Sentences with phrase «about global sea»

Yes I'm concerned about global sea - levels rising and I do understand that the world doesn't magically stabilize in 2100.

Chief among those is what policy makers will actually do with a document that voices concern over climate change with even stronger language than before, and with greater resolution on predictions about global sea - level rise.

But what about global sea level rise?

It's an exciting time, though, with all this new data about global sea temperature, sea level and other features of climate....

«Accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica documented: Study findings will help improve predictions about global sea level rise.»

Not exact matches

Even if you don't care about global warming or sea levels, power and unproductive employees cost money.

Outside groups like Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation — which offers sustainable housing to residents of the Lower Ninth Ward — Global Green USA and AmeriCorps all helped bring about a sea change in consciousness about sustainable housing and renewable energy, Cantin says.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

Over the past 20 years, Greenland melt contributed about 16 percent of the global total of sea - level rise annually, according to the study.

This year's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

Since 1995, researchers found that Greenland has lost a total of about 4,000 gigatons of ice, which has become the biggest single contributor to the rise in global sea levels.

If both caps are composed completely of water, the combined volumes are equivalent to a global layer 66 to 100 feet deep, about one third the minimum volume for the ancient seas of Mars.

Moreover, in a worst - case scenario, global sea level could rise by about 8 feet by 2100.

MIAMI — One of the first sea - level rise maps Broadway Harewood saw was a few years back, when climate activists gathered in his neighborhood to talk about how global warming would affect people in less - affluent South Florida communities.

The report's authors, who also include scientists from federal agencies, Columbia University and the South Florida Water Management District, concluded that evidence supports a «worst - case» global average sea - level rise of about 8.2 feet by 2100.

The last glacial maximum was about 18,000 years ago, when the Patagonian ice sheet expands to include about 10 meters [33 feet] of global sea level.

The Bering Sea alone generates about 30 percent of the global harvest of seafood.

If all of Greenland's ice were to melt, global sea levels would rise about six meters; if all of Antarctica went, it would contribute about 60 meters.

In comparison, global sea levels are rising by about 3 millimetres a year, and a recent study estimated that one - third of that comes from ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland.

«Currently, about 400 million people are using desalinated water and it has been projected that by 2025, 14 percent of the global population will be forced to use sea water,» said Md..

Their research, published in Nature Climate Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

We obtain a value for the global, eustatic sea - level rise contribution of about 3.3 meters, with important regional variations.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

Rignot and his colleagues say that Greenland contributes about 17 % of the annual 3 - millimetre rise in global sea levels.

People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.

A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels on multiple occasions over the past three million years.

The study also finds that the Greenland ice sheet may contain more ice, with a greater potential to raise global sea levels, than previous research has suggested — about 2.75 inches more, to be exact.

That's the finding of a new study published on Thursday in Science, which uses updated information about how temperature is recorded, particularly at sea, to take a second look at the global average temperature.

Altogether, the new study suggests that the ice sheet has the potential to raise global sea levels by about 24.3 feet, should it melt entirely.

When you're talking about global warming and melting ice caps, as everyone seems to be, a five - millimeter adjustment in the modeled diameter of the Earth could be the difference between sea levels appearing to rise from any given year to the next and then appearing to drop.

American impact While global sea levels have risen about 2.75 inches (7 centimeters) over the past 22 years, the west coast of the United States has not seen much of a rise in ocean levels.

Global sea levels are rising at about 3 millimeters a year owing to warming waters and melting ice.

Sea level rise caused by global warming can prove extremely destructive to island habitats, which hold about 20 % of the world's biodiversity.

Global sea levels rose at a rate of about 3.5 millimeters annually in the 1990s, a dynamic largely attributed to rising temperatures.

Lack of knowledge about the ice sheets and their behavior is the primary reason that projections of global sea level rise includes such a wide range of plausible future conditions.

This suggests that about 1 foot of global sea level rise by 2100 is probably a realistic low end.

From that number, they have calculated Greenland's contribution to sea level rise over that time, which they estimate to be about 10 to 17 percent of the total global sea level rise of about 1 foot since 1900.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.

«Global sea levels rose about 2 mm per year over the last century, but this rate increased to 3.4 mm / yr over the last decade.

Regardless of emissions pathway and approach, there is likely to be between about 16 and 40 cm (0.5 and 1.3 feet) of global average sea - level rise in the first half of the century.

That's the finding of a new study published on Thursday in Science, which uses updated information about how temperature is recorded, particularly at sea, to take a second look at the global

Here we have CO2 levels around 400 ppm, global average temperature about 2 or 3 degrees higher, and sea levels 25 to 35 meters higher (think ten story building).

The important point is that the uncertainty is not about whether continued rapid CO2 emissions would cause large sea level rise, submerging global coastlines — it is about how soon the large changes would begin.

Ocean heating accounts for about 40 percent of global sea level rise, because water expands as it warms up; global average sea level from January through November was also a record high, the WMO said.

As Arctic temperatures rise at about double the rate of the planet as a whole, Greenland's surface has been melting at a steady clip, contributing about 30 percent of the foot of global sea level rise since 1900.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

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With cautionary messages about human prejudice and our fragile world, Triton blends a touching family tale with a global battle for the soul of the sea!

Our location on the southern coastline of England, along the constantly changing boundary between land and sea, seemed a significant vantage point to look outwards and think about the interrelationship between the local and the global.