Sentences with phrase «accelerated sea level rise due»
The complaint alleged that Oakland was already experiencing impacts from accelerated sea level rise due to climate change.
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This stress can contribute to accelerated loss of marsh area through erosion in a region where marshes are already rapidly disappearing, due to high relative sea level rise.
Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,
The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»
Can someone then tell me how you can infer that sea level rise is accelerating due to AGW, when compared with sea level rise for the first half of the 20th century?
(NASA study shows that sea level rise rates are accelerating due to the melting of large glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.
The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated sea level rise as the climate changed it might already be too late to replace the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.
As we know the oceans have cooled, it follows that any «accelerated rise in sea - levels» can not be due to warming of the oceans.
And then, of course, we're told that sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate — a catastrophically accelerating rate — due to the -LSB-...]
Some claim that sea level rise has accelerated due to human - induced global warming, while others claim that it has remained fairly constant for the past 100 years or more.
This deceleration is mainly due to the slowdown of ocean thermal expansion in the Pacific during the last decade, as a part of the Pacific decadal - scale variability, while the land - ice melting is accelerating the rise of the global ocean mass - equivalent sea level.
Hemant Shah, president and CEO of Newark, Calif. - based RMS, identifies three troubling factors: the city is sinking due to thick sediments accumulating along the Atlantic Ocean's basin; accelerated climate change in making the sea level rise, and the level of Atlantic basin hurricane activity has increased in recent years.