Sentences with phrase «as was sea level»

Ocean heat content increase as I said in ARGO was fairly modest as was sea level rise.

Not exact matches

But the Pentagon maintains that climate change impacts, including refugees from drought - stricken areas of the world and rising sea levels, are a significant threat to national security, as The New York Times reported.

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

As someone who likes the sea levels where they are, I find taxing greenhouse gas emissions compelling, like taxing cigarettes, which reduced smoking, extended lives, and increased revenues.

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...

More and more people see the flooding, read the stories about sea levels, and worry privately — but everyone else seems to be going along as if nothing was wrong, so they go along too.

As sea levels rise and disaster risks to coastal communities grow, some planners are broaching the idea of a «strategic retreat» from areas that face persistent floods and fires.

Massive demographic and economic shifts, as well as historic levels of technological and media disruption, are turning this once predictable industry — where «average» was king — into a sea of turbulent change, leaving consumer behavior permanently altered.

Simon is on the advisory boards of charitable organizations such as the Canadian Sea Turtle Network, which works to conserve endangered sea turtles in Canadian waters and worldwide and Level, which combats injustice and supports projects that advance equality in rights and opportunities worldwiSea Turtle Network, which works to conserve endangered sea turtles in Canadian waters and worldwide and Level, which combats injustice and supports projects that advance equality in rights and opportunities worldwisea turtles in Canadian waters and worldwide and Level, which combats injustice and supports projects that advance equality in rights and opportunities worldwide.

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»

Seashells are found in strange places because sea levels changed over millions of years and because of geological shifts such as earthquakes and volcanoes.

Strangely, just as welfare states are drowning in a sea of debt whilst also increasingly being seen as at least partly responsible for lower levels of family formation and employment, the Church has started to question welfare states rather less.

The second cause of sea level increase is the melting of land ice — such as glaciers and ice sheets.

We know that sea levels are increasing thanks to the satellite observations, collated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as coastal tide gauge records monitored by Australia's leading science body, the CSIRO.

The inundation came because the Bay of Bengal was some inches higher than normal (as climate changes, sea level rises because warm water takes up more space).

One is changed environmental conditions for a discrete subpopulation of the original population, such as when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels, cutting species into subgroups.

Science has discovered chariot wheels in the Red Sea, sea level rises above trees during the period of the great flood, and skeletal remains of giants (though there is concerted effort to keep these under wraps as «hoaxes»Sea, sea level rises above trees during the period of the great flood, and skeletal remains of giants (though there is concerted effort to keep these under wraps as «hoaxes»sea level rises above trees during the period of the great flood, and skeletal remains of giants (though there is concerted effort to keep these under wraps as «hoaxes»).

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

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.

However, the reality is that you can also say the sea level is fine tuned as well.

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

I'm so glad you find them delicious — I'm always amazed how tasty they turn out given their few ingredients — magic:) As for the rise, are you baking at sea level or high - altitude?

We are about as close to sea level as you can get!

Grown at 2,200 feet above sea level, Wild Horse Peak Mountain vineyard varietals include quality Cabs, Syrahs and Merlots that are big and bold as the wild - west names given to their vineyard blocks, like Dry Rock Gulch, Devil's Hole and Lone Boulder Ridge.

We walked along this rocky platform.It is thickly encrusted with sea shells, such as mussels.It was beautiful at Pett Level today.

In fact, a curveball is said to break approximately 20 % less in Colorado as opposed to a ballpark located at sea level.

Given it was being played at 3,800 metres above sea level, the match wasn't a high tempo affair, as Tigres took a Mourinho-esque «park the bus approach».

For example, a curveball is said to break approximately 20 % less in Colorado as opposed to a ballpark located at sea level.

It's directly measurable by sea level as most of the rises we are seeing are due to nothing more than thermal expansion (even the skeptics don't argue that, the measurements are solid, and there's no explanation other than «it's getting hotter»).

The highest elevation in the county is a U.S. Geological Survey benchmark known as «Bailey» at approximately 299 m (980 feet) above sea level in Mountain Lakes Park near the Connecticut state line.

A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.

He called for the building of levees or other barriers to counter the threat of storm flooding as sea level rises; in New York Harbor the water is about a foot higher than it was a century ago.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Based on the anatomical features of the fossil, Isthminia was either a close relative or ancestor of today's Amazon river dolphin (which probably invaded South America's river systems when sea - level rise expanded those habitats about 6 million years ago), or it was a descendant of an older and as - yet - undiscovered river dolphin that went back to sea.

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...

The sea level around a melting ice cap will fall even as distant shores are inundated

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.

As sea levels rise, many people will be forced to higher ground, Nunn says.

The first of these pathways, marine ice sheet instability, has been studied for decades, but the second, marine ice cliff instability, has only recently been considered as an important contributor to future sea level change.

The WAIS is of great interest to researchers as two of its largest glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, are draining into the sea and contributing to sea - level rise.

«Sea level observations are telling us that during the past 100 years sea level has risen at an average rate of 1.7 millimeters per year,» most of that due to thermal expansion as the top 700 meters of the oceans warms and expanSea level observations are telling us that during the past 100 years sea level has risen at an average rate of 1.7 millimeters per year,» most of that due to thermal expansion as the top 700 meters of the oceans warms and expansea level has risen at an average rate of 1.7 millimeters per year,» most of that due to thermal expansion as the top 700 meters of the oceans warms and expands.

The white line represents the present - day Mediterranean coastline, blue regions show the submarine area in case of a 2 km Mediterranean sea level lowering as it was proposed during the Messinian salinity crisis and red circles show the location of volcanic provinces whose activity was enhanced during the Messinian (the size of the circle is proportional the activity augmentation).

As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitaAs sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitaas «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitaas they protect habitat.

While the altimeter data also showed that the liquid in some of the canyons around Ligeia Mare is at sea level — the same altitude as the liquid in the sea itself — in others it sits tens to hundreds of feet (tens of meters) higher in elevation.

During this time, precipitation and meltwater seeped into the exposed shelf areas and filled water tables, which were then covered up by the ocean as sea levels rose again.

In South Africa it will be different, as whoever wins will have played games at sea level and at altitude.

As glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University notes: «The ice sheet is losing mass, this loss has increased over time, [and] it is not the dominant term in sea - level rise — but it matters.»

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