Sentences with phrase «catastrophic sea level rise»

It seems like most presidential candidates this cycle refuse to adopt any policies that reflect awareness of climate change, let alone catastrophic sea level rise in less than 100 years.

Given the potential for catastrophic sea level rise or storms, this low - lying nation is investing in ways to «climate - proof» the country.

Is it at a scale that will produce catastrophic sea level rise right now?

Photo by Andrew Mandemaker, CC BY - SA 2.5 Only science deniers don't believe in catastrophe By Kenneth Richard Now that the latest James Hansen catastrophic sea level rise paper (Hansen -LSB-...]

The process speeds up when a large fraction of the financial community — mortgage bankers and opinion - makers, along with a smaller but substantial fraction of the public — realize that it is too late to stop catastrophic sea level rise.

The focus of their concern is two vulnerable glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region — the Thwaites and the Pine Island glaciers — where destabilization could trigger a collapse of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet and trigger resulting catastrophic sea level rises.

In their draft final statement, they note with «grave concern» that world leaders» pledges on the mitigation of greenhouse gases will not save them from catastrophic sea level rise, droughts, and forced migration.

Climatologists target 350 ppm as the uppermost threshold before we see dire consequences, like catastrophic sea level rise.

This is an intriguing and wide - sweeping paper that has put together a multi-disciplinary team to examine the possibility of near term catastrophic sea level rise....

This dangerous warming is, of course, causing the ice sheets to melt, unleashing catastrophic sea level rise, and thus swamping coastal regions and low - lying islands, as we speak!

Major coastal cities from Tokyo to Venice to New Orleans have already been dealing with the equivalent of catastrophic sea level rise for decades, thanks to land subsidence from the extraction of groundwater or hydrocarbons, but you rarely hear about that.

As regards the catastrophic sea level rise in the Pacific, it became obvious some 20 years ago that results from island tide gauges did not support computer predictions.

It seems that even a bit of siltation or a mound can stop all this catastrophic sea level rise — for centuries!

(12/17/2009) Allowing the climate to rise by just two degrees Celsius — the target most industrialized nations are currently discussing in Copenhagen — may still lead to a catastrophic sea level rise of six to nine meters, according to a new study in Nature.

Over the coming centuries, the melting ice will be enough to cause a catastrophic sea level rise.

However, studies published in 2014 called into question the IPCC's assumptions about the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which, if it were to collapse quickly and completely, would result in catastrophic sea level rise of potentially up to 15 feet.

A leading climate scientist gave an alarming warning that limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius may not prevent a catastrophic sea level rise that would leave major coastal cities from Miami to Mumbai at risk of drowning.