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Sea Level Awareness Project (SLAP) HAPPENED June 29th [from slapventura.com]

SLAP is a community awareness project designed to wake up Ventura to the danger of sea level rise, because of global warming.

Scientists project that within 100 years, sea level could rise 240 feet worldwide, because of Arctic and Antarctic ice melt, caused by global warming. That would put Ventura completely underwater. Just if Greenland melts, which climate change experts say could easily happen within one century, Ventura will look like the picture, above.

A group of middle school students from Ventura Charter School of Arts and Global Education and Open Classroom are working on a project designed to make the concept of sea level rise easier to visualize. They will install an art/environmental activist/educational project along the Promenade down at the beach that will raise awareness of this issue in Ventura. On June 29, they will install the first ten SLAP poles, showing where the sea level will be if nothing is done to curb the current rate of global warming.

Led by 8th grader, Alec Loorz, founder of Kids-vs-Global-Warming, the project will warn of the dangers we face in Ventura due to future sea level rise. The poles will have a line at the top showing that you would be underwater where you are standing.

It also features icons showing some important things we would lose with a 23 foot sea level rise. Things like our waste treatment center, the power generating station, and of course the beaches and entire neighborhoods. It’s an issue that involves us as a whole city. So, we need to work together to change the way we use coal and oil.

We can make a difference. Kids will be the ones who will have to deal with the worst effects of climate change. So, the youth have to be the ones leading the way to make changes NOW because we plan to STOP global warming within our lifetimes.

So now, lets get ready to SLAP Ventura!