Sentences with phrase «actual sea level increases»

But Taylor said that the correction seemed bigger when compared with actual sea level increases.

I say lets wait until 2100 and see what the actual sea level increase has been and then decide what to do based on that actual observation rather than these crazy scenarios which find no support in what has happened before.

Not exact matches

gavin, I am interested in what an x feet (for various x) increase in sea level means as a reduction in actual global land area but perhaps more relevantly in the resultant increase / decrease in habitable land area (increased I imagine in Canada, Siberia, Antarctica etc).

That is, it does not represent (and never has) an actual increase in the level of the sea surface above the geoid (or, easier to imagine, increasing distance from the center of the Earth).

Those who own land on high ground in the city can't escape the increased property taxes needed to pay for the consequences of actual sea level rise, and the reduction in property values, and the general economic decline.

And yet, the actual forecasts in the IPCC (even if you believe them) are far from apocalyptic — 8.5 inches sea level rise, some increased droughts and hurricanes (unless you take the most extreme scenario).

Steve Nerem, the director of the widely relied - upon research center, told FoxNews.com that his group added the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold.

The barystatic sea level rise, the actual increasing volume of the ocean, in particular, is masked from measurements that are based on satellite observations.