Global Warming shapes the South Coast's future.. and past

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Story Published: Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM PDT

By Erica Rush, KCBY News

NORTH BEND, Ore. -We often hear about the effects global warming is going to have on the world but already major changes have been taking place over the past 10,000 years. And giving us a local look at the issues is the League of Women Voters of Coos County.

The league invited local researcher, Don Ivy to come speak to the community early Saturday morning and discuss the local history of climate change, including the rise in sea level and catastrophic events that have affected the South Coast.

"In the past, the league has studied earthquake preparedness and tsunamis and it just seemed very fitting that we should get more informed about climate change," said co-president, Francis Smith.

Ivy, who is the Cultural Resources Program Coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe, has also been working with federal and state agencies this past decade, investigating archaeological sites and cultural places here on the South Coast.

According to Ivy, research suggests global warming was been shaping our shorelines but also is the cause for the multitude of fresh water lakes we have now.

"All the little lakes at Horsefall, all those place going from the bridge North of Hauser, as you drive that you, you are driving essentially in what is drowned estuary environment that use to be intertidal all the way to Lakeside."

Ivy adds that the changes to our coast line are in part to global warming but also the big advancements and perpetual events, such as earthquakes.

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