Sentences with phrase «current sea level»

We should ensure that any nuclear new - build and waste storage facilities are located at least 80 metres above current sea level.

It also provides critical context for understanding whether current sea levels and rates of sea level rise are unusual.

Current sea level rise is after all not exaggerated, in fact the opposite case is more plausible.

The south polar ice cap may also be badly affected — the West Antarctic ice sheet could lift loose from its bedrock and collapse as warming ocean waters nibble away at its base, much of which is anchored below current sea levels.

Of the approximate 1.25 inches per decade of current sea level rise, researchers estimate that globally, glaciers and ice caps — among which Alaska is making the biggest contribution — are contributing perhaps more than 20 percent of this rate.

Much of the world's population and infrastructure is located near current sea level.»

As the authors of the paper said in the abstract: «The minimal correlation between the contribution of AIS to GMSL by 2050 and that in 2100 and beyond implies current sea level observations can not exclude future extreme outcomes.»

In your own proffered graph, I direct you to the period Jan 1993 to Sept 1995... nice comparable plateau to current sea level changes.

It is possible, therefore, that the effects of recent accelerations in climate change have not yet started to have a significant contribution to or impact on current sea levels; but based on international scientific opinion, it is more a case of when, rather than if.

Do you lawyers sit around and endlessly argue if it is fair to count blacks as only 3/5 of a vote and whether separate but equal facilities are acceptable??? Why do you ask scientists to reargue current sea level rise based on 13 year old data?

However, it turns out that the culprits behind most current sea level rise are much smaller and far more ubiquitous.

Therefore extrapolating current sea level rise and just adding a bit more to it each year over a century is not how he sees things.

Li notes that about two - thirds of the world's cities with over 5 million people each are located in low - lying coastal areas less than 30 feet above current sea level.

There is no excuse for Noonan's use of data that is 12 years out of date to make claims of current sea level rise.

Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, presented new evidence that the West Antarctic ice sheet is beginning to melt, threatening eventually to raise sea levels by 15 feet: 90 per cent of the world's people live near current sea levels.

Given the Green obsessions of the present government, I was fascinated by how much above current sea level they were planning to build it.

In Malé, the capital of the Maldives, more than 120,000 people live just a meter or so above current sea level.

The Yenikapı station sits 65 feet below the surface, while the oldest remains at the site, dating from the Neolithic period, were found more than 20 feet below the current sea level.

In an unusually severe storm nearby Miami Beach would be swept by a wall of water up to 16 feet above the current sea level.

With this added in, New York could be facing storm surges of more than 15 metres above the current sea level by 2300.

The current sea level rise is 1.8 millimeters -LRB-.07 inch) per year.

When local observational data, scientific studies and engineering professionals all agree that current sea level rise is at historical average (albeit showing a statistically insignificant decline) I think we can put off spending on further research until our conditions warrant.

According to Aviso, current sea level rise rates are 24cm / century, and the second derivative of the six year trend is negative — suggesting that 24 cm number will get smaller in the near future.

The point raised about the sea level being 0.5 metre higher has no bearing — New Orleans will be totally evacuated with the current sea level.

Current sea level rise underestimated: Satellites show recent global average sea level rise (3.4 millimeters per year over the past 15 years) to be around 80 percent above past I.P.C.C. predictions.

In the past few hundred years there have also been lower than today, but overall the current sea level is near the lower limit for the current interglacial.

It is close to the current sea level for a reason.

The current Sea Level at Kwajalein (Marshall Islands) is the same as it was when records began in 1946.

Is this period long enough to assess whether the current sea level trend is unusual, and to what extent the decline is caused by humans?

Jerry Mitrovica: Current Sea Level Rise is Anomalous.

New climate research determined that the IPCC climate models prediction of an imminent huge sea level rise, thus flooding coastal regions and producing 50 million climate refugees, was drastically wrong - instead, the current sea level trend is a measly 6 - 9 inches per century... (Ramez Naam denies this)

Sea level rises suggested by the research would impact every area of the globe; it is estimated around 150 million people live within just 3 feet of elevation above current sea levels.

Current sea level rise is about 3 mm / year worldwide.

Originally a grossly simplistic theory asked how much would sea level rise if the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt completely; the total water was then added to current sea level.

Current sea level rise Trends in global average absolute sea level, 1870 — 2008.

Our estimated sea levels have reached +5 to 10 m above the present sea level during recent interglacial periods that were barely warmer than the Holocene, whereas the ice sheet model yields maxima at most approximately 1 m above the current sea level.