Sentences with phrase «extreme coastal floods»

«Sea level rise from global warming has already doubled the risk of extreme coastal floods across the lower 48 states,» author Ben Strauss said today on a conference call.

«The sea - level rise taking place right now is quickly making extreme coastal floods more common, increasing risk for millions of people where they live and work,» Ben Strauss, co-author of both studies and researcher at Climate Central, said in a statement.

Between 2012 and 2014, Baranes and Woodruff collected sediment cores from lakes, looking for marine sand layers washed onshore by past extreme coastal floods.

Not exact matches

The council also passed legislation Wednesday that will force the city to study the impacts of extreme weather, including severe heat, rain storms and coastal flooding, to help better prepare the city for the next Hurricane Irene.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

«If one lives in Canada's north or in our coastal communities, or really in any community that is subject to extreme weather conditions, and the resulting floods, droughts, and wildfires, the effects of climate change itself, can not be denied.

Storm surge is the abnormal rise of water generated by a storm, causing extreme flooding in coastal areas.

«We're interested in getting a good quantitative understanding of the extreme water levels we can expect from coastal flooding.»

More than 150 million people worldwide are at risk from rising sea levels and extreme storms that cause coastal flooding.

The latest assessment also did not account for the effects of extreme weather except for coastal flooding due to sea - level rise and storm surge.

The thing about climate change: it doesn't hit home, until it (literally) hits home — extreme storms, droughts, flash floods and accelerating sea level rise triggering more frequent coastal flooding.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

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.

About 3.7 million Americans live within just a few feet of the sea at high tide, putting them at even more extreme risk for coastal flooding.

When it comes to extreme weather, we always take the opportunity to point back to the last definitive international scientific report on extreme weather and climate change, which found strong historic links for heat waves, coastal flooding and changes in precipitation along with weaker links for tornadoes and hurricanes.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

A Global Climate Model (GCM) can provide reliable prediction information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

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Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest - ever bills for the U.S.. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane damage and heavy rainfall.

Limits must be strict enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming that are already being felt in extreme weather events, droughts, floods, melting glaciers and polar ice caps and rising sea levels that threaten to swamp coastal communities and small island states.

«We conclude that, if projections for an increasing frequency of extreme El Niño and La Niña events over the twenty - first century are confirmed, then populated regions on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean basin could be alternately exposed to extreme coastal erosion and flooding, independent of sea - level rise,» the authors write.

Global climate models (ESMs or GCMs) can provide climate information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km (with grid resolution of 100's of km) covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

For millennia El Nino cycles have caused these natural extreme swings that alternate between droughts and floods and episodic coastal erosion.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

From increasingly frequent and severe types of extreme events that include heatwaves, coastal flooding and heavier downpours, the costs of climate change are becoming tangible throughout the country.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

Both also depend on aging infrastructure that has already been stressed by climate hazards including heat waves, as well as coastal and riverine flooding due to a combination of sea level rise, storm surge, and extreme precipitation events.

Sea level rise will increase the frequency and extent of extreme flooding associated with coastal storms, such as hurricanes.

These risks include heat stress, extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, landslides, air pollution, drought, and water scarcity.

For example, extreme transient sea - level rise due to tropical or extratropical storm surge can cause abrupt increases of flood risk (Nicholls et al., 2007), putting many coastal regions at risk for loss of human life before gradual sea - level rise inundates the region.

Strong scientific evidence shows that global warming is increasing certain types of extreme weather events, including heat waves, coastal flooding, extreme precipitation events, and more severe droughts.

In continental fluvial and coastal sections, changes in siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from monsoon - like seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical storms.

Strong scientific evidence links climate change with increasing heat waves, coastal flooding, and other extreme weather events.

When it comes to heat waves and coastal flooding, the scientific evidence is clear: Human - caused climate change is increasing these extreme weather events.

Our electricity system is vulnerable to extreme weather events, including coastal flooding, extreme heat, drought, and wildfires — all of which are likely to increase in the years ahead.

The region will be affected by rising temperatures, water security, sea - level rises, storm surges, extreme weather events, inland and coastal flooding, and food security issues.

Reinstate federal flood - protection standards that require all federally funded infrastructure projects to meet a higher margin of safety for future sea - level rise and flooding from coastal storms and extreme weather events.