Sentences with phrase «coastal city of the world»

Lovelock predicts that unless bold action is taken today to limit global warming, «intolerable and lethal heatwaves» and rising sea levels that could «threaten every coastal city of the world» will occur.

Scientists like Mann fan the flames with statements like these: «We're talking about literally giving up on our coastal cities of the world and moving inland.»

Not exact matches

Throw into the mix the proximity of so many major cities to the coast and it's no surprise that climate change - related flooding is estimated to cost the world's 136 largest coastal cities US$ 52billion per year by 2050.

[246][248] Tourism Landmarks, National Border, Region and Terrestrial plain of the 4th Republic of Ghana Coastal Plain Accra, Apam, Cape Coast, Elmina, Kakum National Park, Kokrobite, Nzulezo, Sekondi - Takoradi, Ada Foah The Gulf of Guinea coastal plain with the seat of government and capital city, several castles and forts and the best preserved rainforest in Ghana Ashanti - Kwahu Koforidua, Kumasi, Obuasi, Sunyani Forested hills and the ancient Kingdom of Ashanti Volta Basin Tamale massive and world's largest Lake Volta, the river system that feeds it and Ghana eastern border crossing Northern Plains Wa, Bolgatanga, Mole National Park Savanna plains and north Ghana trade route and border crossing

Some of the most populous cities in the world including Mumbai, Calcutta, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Guangzhou are heavily exposed to coastal flooding.

Known as the world's underwater cities, coral reefs provide hundreds of millions of people with food, income and coastal protection.

«It is a slightly unexpected scale and location for this water, and it's good news in many ways, especially because it's accessible to many of the world's growing coastal cities,» said paper co-author Michael Edmunds, a professor at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment in the United Kingdom.

A 2008 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development examined the risk of exposure to coastal flooding caused by storm surge for 136 port cities around the world.

Forty percent of the world's 7.6 billion people live in coastal cities and towns.

Antarctica's Whillans Ice Stream helps researchers predict climate change — and the fate of coastal cities around the world.

You might call this place ground zero in the effort to predict climate change, sea level rise, and the fate of coastal cities around the world.

In August 2013, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued an analysis of economic damage incurred among the world's largest 136 coastal cities and the damage they will sustain by 2050 under the same conditions.

IT IS a potentially historic move: the coastal Californian counties of Marin and San Mateo, together with the City of Imperial Beach, have each filed a lawsuit against some of the world's largest fossil fuel producers.

But as the world continues to warm, rising sea levels are going to drown many of our coastal cities, along with much farmland.

If we don't act, the world is vulnerable to devastating climate impacts, including flooding of our coastal cities, water shortages, and increased extreme weather.

Dishonored 2 takes your protagonist, Corvo Attano or Emily Kaldwin, to the coastal city of Karnaca where the choices you make will have significant impact on the world.

I think energy and metals will tank later once the rest of the world grasps how bad our recession will be (it will have to hit China; they have 11 - 12 % GDP growth and 7 % inflation, so despite the talk of how the place is booming, I suspect it is concentrated in the coastal cities and not widely shared, since real GDP growth isn't all that robust by emerging economy standards).

On this tour through Mexico's Yucatán, you'll also explore the colonial cities of Valladolid, with its charming streets and interesting churches; Mérida, where you'll stay in a former colonial mansion; and the coastal town of Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with baroque Spanish architecture.

Royalty and world leaders alike are known to have been regular travellers on The Blue Train over the years, whose famous route covers 994 miles between Pretoria in the north and the southern coastal city of Cape Town, a full 27 - hour journey.

Take a short drive along the coast in the morning to the southern coastal city and UNESCO World Heritage Site of Trinidad.

Located in the coastal city of Oxnard, the California Welcome Center Oxnard is just 1 hour northwest of Los Angeles where the world - famous Pacific Coast Highway (Hwy 1) meets Highway 101, with easy access from either the 101 or the PCH.

From the capital city of Melbourne to the high country, mountains, our world - famous coastal drive and some of the best beaches in the country.

What sets Biarritz apart from the hundreds of other beautiful European coastal hot spots is that its beauty and charm are far from skin deep, as the city is steeped in rich culture and historical relevance with particular reference to the surfing world.

