Study says county to get hotter, sea to rise 18 inches by 2050

The sea level along the San Diego County coast may be a foot and a half higher, temperatures may be 4.5 degrees hotter and the region may have 18 percent less water than it needs in 2050, all a result of climate change, according to a report released Monday by the San Diego Foundation.

The rising ocean would put popular beaches and seaside communities at risk, even as the air is choked with increasingly thick smog fueled by three times as many heat waves as now, the report warned.

And the county that boasts more endangered species than any other in the nation could wake up to a backcountry where many native plants and wildlife have been pushed into extinction.

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