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Vol. 100, Issue 38 • September 20, 2012
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Lights! Camera! La Jolla! San Diego Film Festival comes to the Village Three days of exceptional films will screen at MCASD’s Sherwood Auditorium Sept. 2730 with a rare guest appearance by Gus Van Sant (left), director of ‘Milk’ and ‘Good Will Hunting.’ COURTESY
Merchants close Haute Nights on a high note, A4
Residents ask SIO to halt construction of high-rise lab, A7
Carly Gomez, a co-captain of La Jolla High School’s Varsity Cheer Squad, takes a glorious leap during the halftime performance at last Friday’s ‘Blast Off’ home game. Ed Piper
BY PAT SHERMAN With fresh energy and leadership at the helm — and a bevvy of A-list events and 50 percent more screenings — San Diego Film Festival (SDFF) organizers are upping the ante for 2012 and beyond. A primary component of SDFF’s growth strategy is the addition of La Jolla as a venue for several of its top screenings, including “Quartet,” actor Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, and an opening night appearance by legendary filmmaker Gus Van Sant (“Milk,” “My Own Private Idaho”), who will be honored with a career retrospective and a screening of See Film Festival, A8
Scientists converge in La Jolla to discuss rising sea levels Sherri Lightner rallies officials to fight Cove stench, A14
ArtPower! to present edgy, eclectic entertaiment, B1
Editor’s note: This report is the first in a two-part series chronicling an international workshop on sea-level rise, held at UC San Diego last week. Leading climate scientists and public-policy experts shared research findings and formulated strategies to combat and adapt to projected short- and longterm rises in sea level. Part 2, to be published in the Sept. 27 issue, examines the measures coastal cities around the world are already adopting.
By Lynne Friedmann Sea level is on the rise and demands the attention of policymakers and urban planners to identify and set
in motion specific, achievable actions over the next several years to mitigate or adapt to a rise in sea level over the next 300 years of between 2.4 and 5 meters (8 and 16 feet), based on current understanding and circumstances. This was the message of the International Workshop on Coastal Cities, Climate Change, and Sea-Level Rise, held Sept. 5-7, on the UC San Diego campus where representatives from 18 leading research institutes — members of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and a number of non-government organizations — explored ways of
UC San Diego hosted experts from around the world for the International Workshop on Coastal Cities, Climate Change, and Sea-Level Rise. Lynne Friedmann improving cooperation among academics, government officials, and policymakers to protect human lives and economic resources. It is not often that an issue
brings together climate scientists, economists, architects, urban planners, political scientists, and international relations experts. But, that’s exactly
who was in the room, motivated to find solutions to the potentially catastrophic effects of sea-level rise on 200 million people and trillions of dollars of coastal assets ($100 billion alone in California). The first day of the meeting provided clear and coherent presentations of the latest research outcomes on climate change at different locations around the world. “The conclusion is that climate change and local sea-level rise is highly variable,” said Jim Falk, Honorary Professorial Fellow in the University of Melbourne
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