Orange County Line
How OC Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Global Warming
Gustavo Arellano on how Orange County coastal cities are responding to rising sea levels
Last week, the Huntington Beach City Council approved funding for a report that will study how the city can combat the inevitable: rising sea levels. This comes just weeks after the Newport Beach City Council did the same. In a famously conservative county, where global warming is still largely dismissed as liberal propaganda by politicians, the move by the majority-Republican city councils seems like a wake-up call to the inevitable. Can these councils save their cities from the sea while remaining good conservatives?