California Farms, Vineyards in Peril from Warming,
US Energy Secretary Warns
by: Jim Tankersley, The Los Angeles Times

“We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more
agriculture in California,” Steven Chu says. He sees
education as a means to combat threat.

Washington – California’s farms and vineyards could vanish
by the end of the century, and its major cities could be
in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance
of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said
Tuesday.

In his first interview since taking office last month, the
Nobel-prize-winning physicist offered some of the starkest
comments yet on how seriously President Obama’s cabinet
views the threat of climate change, along with a detailed
assessment of the administration’s plans to combat it.

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Chu warned of water shortages plaguing the West and Upper
Midwest and particularly dire consequences for California,
his home state, the nation’s leading agricultural producer.

In a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack
could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage
system for water vital to agriculture.

“I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut
what could happen,” he said. “We’re looking at a scenario
where there’s no more agriculture in California.” And, he
added, “I don’t actually see how they can keep their
cities going” either.

A pair of recent studies raise similar warnings. One,
published in January in the journal Science, raised the
specter of worldwide crop shortages as temperatures rise.
Another, penned by UC Berkeley researchers last year,
estimated California has about $2.5 trillion in real
estate assets – including agriculture – endangered by
warming.

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Chu is not a climate scientist. He won his Nobel for work
trapping atoms with laser light. He taught at Stanford
University and directed the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, where he reoriented researchers to pursue
“clean energy” technologies to help reduce the use of
greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels in the U.S., before
Obama tapped him to head the Energy Department.

He stressed the threat of climate change in his Senate
confirmation hearings and in a video clip posted on
Obama’s transition website, but not as bluntly, nor in
as dire terms, as he did Tuesday.

In the course of a half-hour interview, Chu made clear
that he sees public education as a key part of the
administration’s strategy to fight global warming – along
with billions of dollars for alternative energy research
and infrastructure, a national standard for electricity
from renewable sources and cap-and-trade legislation to
limit greenhouse gas emissions.

He said the threat of warming is keeping policymakers
focused on alternatives to fossil fuel, even though
gasoline prices have fallen over the last six months
from historic highs. But he said public awareness needs
to catch up. He compared the situation to a family buying
an old house and being told by an inspector that it must
pay a hefty sum to rewire it or risk an electrical fire
that could burn everything down.

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“I’m hoping that the American people will wake up,” Chu
said, and pay the cost of rewiring.

Environmentalists welcomed the comments as a sharp break
from the Bush administration, which often minimized
research about global warming.

“To say the least, it’s a breath of fresh air,” said
Bernadette Del Chiaro, who directs the clean air and global
warming program for Environment California. “We’ve been
worried about the impacts of global warming for years,
even decades. He’s absolutely right – California stands
to lose so much in our way of life.”

Global warming skeptics were not swayed. “I am hopeful
Secretary Chu will take note of the real-world data, new
studies and the growing chorus of international scientists
that question his climate claims,” Sen. James Inhofe
(R-Okla.), the top Republican on the Environment and
Public Works Committee, said in a statement. “Computer
model predictions of the year 2100 are simply not
evidence of a looming climate catastrophe.”

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