Sentences with phrase «rising seas the current»

Rising seas The current warming of the seas and the associated expansion of their waters account for about one - third of sea level rise around the world.

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Current generations, because kids born today will see sea levels rise by more than a foot, maybe six feet according to some projections, in their lifetimes.

Enter Ghosh's articulation of Husky's current post-recapitalization story and strategy, presented as focused on three growth pillars: its gas business in Southeast Asia, the jewel of which is the Liwan Gas Project in the South China Sea; a Western Canadian heavy - oil foundation, focused on the oilsands Sunrise Energy Projects; and White Rose offshore oil operations on the Atlantic coast.

These facilities could be impacted by long - term (> 100 years) rising sea levels; however, the range of currently estimated short - term rise in sea levels suggest that neither facility would be impacted within the current lifespan of the projects (< 20 years),» the company said in March 2017.

During the last Interglacial period the sea rose sixty - five feet above current levels.

«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.

This cycle coincides with the natural rise and fall of sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, which fluctuate roughly 0.2 degree Celsius every 60 years as warm currents shift.

The Museum of Modern Art's current exhibition «Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront» features ideas on how to stop lower Manhattan and other low - lying parts of New York City from going under when the sea surges during a big storm.

A recent study (pdf) estimated that at the current rate of global warming, Manhattan will face a sea level rise of 2 feet or more by 2080.

This gives confidence in the predictions of the current generation of ice - sheet models which are used to forecast future ice loss from Antarctica and resulting sea - level rise.»

Following the current trajectory toward a 2 - degree - Celsius temperature increase in the atmosphere, experts say sea levels could rise between 3 and 6 feet by 2100.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

«This partial drowning of the atolls is very interesting as it shows that the combination of rising sea level and ocean current can be detrimental to coral growth.»

Rising seas, increased damage from storm surge and more frequent bouts of extreme heat will have «specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity,» it says.

In a new paper, Hansen and colleagues warn that the current international plan to limit global warming isn't going to be nearly enough to avert disasters like runaway ice - sheet melting and consequent sea - level rise.

Extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use turns out to be an important missing piece of the puzzle in estimates for past and current sea - level changes and for projections of future rises

A 12 percent increase in the rate of aquifer recharge from added precipitation, combined with a projected 3 - foot rise in sea level by the end of the century, would raise groundwater levels in some parts of the city by an additional foot — up to 4 feet higher than current levels.

Most of the nation is about 1.5 meters above sea level, a threshold that could easily be breached by the end of the century if current projections of sea - level rise occur.

The new study found that the species then rose from less than 90,000 animals in 1975 to an estimated 281,450 in 2008, which was roughly the carrying capacity for sea lions in the California Current Ecosystem at that time.

By analyzing current building codes and the like, the New York City Panel on Climate Change determined the acceptable level of risk for its residents and is now prioritizing projects that hold to those same levels the perils from climate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heat waves.

At a first glance, the evidence that not all of the meltwater flows into the ocean via the large Asian currents and causes the sea level to rise seems positive.

With both West and East Antarctica affected by the change in currents, in the future abrupt rises in sea level become more likely.

«Dramatic rises in sea level are almost inevitable if we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the current rate.»

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

«Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted by current models,» said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studied the glacial flow in a paper in Science last year.

At the current rates that the sea is rising and land is sinking, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape, which has an average elevation of about 3 feet.

Current estimates of sea - level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consider only the effect of melting ice sheets, thermal expansion and anthropogenic intervention in water storage on land.

Co-author Peter Clark, an OSU paleoclimatologist, said that because current carbon dioxide, or CO2, levels are as high as they were 3 million years ago, «we are already committed to a certain amount of sea level rise.»

This phenomenon, called von Kármán vortex shedding, affects any elongated structure caught in wind or water currents such as lampposts, high rises and the long vertical pipes used for drilling oil at sea.

Under current projected rates of sediment sinking and sea - level rise, the area of land at risk on deltas globally is expected to increase by at least half by 2100.

The Greenland ice sheet is thought to be one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise over the past 20 years, accounting for 0.5 millimeters of the current total of 3.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

The Peninsula is one of the largest current contributors to sea - level rise and this new finding will enable researchers to make better predictions of ice loss from this region.

Kuhn, from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute, added, «This gives confidence in the predictions of the current generation of ice sheet models which are used to forecast future ice loss from Antarctica and resulting sea - level rise.»

Some of the world's most recognisable and important landmarks could be lost to rising sea - levels if current global warming trends are maintained over the next two millennia.

Current projections of global sea level rise do not account for the complicated behavior of these giant ice slabs as they interact with the atmosphere, the ocean and the land.

The current rate of relative sea - level rise (the combined effect of land subsidence and sea - level rise) along parts of the coastal delta is nearly 8 to 9 mm per year.

It begins with sea level rises of the far and nearer past, something I know something about, and then moves to the current day changes, something I know little about.

Current changes in the ocean around Antarctica are disturbingly close to conditions 14,000 years ago that new research shows may have led to the rapid melting of Antarctic ice and an abrupt 3 - 4 metre rise in global sea level.

The current era (at least under present definitions), known as the Holocene, began about 11,700 years ago, and was marked by warming and large sea level rise coming out of a major cool period, the Younger Dryas.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

«Summary of ocean current slowdowns, rapid sea level rise of east coast of North America, wavy jet streams and extreme weather events, Arctic and Antarctica connections and declining carbon sink in Amazon rainforests.

In the current situation, where the north is heating and the south is not, if the sea level rises that means the global ice quantity is INCREASING.

A new study published in the international journal Nature Communications has revealed how Western Australia's coral reefs have been affected by changing ocean currents, rising sea...

Within 50 years, if sea levels continue to rise at the current rate, the ocean will completely swamp the 10 - square - mile island.

By Kenneth Richard Geophysicist and tectonics expert Dr. Aftab Khan has unearthed a massive fault in the current understanding of (1) rapid sea level rise and its fundamental relation to (2) global - scale warming / polar ice melt.

To compensate partially for my participation in the hijacking of this thread, I point to how Rhode Island's coastal zone management (CZM) agency, the RI Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) is addressing current and future sea - level rise (SLR).

Even if world manages to limit global warming to 2 °C — the target number for current climate negotiations — sea levels may still rise at least 6 meters (20 feet) above their current heights, radically reshaping the world's coastline and affecting millions in the process.

Coral reefs and associated species, already stressed with current conditions [40], would be decimated by increased acidification, temperature and sea level rise.

This could be do to changes in ocean circulation, and warming waters reaching the grounding lines for ice shelves in Arctic and Antarctica, leading to non-linear increase in melting and sea level rise, impossible to avoid on our current path.

Sea level rise is set to accelerate the impact of swirling currents.