You’re going to have to move all that,” Brown said. “That’s billions, if not tens of billions. Luckily, we can take a few years.” He joked: “Maybe my next year’s budget will handle that.”