Sentences with phrase «average sea levels far»

And there's a «probably low» but unknown risk that warmer rising seas could undermine the ice sheet that covers western Antarctica, raising average sea levels far more and more quickly than the roughly 1 meter (3 feet) they're now projected to increase by 2100.

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But rising sea levels and increasing average temperatures due to climate change are further expanding the destructive reach of these storms.

Citing international scientific estimates, the task force says the region can expect a further 2 - to 5 - inch rise in average sea level by as early as 2020.

Since the 19th century, sea level has shot up more than 2 millimeters per year on average, far faster than other periods of global temperature change.

Going back even further to the age of the dinosaurs, life flourished in a time of high CO2 and generally warm average temperatures with high sea levels.

When local observational data, scientific studies and engineering professionals all agree that current sea level rise is at historical average (albeit showing a statistically insignificant decline) I think we can put off spending on further research until our conditions warrant.

How likely is it actually that the rate of sea level rise in this century would on average be only half of the rate currently observed, despite further warming?

Although the IPCC climate models have performed remarkably well in projecting average global surface temperature warming thus far, Rahmstorf et al. (2012) found that the IPCC underestimated global average sea level rise since 1993 by 60 %.

NASA satellite data reveals how this year's minimum sea ice extent, reached on Sept. 9 as depicted here, declined to a level far smaller than the 30 - year average (in yellow) and opened up Northwest Passage shipping lanes (in red).

At the core of the issue is the fact that, as far as we know, CO ₂ levels are currently very unusual for the Late Pleistocene, about twice the average, while temperatures, sea levels, and ice are within Holocene variability range.

The average rate of sea - level rise in the 20th century was 15 cm / century, but in the quarter - century since 1990 it has been 30 cm / century and is showing signs of further acceleration in more recent measurements.

Statistically might it not seem more likely that we are due to revert at least towards an average of sea level for overall Phanerozoic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanerozoic, or even a further transgression?

Scientists are unraveling the reasons why some parts of the world are experiencing sea level increases far beyond the global average.

Melting of ice raises the global average sea level, and reduces the gravitational attraction from the ice, which allows the sea level near the ice to fall while sea level far from the ice rises more than the global average.

Sea level rise has been minimal so far, with a global average of 17 centimeters (6 inches) during the last century.

What does «average global sea - level rise» mean, and what are the global and regional consequences when all the ice melts on the far - away West Antarctic Ice Sheet?

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.