Sentences with phrase «hundred seas rising»

A Hundred Seas Rising was commissioned by Aspex, University of Portsmouth CCi SPACE and Quay Arts in response to London 2012.

Suki Chan's One Hundred Seas Rising opened at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.

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In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

Another 2 to 7 feet of sea level rise is forecast this century, jeoparizing the homes and neighborhoods of the 5 million Americans who live less than 4 feet above high tide, as well as those of the hundreds of millions living along coastlines in other countries.

«It's definitely a major new area of study because we think it's so key to this question of how much sea level rise we're going to get in the next hundred years, or 500 years.»

For instance, rising sea levels «meant hundreds of millions of dollars were at risk in terms of damage to our coastline,» explains James Milkey, assistant attorney general for Massachusetts.

Within a few hundred years sea levels in some places had risen by as much as 10 meters — more than if the ice sheet that still covers Greenland were to melt today.

The melting of the polar ice cap would have a drastic effect: Sea level would rise by several meters around the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people who live close to coasts.

The sea is set to rise a metre or more by the end of this century, swamping much vital intrastructure and displacing hundreds of millions of people (New Scientist, 1 July 2009, p 28).

A leaked draft of a second report by the panel, due in March 2014, suggests climate change will cause heatwaves, droughts, disrupt crop growth, aggravate poverty and expose hundreds of millions of people to coastal floods as seas rise.

New research suggests herders north of the Black Sea were early speakers of Proto - Indo - European, the ancient tongue that gave rise to hundreds of languages, including English

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

«I would be much more concerned about the hundreds of millions of people who will be displaced by rising sea levels.»

Because there is so much water contained within the ice, as the ice melts, researchers estimate it could cause an alarming sea level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people along global coastlines.

A hundred different amounts have been predicted for sea - level rise by the year 2100, and Orrin stresses that his is a «working number,» not a prediction.

Given that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has a total sea level equivalent of 3.3 m1, with 1.5 m from Pine Island Glacier alone4, marine ice sheet collapse could be a significant challenge for future generations, with major changes in rates of sea level rise being possible within just the next couple of hundred years.

That order of sea level rise would result in the loss of hundreds of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds of millions of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely cause major international conflicts.

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May 21, 2018 • Sea - level rise is so acute in South Florida that local governments are eyeing hundreds of millions in spending to mitigate floodwaters.

But as the ocean gets warmer, some models predict the glacier could make the global sea level rise by two or three feet over the next hundred years.

The cut itself is about 9m deep and the occasionally strong tidal currents of Ambergris Caye provide a constant stream of food for the waiting filter feeders like the gorgonian sea fans and sponges that adorn the walls of the reef, which rises to the surface on either side sheltering turtles, crabs, morays and hundreds of small reef fish.

But few American painters have followed in the footsteps of Raphaelle Peale, who in the early decades of the nineteenth century produced some hundred exquisite pictures of fruit, cakes and wine (as well as a trompe - l'oeil, Venus Rising from the Sea — A Deception

If West Antarctica were to deliver something similar to MWP1B this century, how much warning would we have before sea levels rose at a couple inches a year for a hundred years?

There have certainly been incorrect assertions and headlines implying that 20 ft of sea level by 2100 was expected, but they are mostly based on a confusion of a transient rise with the eventual sea level rise which might take hundreds to thousands of years.

At the height of the last ice age, sea levels were about 120 metres below present day levels, and the average rise of sea level during the return to our present climate was about 1 metre per one hundred years.

Oh, and if climate change continues unchecked, sea levels will rise enough to devour Venice and New Orleans, not to mention Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, and many hundreds of other cities that are located on coastlines at low elevations.

Last time, the chapter on that continent began with a declaration that up to a quarter of a billion Africans «are projected to be exposed to increased water stress due The draft report lays out eight «key risks,» including sea level rise and storm surges that could affect hundreds of millions.

One meter of sea - level rise might not sound like much, but in many areas it would bring the sea inland a hundred meters or more (a few hundred feet), and even farther if storm - driven surges grew stronger.

INTERACTIVE MAP: Explore the hundreds of US coastal communities that will face chronic inundation and possible retreat as sea levels rise.

While this rise in sea levels would take hundreds of years to fully occur, inaction this century could lock the world into this fate.

Even at the rate of warming expected by the most alarming promoters of climate doom, it will take hundreds of years to achieve more than a modest rise in sea level.

Whatever it is you are thinkg of, it will not be englich villages from a few hundred years ago submerged by rising sea level.

Eight rows of housebricks including mortar is about two feet deep... the total predicted rise in sea level over the next one hundred years.

An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible sea - level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian data analysis shows

Towns have been found underwater from sea levels rising from hundreds of years ago.

Among all the statistics about temperature increase, polar melting and sea level rise associated with a warming world, the impact on hundreds of millions of people forced to leave their homes due to climate change is often not fully considered.

Hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by rising sea levels, increased precipitation, inland floods, more frequent and stronger cyclones and storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold.

«The high end of the unchecked pollution scenario would threaten the homes of hundreds of millions with chronic flooding or permanent submergence this century,» said Ben Strauss, a sea - level rise expert with Climate Central.

«Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4 °C.

The nation's problem of sea level rise is also NASA's problem, and not just because several satellites and hundreds of Earth scientists are monitoring the rising seas.

He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about 1 metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and 6 - 9 metres in the next few hundred years.

Finally, at least some of the pollutants we've emitted over the past century will, on our current understanding, stay there for hundreds or thousands of years, leading to long term problems of sea level rise.

Specific populations, such as those less economically developed or in lower - lying regions will be at a very high risk of impact and hundreds of millions of people will potentially be adversely affected by events like coastal flooding, saltwater infiltration into agricultural lands, and sea level rise.

The sea level has been rising, not just since 1961, but for a couple of hundred years... perhaps you can explain to us how a couple hundred years of sea level rise is evidence that humans have been affecting the climate in the last 16 years, because I sure don't see how they are even vaguely related.

Is it Venus - style runaway warming (which I think we can both agree would certainly be catastrophic), or would you consider a few meters of sea level rise turning several hundred million people into refugees «catastrophic?»

Sea level rise will be a gradual (so gradual as to be almost imperceptible in a human lifetime) process — just as it has been in the past few hundred years.

* 20 to 30 % of plant and animal species likely to be at increased risk of extinction * many millions more people than today projected to experience floods every year due to sea level rise * increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone in urban areas * hundreds of millions of people exposed to increased water stress

EMBARGOED till 1100 GMT on Wednesday 3 July In the first decade of this century global sea level rise increased at about double the rate of the preceding hundred years, the World Meteorological Organization says.

As an earlier World Bank - commissioned study noted, food stocks plummet, average summer temperatures reach extreme heatwave levels across vast swaths of the world, and sea - level rise threatens to displace hundreds of millions of people.