Sentences with phrase «concomitant rising of sea levels»

The impact is the melting of the glaciers and the concomitant rising of sea levels that could sink swaths of low land areas in the near future, followed by the desertification of countries vulnerable to destructive climate change reactions.

Not exact matches

The rise in CO2 emissions due to the burning of fossil fuels from 1880 through the 1940's was not sufficient to have played a major role in the considerable global temperature rise that took place during that period — so if we want to presume that sea level rise is prompted by global temperature rise (along with concomitant melting of glaciers, etc.) then we can't really attribute very much of the rise in sea levels during that period to CO2.

«suggesting that Arctic warming will continue to greatly exceed the global average over the coming century, with concomitant reductions in terrestrial ice masses and, consequently, an increasing rate of sea level rise.»

This is particularly true with respect to the potential destabilization of the West Antarctic ice sheet and concomitant future sea level rise.