Sentences with phrase «as global sea levels»

The melting of glaciers will affect people around the world, their drinking water supplies, water needed to grow food and supply energy, as well as global sea levels.

As global sea level rises, low - lying island nations must reckon how to cope not only with loss of agricultural acreage and increased vulnerability to storms, but also with reduced habitat for endemic species

There is no evidence to suggest that NC sea level is the same as global sea level -LSB-...] It seems that NC sea level curve (original curve, not K11 simulation) is overestimating the 20th century sea level rise by 12 cm -LSB-...] During the 20th century NC proxy sea level shows 70 % higher sea level rise than observed global sea level.

According to the NYTimes blog Green Inc., the Dutch are designing floating cities to replace or augment land - based cities as the global sea level rises over the next few centuries.

Not exact matches

Evidence from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that global sea levels in the last two decades are rising dramatically as surface temperatures warm oceans and...

These stories may or may not have been based on an event, such as the breach of the land barrier that kept the Black Sea below the level of the Mediterranean Sea or even the flooding of the north end of the Red Sea, but there is no evidence for a global flood.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

The troubled relationship with India, along with its paralytic politics and external factors such as global warming and rising sea levels, contributes to the existential threat faced by Bangladesh.

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...

He is the principal investigator for a mission called Oceans Melting Greenland (affectionately known as OMG), a five - year effort to assess the extent to which warmer oceans are melting Greenland's glaciers, and how this information can be used to better estimate global sea level rise.

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.

A Florida Republican calls for action to address rising sea levels as a result of global warming

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

The team calculates that it could be pushing up global sea levels by as much as 0.16 millimetres each year.

It demonstrates that during a global climate transition in the late last interglacial, also known as marine isotope substage 5e (MIS 5e), abrupt multi-meter sea - level changes occurred.

As Congress continues to consider policy options to combat the effects of sea level rise and climate change, one thing is clear: There is no silver bullet solution to this global problem.

For example, as global CO2 levels rise, increases in the acidity of the ocean are expected to have dramatic impacts on sea life.

Sustaining fresh water and energy resources; mitigating the effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe weather, landslides, coastal erosion, and solar flares; and dealing with the consequences of global warming and sea - level rise are issues that affect all populations, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or cultural traditions.

As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.

Alaskan and the Canadian Arctic land - based glacier melt ranks with that of the Greenland Ice Sheet as important contributors to global sea - level rise that is already underway.

And while they may not pose the same global threats as those in Greenland and Antarctica, which hold great potential to affect global sea levels in the future, there are still many human communities in their wake that stand to suffer from their loss.

«Regional sea - level scenarios: Helping US Northeast plan for faster - than - global rise: Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.&global rise: Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.&Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.»

Bangladeshis have watched high tides rise 10 times faster than the global average, and sea levels there could increase as much as 13 feet by 2100.

SPEED UP The collapse of West Antarctica's glaciers may be unavoidable, and the ice sheet's demise could raise global sea level by as much as 4 meters, researchers reported.

Geologic evidence, such as ancient beaches from the Pliocene, suggest that global sea levels then were as much as 25 meters higher than today.

Your feature on uneven global distribution of sea level rise as ice sheets melt highlights a double whammy for northern...

Greenland is more than twice as large as Texas and if the entire ice sheet melted, scientists estimate global sea levels would rise roughly 24 feet.

The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.

Global warming causes mountain glaciers to melt, which, apart from the shrinking of the Greenlandic and Antarctic ice sheets, is regarded as one of the main causes of the present global sea - levelGlobal warming causes mountain glaciers to melt, which, apart from the shrinking of the Greenlandic and Antarctic ice sheets, is regarded as one of the main causes of the present global sea - levelglobal sea - level rise.

For example, New York City is expected to see regional sea levels rise as much as 30 percent more than the global average.

Global average sea level has risen by roughly 0.11 inch (3 millimeters) per year since 1993 due to a combination of water expanding as it warms and melting ice sheets.

A separate report indicated that the rate of global sea - level rise had accelerated during the 20th century; if it continues as predicted, by 2100 seas will lap shores 12 inches higher than they did in 1990.

As global temperature rise, sea level rises too, meaning hurricane surges can reach further inland.

The report finds that the U.S. is particularly vulnerable to projected sea level rise; areas such as the Northeast and western Gulf of Mexico could face rates that exceed global average sea level rise.

Too much debate treats temperature (and especially the most recent global average) as the sole indicator, whereas many other factors are at play including sea levels, ocean acidity, ice sheets, ecosystem trends, and many more.

Just as the underlying change in sea level is swamped by the daily and monthly changes, so the annual variation in global temperature masks any underlying trends.

People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.

When the planet's big ice sheets collapsed at the end of the last ice age, their melting caused global sea levels to rise as much as 100 meters in roughly 10,000 years, which is fast in geological time, Mann noted.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

The melting of Greenland contributes to the global sea level, but the loss of mass also means that the ice sheet's own gravitational field weakens and thus does not attract the surrounding sea as strongly.

DeConto's findings suggest that even if countries meet the pledges made as part of the UN climate agreements in Paris last year, global sea level could still rise 1 metre by 2100.

A working group known as PALSEA2 (Paleo constraints on sea level rise) used past records of local change in sea level and converted them to a global mean sea level by predicting how the surface of the Earth deforms due to changes in ice - ocean loading of the crust, along with changes in gravitational attraction on the ocean surface.

That's bad news for global sea levels as well as would - be ice dwellers.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

When you're talking about global warming and melting ice caps, as everyone seems to be, a five - millimeter adjustment in the modeled diameter of the Earth could be the difference between sea levels appearing to rise from any given year to the next and then appearing to drop.

In addition, global sea level can fluctuate due to climate patterns such as El Niños and La Niñas (the opposing phases of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO) which influence ocean temperature and global precipitation patterns.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unabated.

Current projections of global sea level rise do not account for the complicated behavior of these giant ice slabs as they interact with the atmosphere, the ocean and the land.

All of that heat in the oceans also raised global sea levels to a new record high, more than 2.5 inches above what it was in 1993, as water expands as it heats up.