Sentences with phrase «extreme coastal sea levels»

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But research has shown Guam is among the top five most vulnerable US military installations worldwide due to coastal erosion, extreme weather and rising sea levels linked to climate change.

«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

Improving projections for how much ocean levels may change in the future and what that means for coastal communities has vexed researchers studying sea level rise for years, but a new international study that incorporates extreme events may have just given researchers and coastal planners what they need.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

«We know that sea levels are rising and that coastal communities are becoming more vulnerable to extreme weather - and climate - related events.

More than 150 million people worldwide are at risk from rising sea levels and extreme storms that cause coastal flooding.

The latest assessment also did not account for the effects of extreme weather except for coastal flooding due to sea - level rise and storm surge.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

The thing about climate change: it doesn't hit home, until it (literally) hits home — extreme storms, droughts, flash floods and accelerating sea level rise triggering more frequent coastal flooding.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

-- It is very likely that average sea level rise will contribute to upward trends in extreme sea levels in extreme coastal high water levels.

The raise of the level of the sea, for example, could create situations of extreme gravity when taking into account that a quarter of the world population lives by the sea or very close to it, and that most megacities are located in coastal areas.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

However, in order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, not only robust SLR projections are required but also a profound knowledge of the drivers and occurrence of present - day and future extreme sea levels (ESL), as ESL drive the impacts (Bindoff et al 2007).

Leading scientists also warn that this process is endangering the entire planet: Arctic warming and melting cause more extreme weather in the mid-latitudes and sea level rise that will have catastrophic consequences for low - lying coastal communities around the world.

The Asian region also faces a range of climate impacts, including extreme heat, imperiled drinking water resources, and accelerated sea - level rise, which can lead to widespread population displacement, food insecurity, and costly damage to coastal cities and towns.

Local sea level rise and extreme events can have significant impacts on coastal zones.

Limits must be strict enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming that are already being felt in extreme weather events, droughts, floods, melting glaciers and polar ice caps and rising sea levels that threaten to swamp coastal communities and small island states.

«We conclude that, if projections for an increasing frequency of extreme El Niño and La Niña events over the twenty - first century are confirmed, then populated regions on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean basin could be alternately exposed to extreme coastal erosion and flooding, independent of sea - level rise,» the authors write.

People are already experiencing the impacts of climate change through slow onset changes, for example sea level rise and greater variability in the seasonality of rainfall, and through extreme weather events, particularly extremes of heat, rainfall and coastal storm surges.

It advocates a shift from fossil fuels to sustainable energy and draws attention to the vulnerability of coastal communities and infrastructure to extreme weather and sea level rise.

It is likely that there has been an anthropogenic influence on increasing extreme coastal high water due to an increase in mean sea level.»

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

Both also depend on aging infrastructure that has already been stressed by climate hazards including heat waves, as well as coastal and riverine flooding due to a combination of sea level rise, storm surge, and extreme precipitation events.

Sea level rise will increase the frequency and extent of extreme flooding associated with coastal storms, such as hurricanes.

Climate models project increasing days of extreme rainfall in the Northwest, Midwest, and parts of the Northeast, including some populated coastal areas that are already challenged by inundation and sea level rise.

«The sea - level rise taking place right now is quickly making extreme coastal floods more common, increasing risk for millions of people where they live and work,» Ben Strauss, co-author of both studies and researcher at Climate Central, said in a statement.

For example, extreme transient sea - level rise due to tropical or extratropical storm surge can cause abrupt increases of flood risk (Nicholls et al., 2007), putting many coastal regions at risk for loss of human life before gradual sea - level rise inundates the region.

And for coastal cities, restoring wetlands and / or offshore areas can remove carbon from the air all while protecting the city (from extreme weather events and sea level rise) and providing outdoor recreation areas.

From heartland communities enduring more extreme weather to coastal communities facing the threat of rising sea levels, the residents of America's cities are on the front line of the fight against climate change.

The Politico investigation found that in an application to build a coastal wall around a golf resort in Ireland, Trump's company Trump International Golf Links Ireland explicitly cited the risk of sea - level rise and extreme weather due to climate change.

«Sea level rise from global warming has already doubled the risk of extreme coastal floods across the lower 48 states,» author Ben Strauss said today on a conference call.

African coastal areas are also at risk from extreme weather and rising sea levels.

The region will be affected by rising temperatures, water security, sea - level rises, storm surges, extreme weather events, inland and coastal flooding, and food security issues.

Reinstate federal flood - protection standards that require all federally funded infrastructure projects to meet a higher margin of safety for future sea - level rise and flooding from coastal storms and extreme weather events.

Fishing, a major source of food for the region, will also be affected by rising sea levels, making coastal land unusable, causing fish species to migrate, and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events disrupting agriculture.