Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries:
coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.
Not exact matches
«We conclude that
coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like
inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere,
from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.
In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise,
coastal cities are vulnerable to damage
from storm surge, wave action, and / or
inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.
One of the biggest potential impacts on human affairs
from sustained warming is
coastal inundation as warming seas swell and fill with water flowing
from melting ice sheets.
Below you'll hear
from scientists with significant concerns about keystone sections of the paper — on the evidence for «superstorms» in the last warm interval between ice ages, the Eemian, and on the pace at which seas could rise and the imminence of any substantial uptick in the rate of
coastal inundation.
Evidence
from Oregon, one of the states most vulnerable to great earthquakes, points out the challenge of moving
from such logic, on paper, to investments in vulnerable schools or
coastal communities in the
inundation zone for the tsunami that will accompany the next great thrust of the Cascadia fault off the Northwest Coast.
At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future
coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities
from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.
Coastal communities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the risk of damage
from coastal inundation.
This will further increase the risk of
coastal inundations as sea levels gradually rise stemming
from warming oceans and melting ice caps.
For many regions, an important focus of
coastal use planning is to use the coast as a natural system to buffer
coastal communities
from inundation, working with nature rather than against it, as in the Netherlands.
Permanent
inundation from sea level rise remains on the horizon, but storm surges and
coastal flooding are becoming more frequent today.
«This includes record numbers and record intensity of hurricanes and typhoons, record widespread heavy rains and flooding — think Houston, Louisiana, the Carolinas (Hurricane Matthew) and now California — record drought, heatwaves and wild fires, and increasing
inundations in
coastal regions
from rising sea level.»
record drought, heatwaves and wild fires, and increasing
inundations in
coastal regions
from rising sea level.
The primary environmental objective of a tax on carbon is to set a price that reflects the «real» costs such emissions impose — accounting for the damages that are expected to arise
from global warming, including effects on agricultural productivity and human health,
coastal inundation, and other changes.