If the Pacific Ocean rises due to global climate change, Ediz Hook still would stay dry – on a calm day.
But during storms, the Coast Guard’s Group/Air Station Port Angeles might be battered by waves like never before, said Don Cramer, a member of the Climate Crisis Citizens Coalition, on Saturday.
To illustrate that possible local consequence of climate change, Cramer made sure Ediz Hook was in the background of a group photo taken on City Pier.
Those in the photo attended the Port Angeles version of “Step It Up,” a nationwide day of action to address global climate change, organized locally by Cramer.
About 200 people attended, and posed for the snapshot, which will be sent to members of Congress to urge that mandate greenhouse gas emissions be cut 80 percent by 2050.
Similar photos at an estimated 1,400 rallies nationwide are expected to be sent to Congress with the same message.
About 200 people attended such a rally in Port Townsend Saturday.
The Port Angeles rally started at 1 p.m. at the Vern Burton Center on Fourth Street next to City Hall.
Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, who has a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio, told the crowd that the emission-cutting goal was a good start.
“That’s a good first step, but that still means we’re contributing” emissions, Schromen-Wawrin said.
Solving global climate change means reducing greenhouse gasses to the levels they were 200 years ago within the next 200 years, he said.
