Sentences with phrase «assumed sea level increases»

And their CEO's repeatedly told their stockholders that there was no proof of carbon - driven climate change even as their contractors were building platforms for off - shore drilling that assumed sea level increases up to 20 ″ over the 25 year life of said platforms.

Not exact matches

Sea - level rise is expressed relative to 2006, and projections assume that emissions will continue to increase unabated (IPCC scenario RCP8.5).

«If we assume an optimistic scenario for greenhouse gas emissions — the RCP 2.6 scenario, [see Fact Box] which would result in a warming of about two degrees Celsius — then we can expect an increase in sea level similar to what we see in this video,» says climate modeller Martin Stendel from the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen.

This approximation (very) closely tracks sea - level rise from 1880 to 2000 by assuming that the rate at which height increases is a strict linear function of the temperature with a straight averaging of the calculated rate for a period from 15 years before to the point in time for which height is being calculated (i.e., the embedding period).

Even if we incorrectly assumed that CO2 caused the entire 1 - foot rise in sea level, if we remove that sea level increase Sandy would have still flooded New York's subways.

From this, the authors conclude that «rapid sea level rise may begin sooner than is generally assumed,» and also that a temperature increase of two degrees Celsius would put the world well beyond «danger.»

Assuming we still don't reform our ways, the 40 years after 2040 could then see another sharp 2 degree increase in temperatures — to 4 degrees Celsius — and another dramatic surge in sea level, culminating in a rise of 2 feet averaged across the globe, or more if we're unlucky.

Bolin & Eriksson's «buffer» factor would give about 10 times higher CO2 concentration in air vs. sea water at about 0.0003 atmospheres CO2 partial pressure, increasing dramatically to an air / water CO2 partition coefficient of about 50:1 at a CO2 partial pressure of about 0.003 atmospheres (10 times the assumed pre-industrial level; Bacastow & Keeling, 1973; see Section 7 below for more on the «buffer» factor).

If we assume the warmist notion that global land ice is shrinking AND dO is increasing during the pause, then we should see sea level rising at an accelerating rate.

«This H2O negative - feedback effect on CO2 is ignored in models that assume that warm moist air does not rise and form sunlight - reflecting clouds, but remains as humid air near sea level, absorbing infrared radiation from the sun, and approximately doubling the temperature rises predicted from atmospheric CO2 increases.

Gornitz et al. (1997) estimate that ground water is mined at a rate that has been increasing in time, currently equivalent to 0.2 to 1.0 mm / yr of sea level, but they assume that much of this infiltrates back into aquifers so the contribution to sea level rise is only 0.1 to 0.4 mm / yr.

A tiny increase in sea level would still mean a lot of extra heat has gone into the ocean assuming the rise was only from thermal expansion.

According to that report, although a sea level rise of 1.6 feet or more would negatively affect large portions of the City, the «worst - case scenario» for sea level rise projects a 1.6 foot increase to be reached in 2047 assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts... Furthermore, even assuming a 2 - foot sea level rise, only 0.1 square miles of land in the City that isn't potentially protected by levees or other flood control structures is below two feet of elevation.»

Mitigation scenarios (also known as climate intervention or climate policy scenarios) are defined in the TAR (Morita et al., 2001), as scenarios that «(1) include explicit policies and / or measures, the primary goal of which is to reduce GHG emissions (e.g., carbon taxes) and / or (2) mention no climate policies and / or measures, but assume temporal changes in GHG emission sources or drivers required to achieve particular climate targets (e.g., GHG emission levels, GHG concentration levels, radiative forcing levels, temperature increase or sea level rise limits).»