Sentences with phrase «about sea level change»

Anyway what makes you think you know more about sea level change, apart from your dogmatic arrogance?

What about sea level change?

By combining information about the carbon dioxide emissions released by burning the fuels sold by these companies, with statistics about sea level changes, the researchers tried to determine the proportional responsibility of each company.

Regarding comments about sea level changes.

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Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

The other issue is when we talk about doing something about climate change, doing something means to avoid major sea level rise, we need to reduce emissions globally starting today... seven percent per year.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

His session allowed him to talk about how human climate change in national parks is melting glaciers, raising sea level, killing trees, and causing other impacts.

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.

For example, the International Panel on Climate Change, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» heChange, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» hechange, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» he said.

Climate change projections that look ahead one or two centuries show a rapid rise in temperature and sea level, but say little about the longer picture.

It's about climate change and sea level rise, but it's also about the way that our economic system doesn't allow us to afford a decent future.

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

They discussed the importance of talking about sea - level rise and climate change as they brainstormed what advice they should give to university presidents.

So I think it's very realistic, if we want to look at the adjustment to that big disequilibrium then that we have generated, to look at those sort of rates of change that we will eventually achieve; and maybe not this century, we'll be working our way up to that, but certainly in the next century, we need to think about that as the rate of sea - level rise.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

These results may help resolve a paleoclimate debate about the relationship between monsoonality and sea level and provide a glimpse of changing seasons on an ancient mega-continent.

Uncertainty about rain, little uncertainty about sea level rise Climate change could also affect precipitation in California, though the two models USGS used in its research produced different results.

«I have concerns about the ecological impact that climate change has on our planet, especially as it relates to rising sea - levels,» Curbelo said in a statement to ClimateWire.

From sea level changes to the fate of the pika, scientists have given concerned citizens a lot to be concerned about when it comes to climate change.

By comparing several years of measurements, climate researchers and oceanographers can now draw conclusions about changes in sea level and ocean currents.

The Greenland ice sheet loses about 227 gigatonnes of ice per year and contributes about 0.7 millimeters to the currently observed mean sea level change of about 3 mm per year.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

The long - term average rate of sea - level rise in Hampton Roads is about one foot per century, but that pace has accelerated sharply recently, which makes it challenging to gauge future rates of change.

The researchers used information about these different components to project changes in extreme sea levels by 2100 under different greenhouse gas scenarios.

Sea surface temperatures are higher because of climate change, he said, adding about 5 to 10 percent to precipitation levels.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

When they factored in a constant level of CO2, they discovered a surprising development: The change required a lower overall atmospheric pressure — about one - sixth today's pressure at sea level.

«Hybrid» solution with small barriers affordable now Assuming a «middle climate change» scenario of about a foot of sea - level rise by midcentury, the team further assessed the cost - effectiveness of each flood - control strategy by measuring whether its benefits, or avoided risk, would outweigh the investment costs.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

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.

The Sydney Morning Herald, no doubt attempting to reverse The Australian «s sunny optimism about climate change, is reporting predictions of multi-metre sea level rise by the turn of the century.

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.

But roughly speaking, if you do an LGM run and only reduce sea level, put in the ice sheets, change the vegetation, add some dust (though that one is still rough), then you get about 50 % the way you want to go.

«They were questions about how ice sheets relate to sea level, changes in the ocean, changes in the atmosphere and also changes in weather and long - term climate patterns,» says Dr Kennicutt.

It will be able to map about 95 % of the ice - free oceans» topography every 10 days and help scientists monitor ocean circulation, climate change and sea level rise.

We should be strengthening public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical diseases even if we weren't worried about the climate change, we should be avoiding further development on flood plains at next to sea level just because of storm damage even in an unchanging climate.

On average, climate change is causing sea levels to rise about 3 mm / year, but zoom in any one location, and the rate might look very different.

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.

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Learning about topography can deepen student's understanding of consequences of climate change, such as sea level rise.

For example, the other day, I heard (I think it was on NPR) a retired engineer with the Navy talk about the impact of potential changes in sea level in the Bay Area and Northern California.

This means that, e.g., if heat moves from the tropical surface water (temp about 25C) to surface waters at lower temps, the net effect is a subsidence of sea level — even without any change in total heat content.

Kerry Emanuel, who's been studying Atlantic Ocean hurricanes in the context of climate change for decades, spoke on the Warm Regards podcast about the mix of subsidized seaside development and rising sea levels driven by global warming.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

The new research is a regional climate study of historical sea level pressures, winds and temperatures over the eastern Pacific Ocean and draws no conclusions about climate change on a global scale.

Climate alarm depends on several gloomy assumptions — about how fast emissions will increase, how fast atmospheric concentrations will rise, how much global temperatures will rise, how warming will affect ice sheet dynamics and sea - level rise, how warming will affect weather patterns, how the latter will affect agriculture and other economic activities, and how all climate change impacts will affect public health and welfare.

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near - term stability of global sea levels.

It seems that, not content with having lied to us about shrinking glaciers, increasing hurricanes, and rising sea levels, the IPCC's latest assessment report also told us a complete load of porkies about the danger posed by climate change to the Amazon rainforest.