Sentences with phrase «causes coastal land»

The high specific heat capacity of ocean water causes coastal land to have a milder climate than inland areas.

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When people in Brazil are persuaded by their government to migrate away from the coastal areas to take up farming on a plot of land in Amazonia, they cause great destruction.

Warming oceans and melting land ice have caused oceans to rise about seven inches since 1900, which has also led to more frequent coastal flooding.

Heartland meeging did not see these person, even did not see the catestropic disaster in America, south clifornia drought wildfare, Denver mountine pine become yellow and bear no place to go, maypile tree can not made so much syrup, coastal land crupted, sea level rising let American herios graveyard sank into the water, many and many reality which global warming caused, all these I studied articles last 4 years about global warming.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

Think about feeding a population of 9 billion as formerly productive regions become too hot and dry for large scale agriculture, populations have to relocate, sea level causes very large coastal populations to move inland quicker than new high rise housing can be built (but the land is needed for crops) and so on.

NC - 20 mounted a furious lobbying campaign, including publications from a range of climate change deniers, asserting that the sea level report would raise insurance rates, limit coastal development, and cause land values to decline.

Dr Curry: in the past I had to work on the design basis for coastal structures and we focused on storm surge and potential risks from having more open water (could be a problem in the Arctic), melting permafrost causing land loss, etc..

The focus on emissions reductions as some sort of solution to sea level rise (apart from any determination of cause) is distracting from developing better land use policies and coastal engineering practices.

Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18

Ho added that the enhanced intensification of tropical cyclones over East Asian coastal seas caused by changes in sea surface temperature and wind flows mean that «an individual tropical cyclone could strike East Asia, including the Philippines, with a record - breaking power, for example Haiyan, even though landfall intensity in south - east Asia has not notably changed on average in recent years because of the shifted genesis location; note that Haiyan formed over the eastern Philippine Sea far from land.»

Fishing, a major source of food for the region, will also be affected by rising sea levels, making coastal land unusable, causing fish species to migrate, and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events disrupting agriculture.