Sentences with phrase «against sea level»

Not exact matches

That has to be encouraging to anyone whose cause seems to have odds stacked high as security walls or rising sea - levels against them.

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.

The lawsuit, against BP Plc, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, follows similar lawsuits filed last year by San Francisco and other California cities seeking billions of dollars in damages from rising sea levels due to climate impacts.

By validating model results against geological observations, the study indicates that changes in runoff, sea level and wave energy have profoundly affected the past evolution of the Great Barrier Reef not only in regard to reefs evolution but also sediment fate from source - to - sink.

Other areas in the Afar region are below sea level, however, and could see flooding before that if similar rifting occurs near the coastal volcanoes to the north and east that form a natural levee against the sea.

«At different points, they could be contributing to the sea level story or against it,» says Haywood.

Others present what the area could look like with construction to protect against sea - level rise, like a sea wall or an eco-berm, a landscaped levee.

The interaction occurred 149 minutes into the three - hour program, drawing in several candidates who repudiated the idea of enacting an «insurance policy» to guard against the risk of sea - level rise and other impacts of planetary warming.

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

During the initial visit in mid-2011, they were able to observe the levels of destruction caused, while a follow - up in 2013 enabled them to see the recovery, newly - completed sea defences and the design guidelines being implemented to mitigate against future catastrophes.

The revised estimate for sea - level rise comes from including new processes in the 3 - dimensional ice sheet model, and testing them against past episodes of high sea - levels and ice retreat.

Yesterday New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed a $ 19.5 billion plan to protect his home town against future sea level rise and other effects of climate change such as heat waves.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

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.

She has shown, in an ice sheet model with gravitationally self - consistent sea level, there is actually a sea level fall at the grounding line, which acts to stabilize against the marine ice sheet instability.

Coastal cities, for example, must have predictable planning against rising sea levels, should worry about landslides on slopes, flooding, etc. resulting from inclement rains.

Up the staircase, on the villa's second level, the covered balcony with alfresco lounge and a second outdoor dining table is perfect for sunset dinners against the backdrop of the sea.

Going against our previous inclination to not use any other road transport, we escaped the heat of Oaxaca and crossed the border into Chiapas, arriving in the state capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez nearly 2,000 feet above sea level.

«We are counting down the days until her official debut in Seattle this summer, where guests will be able to race around the world's largest two - level race track at sea against the backdrop of Alaska's wild frontier and enjoy other first - at - sea experiences.»

The models serve merely to quantify these basic facts more accurately, calculate the regional climate response, and compute effects (such as the expected increase in ocean heat content or sea level) which can be tested against observed data from the real world.

Against them, otherwise, world will full of nuclear power plants, nuclear waste, they are dangerous and collapsed by earthquake, flood, sea level rising and terriorists.

A particular challenge is posed by the positioning of the gauges along the coasts, because coastal sea level can be affected by local effects such as the wind piling up water against the shore.

Justin Gillis has written a news article putting the paper in context with other recent research on Antarctic dynamics and sea level, as well as with policy debates about the current value of fossil fuels against the momentous costs that could attend greatly expanded use:

Severe weather, river flooding, heat waves, drought, sea level rise, increased pests and disease and on and on — we can not defend against the worst case for every threat.

How could they seal their subways and utilites against a much higer sea level?

It's the best «future proofing» against climate change, sea level rise and the catastrophic consequences likely to play out on coasts, as well as inland, in the future,» said Professor Geisler.

A similar pattern seems to have occurred during the 20th century too - short - term accelerations and decelerations against a background of long - term acceleration in sea level rise.

The models are gauged against the following observation - based datasets: Climate Prediction Center Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP; Xie and Arkin, 1997) for precipitation (1980 — 1999), European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts 40 - year reanalysis (ERA40; Uppala et al., 2005) for sea level pressure (1980 — 1999) and Climatic Research Unit (CRU; Jones et al., 1999) for surface temperature (1961 — 1990).

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — A tense opening session of the 44th Pacific Islands Forum has been dominated by appeals from Pacific leaders for «real action» against the threat of rising sea levels associated with climate change.

Conversely, low sea level pressure anomalies over the Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin keep the Arctic Ocean pack ice up against the western entransea level pressure anomalies over the Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin keep the Arctic Ocean pack ice up against the western entranSea and Canada Basin keep the Arctic Ocean pack ice up against the western entrance.

«Our defence forces might find themselves torn between humanitarian relief operations and guarding our borders against climate refugees, as rising sea - levels swamp low - lying areas, forcing millions of climate refugees across India's border,» Pachauri said.

-LSB-...] One very problematic aspect of this work is that all the tests are against proxies of local records of sea level whereas the models are of global sea level.

As examples of the issues involved, the CCC points out that if new nuclear power stations are built around the coast, they must be protected against sea - level rise well beyond their operational lifetime.

Individual model parameterizations were constrained by paleontological data, and the overall modeled relationship between global temperature and sea level matched well against records from four previous warm periods: preindustrial, the last interglacial, marine isotope stage 11, and the mid-Pliocene.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

Which leaves the state with a four - year «cooling off» period against climate change's sea - level effects.

However, he also supports the idea that warming has recently stopped and has argued against some well - established points of climate science, such as observed sea level rise and glacier melting.

Action that helps cope with the effects of climate change - for example construction of barriers to protect against rising sea levels, or conversion to crops capable of surviving high temperatures and drought.

As sea levels rise with climate change, beaches are losing ground against ever - encroaching waters.

All you have against CO2 is that it might cause some of the warming and sea level rise — but the effects of the concurrent rise of CO2, rainfall, and temperature have been beneficial to life.

Here are some of my thoughts after this week's news that San Francisco and Oakland have filed lawsuits against five oil and natural companies, arguing that the companies should pay for sea walls to protect the cities in case ocean levels rise due to changing climate:

All I merely observed is that, against expectation, that there appears to have been a near two year sea level rise hiatus.

As Stamford is a coastal city, its 2030 District will also implement a proactive vision to ensure resiliency against projected sea - level rise and storm surge.

Putting up «sea level rise since 1961» as an argument either for or against human effects on the climate is a joke.

California cities San Francisco and Oakland filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies on Wednesday seeking billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change... Marin and San Mateo counties and Imperial Beach, California, in July brought similar public nuisance and failure to warn lawsuits alleging climate change impacts.

With the impact of melting Antarctic ice potentially devastating in the world's fight against rising sea levels, this conference could be vital in solving one of our greatest challenges.

Tuvalu has just received the Green Climate Fund's first major outlay, the first US $ 2 million in a planned $ 50 million U.S. project to dredge and protect the coasts of several of Tuvalu's atolls against flooding caused by sea - level rise.

Faced with the possibility of devastating consequences brought by rising sea levels, five cities and three counties in California, along with New York City, have filed civil lawsuits against several oil and gas companies.

The also support resilience against rising sea levels.

Clement et al (2009), Observational and Model Evidence for Positive Low - Level Cloud Feedback — regressed cloud amounts against sea surface temperature.