You'll also explore Ek» Balam, at the height of its importance from 600 - 900 AD, and Uxmal, one of the Maya's ancient masterpieces and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.On this tour through Mexico's Yucatán, you'll also explore the colonial cities of Valladolid, with its charming streets and interesting churches; Mérida, where you'll stay in a former colonial mansion; and the coastal town of Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with baroque Spanish architecture.

Many of these beaches help make the coastal city of Rio de Janeiro one of the top seaside destinations in the world.

While the coastal areas are attractively familiar, the mountains of Albania reveal Ottoman fortresses, prehistoric dwellings, ancient citadels, the sites of battles both ancient and recent, monasteries, mosques, tombs cut into the rock side, finds from the Illyrian period, theatres from the ancient world and the fascinating city and museum of Apollonia.

Lisbon is fast climbing the rankings of world's most stunning cities, making it a fantastic coastal city break for any couple craving sun, sea and urban buzz.

The hotel offers 5 star luxury in one of the most glamorous coastal cities in the world, for a holiday you will always remember.

Dishonored 2 takes your protagonist, Corvo Attano or Emily Kaldwin, to the coastal city of Karnaca where the choices you make will have significant impact on the world.

Nestled on the coastal islands of Zealand and Amager, Copenhagen — Denmark's capital — isn't just super cool, it's ranked as the happiest city in the world.

Along with being one of the most beautiful coastal cities in the world, San Francisco is widely considered the cultural capital of Northern California, with outstanding museums and exhibition venues dedicated to art, science, design, and history.

Unless we get CO2 back below 275ppm the ice is going to continue to melt and we are going to get +80 metres of rise, and most of the good infrastructure works in coastal cities around the world are merely serving to enhance the dive experience for future tour - boat operators.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

London, England (CNN)-- A possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $ 28 trillion worth of assets in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the insurance industry.

At less than 1 ˚C we are on the way to triggering a multi-metre sea - level rise that will devastate coastal infrastructure, delta peasant - farming communities and some of the world's biggest cities.

Do we want to leave our children a nightmare world of rising oceans, ever - larger wildfires, increasing hurricanes, and coastal cities under water?

The United States has a problem: runaway climate change, which will degrade or damage agriculture, biodiversity, coastal cities, and the social politics of some of the most volatile regions of the world.

Together, they act as a plug holding back enough ice to pour 11 feet of sea - level rise into the world's oceans — an amount that would submerge every coastal city on the planet.

Many of the world's coastal cities will be under water; over 600 million coastal dwellers will be forced to move.

Hansen argues the dramatic sea level rise could put the earth's coastal cities in grave peril while a sudden influx of population from those cities will bring discord and conflict to the rest of the world.

But a new draft study being published this week by a team of 17 leading international climate scientists warns that even 2 degrees of warming is «highly dangerous» and could cause sea level rise of «at least several meters» this century, leaving most of the world's coastal cities uninhabitable.

Scientists expect a warming world to drive further sea - level rise over this century and beyond.3, 10,11 New York City faces increases in coastal flooding, the extent and frequency of storm surge, erosion, property damage, and loss of wetlands.3, 12,13

Noting that the current atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher than it's been in the past 650,000 years, the IPCC predicts that human - induced climate change could spell extinction for 20 to 30 percent of the world's species by the end of this century, cause increasingly destructive weather patterns, and flood coastal cities.

Were Greenland's entire ice sheet to melt, global sea level could rise by a startling 7 meters (23 feet), inundating most of the world's coastal cities.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

It is also that point in which all of the ice in the world melts and we will finally get out of our long running recession as we have to build housing for billions of coastal city dwellers in our new found temperate and tropical paradises.

And I'm worried that if governments keep saying what they're doing is organized at stopping warming at 2 - degrees, then the people who are actually on the front lines of climate change — coastal cities, farmers and so on — are going to think about preparing for a world that's 2 degrees warmer, when in reality the evidence seem to suggest they should be preparing for a world that [has warmed] a lot more than 2 degrees.

Melting of the Greenland ice sheet could ultimately threaten many of the world's major coastal cities because of the sea level rise it would cause globally.

There are many signs that the world is heading into a period of warming --- one that could melt glaciers, flood small islands and coastal cities, threaten some animal species and make crops difficult to grow in previously productive agricultural regions.

The glaciers of West Antarctica are already responsible for the majority of the Antarctic continent's contribution to global sea level rise, and if these glaciers were to completely collapse, sea levels could rise by at least four feet, potentially inundating coastal cities around the world.