Not exact matches
Using a statistical model calibrated to the relationship
between global mean temperature and rates of GSL
change over this time period, we are assessing the human role in historic sea - level rise and identifying human «fingerprints» on
coastal flood events.
According to the latest science, in most cases (outside of extreme heat waves) the connections
between today's extreme weather events and human - driven climate
change range from weak (hurricanes) to nil (tornadoes)-- and the dominant driver of losses in such events is fast - paced development or settlement in places with fundamental climatic or
coastal vulnerability.
The firm link
between rising seas and the rising risk of destructive
coastal flooding was also reflected in an analysis of the
changed odds of Sandy - style inundations.
A) They can produce tropical storms such as hurricanes and typhoons B) They can
change the climate of cold locations to be temperate C) They can cause differences in temperatures
between coastal and inland regions D) All of the above Next >
By 2005, when Hurricane Katrina drew Americans» attention to the connection
between climate
change and
coastal flooding, scientists were getting better at making their case to the public.
In his paper «Unhealthy Exaggeration: The WHO report on climate
change,» Goklany writes: «In the run - up to the UN climate summit in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released, with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and
coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000 additional deaths annually
between 2030 and 2050.
In addition to the ever -
changing shape and depth of the ocean basins and
coastal zone boundaries, one must also bear in mind the «leaky Earth»: There appears to be a continuous exchange of water
between the ocean bottom and the Earth's crust, as Professor Shige Maruyama of Tokyo Institute of Technology has shown.
Coastal ecosystems may show acidification or basification, depending on the balance
between the invasion of
coastal waters by anthropogenic CO2, watershed export of alkalinity, organic matter and CO2, and
changes in the balance
between primary production, respiration and calcification rates in response to
changes in nutrient inputs and losses of ecosystem components.
-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate
change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage,
coastal flooding, and habitat loss).
Interactions
between climate
change and urbanisation: most notably in developing countries, where urbanisation is often focused in vulnerable areas (e.g.,
coastal), especially when mega-cities and rapidly growing mid-sized cities approach possible thresholds of sustainability (very high confidence).