Sentences with phrase «also contribute to the sea level rise»

Melting of glaciers and ice sheets is also contributing to sea level rise at increasing rates.6

But right now it is also contributing to sea level rise at a faster rate.

CO2 is also contributing to sea level rise because as CO2 enters the ocean, it warms up the water and the water expands, and when it expands it has to go somewhere meaning the ocean will get bigger and our beaches will get smaller.

Not exact matches

But, as the world's glaciers recede, melting ice is also contributing to the rise in sea levels.

It also causes the water itself to expand — so - called thermal expansion — contributing to a sea level rise of 0.17 meter (nearly seven inches) in the 20th century.

The estimates of ice loss also helped them calculate the amount of sea level rise contributed by the ice sheet prior to 1990 — a number missing from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report because of the lack of direct observations.

Estimates of sea level rise also contributed to the modelled changes in surge height.

Climate - driven sea level rise has also been established, contributing to flooding in coastal areas.

Rising sea levels also contribute to the damage inflicted by hurricanes such as as Sandy.

The spike in temperatures in 1998 may also have contributed for several years to reduced government attention to climate change, which has been linked to more heat waves, floods, downpours and rising sea levels.

The Challenger expedition measurements also revealed that thermal expansion of sea water caused by global warming contributed about 40 percent of the total sea level rise seen in tide gauges from 1873 to 1955.

Evidence is also strong that Alaska ice mass loss contributes to global sea level rise, 65 with latest results permitting quantitative evaluation of losses globally.66

Also shown are the various components contributing to sea level rise (Church and White 2011)

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

It also does not follow that we know the rate that CO2 contributes to the warming, sea level rise, etc..

The melting of ice that now covers land, such as mountain glaciers, also contributes to the sea - level rise and most likely results from global warming.

The uncertainty in the penetration of the heat into the oceans also contributes to the future sea level rise uncertainty.