Sentences with phrase «coastal damage»

But there is no agreement on a plan that would include precautions to prevent coastal damage — or who will pay for the extra work this would entail.

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.

Hurricanes are causing coastal damage as they come onshore at greater and greater velocities.

Webster Supervisor Ron Nesbitt says local governments are left to pick up the costs of coastal damage.

The findings suggest that the trees shield the coastline (pdf) by reducing the height and energy of ocean waves and offer hard evidence that deforestation could result in increased coastal damage from storms.

[1] Indeed, California is not alone in experiencing the growing impacts of climate change: evidence that climate change is influencing extreme hydrologic events all over the world is now pouring in, from heat waves to coastal damages during extreme tides and storms, flooding from more intense precipitation events, drastic loss of Arctic ice, and droughts.

Flood damage, too, could exceed $ 10bn a year by 2080, while the number of people affected by droughts could increase sevenfold, and coastal damage from sea level rise could treble.

The quake caused a stir in Tonga, but it's not clear yet whether any resulting waves caused coastal damage or injuries.

What came as a shock to so many was that it wasn't all coastal damage.

As per the president's remarks while he was in Venice, La. to witness efforts to mitigate the coastal damage from the BP oil spil... unlike Gov. David Paterson, Obama made no mention of terrorism:

The number of people affected by droughts could increase by a factor of seven and coastal damage, due to sea - level rise, could more than triple.

What really matters is the coastal damage, with millions of square kilometres threatened.