![]() "We had a hunch that the fog was changing, but we didn't really know how," said Todd Dawson, a plant ecology professor at U.C. But with his paintings of changing fog at the Golden Gate, Marcelo might actually be documenting yet another casualty of climate change. But this is happening here in the United States as well."Īs he put the last brushstrokes on his second painting of the day, the Golden Gate Bridge wrapped in cool gray fog seemed a world away from the scenes of rubble and destruction he sometimes paints. "You know, we think of climate refugees in places like Africa. "Many of these places are totally uninhabitable now," he said. John Paul Marcelo painted this burned-out truck as part of a series of documentary paintings chronicling the destruction wrought by the Wine Country wildfires in 2017. "I wasn't thinking I was going to paint the bridge today, but I did see this, so I thought that was kind of remarkable to paint, that moment." "There was this line right here," he said. On a chilly spring morning at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, a thin line of pure white fog stretched its way under the bridge deck and out toward Alcatraz.Īs the waves crashed up onto the pavement at high tide, a man in a paint-spattered hoodie and a warm hat delicately traced the path of the fog with a brush, making a tiny oil painting of the fleeting image on a wooden board. Fog in the Bay Area contains a lot of water, and research is now underway to determine how that water could best be used to ease the worsening droughts in coastal California.The fog gives San Francisco its gray summers and chilly evenings, but also brings in the cool ocean air that keeps temperatures mild all over the Bay Area.Scientists studying San Francisco's iconic fog noted a steady decline in the number of foggy days over a 60-year period starting in 1951. ![]()
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