Sentences with phrase «faster seas rise»

The faster that ice flows, the faster seas rise.

Coral reef clue to fast sea rise http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/feb/24/australia.environment

The authors» cross-cutting vision of a new mechanism for faster sea rise — along with the novel model runs flooding the Atlantic and Southern Ocean with fresh water and the detailed assembly of supporting evidence — are all what edge - pushing science does.

Joe Romm writes: Alarming IPCC Prognosis: 9 °F Warming For U.S., Faster Sea Rise, More Extreme Weather, Permafrost Collapse.

Not exact matches

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

Sea levels in Japan will rise 10 to 20 % faster than the global average.

These areas have shallow water, which means sea level can rise faster and water can reach further inland making the flooding worse.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

Sea levels are not rising faster than their usual steady tiny pace.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.

«We're making progress, but we still don't know exactly when these processes might kick in, and how fast sea level might rise if they do.

Some previous decades displayed similarly fast rates, and longer satellite records will be needed to determine unambiguously whether sea - level rise is accelerating.

Sea levels are already rising faster than forecast by the IPCC.

«However, our findings show that sea - level rise could be considerably faster than anything yet observed, and because of this situation, coastal communities need to be prepared for potential inundation.»

That amount — roughly 10 % of the total released annually by human activity — could rise if global warming heats the sea and spawns storms with faster winds, he notes.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

«When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,» explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural Hazards and the Earth System.

Models suggest that rising sea levels will shift water towards the poles, drawing mass in closer to the Earth's axis and making it spin faster.

If sea level rises too fast, it will drown the reef in place, but if the rate is slightly slower, the reef can adopt a strategy called backstepping.

But everyone agrees that sea levels will rise, and every time they update estimates for the size and speed of that rise, they predict it happening faster and higher.

Scientists need to know how fast the ice shelves are disintegrating and what is causing the demise so that they can better estimate future sea - level rise.

As glaciers collapse toward the sea, scientists struggle to figure out how fast the southern continent is melting and what that means for sea - level rise

Scientists need to better understand why and how fast the ice shelves are disintegrating so that they can better estimate future sea - level rise.

Since there are no potential restabilising points further upstream to stop any retreat from extending deep into the West Antarctic hinterland, this could cause sea - levels to rise faster than previously projected.»

He checked local tidal gauges, revealing that seas in the region were rising nearly 10 times faster than the long - term rate recorded in that region.

Less than two weeks after the state's senate passed a climate science - squelching bill, research shows that sea level along the coast between N.C. and Massachusetts is rising faster than anywhere on Earth

At the same time, rising sea levels due to climate change increasingly threaten low - lying coastal communities with inundation and beach erosion — and stressed corals may not be able to grow vertically fast enough to match the pace of sea level rise.

«Regional sea - level scenarios: Helping US Northeast plan for faster - than - global rise: Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.»

Rising sea levels and human activities are fast creating a «worst case scenario» for Native Americans of the Mississippi Delta who stand to lose not just their homes, but their irreplaceable heritage, to climate change.

Bangladeshis have watched high tides rise 10 times faster than the global average, and sea levels there could increase as much as 13 feet by 2100.

Sea level rise looks likely to come faster — and be worse — than even scientists anticipated.

Looking at sea level rise, water would rise 37 inches in the moderate warming scenario and 48 inches in the faster model.

Smaller, dispersed droplets are less threatening for two reasons: they present more surface area to the water, so ocean bacteria can degrade the oil faster; plus, the small droplets are much slower to rise to the surface, keeping the oil at sea instead of in coastal wetlands and giving the bacteria more time to do their magic.

In 2007 U.S. Geological Survey scientists analyzing mangrove roots and soil up to 8,000 years old found that during periods of rising sea level, the roots grow faster and bolster the soil, which helps hoist the tree upward.

Mud cores pulled from marshes in the city show that the sea level is already rising faster there than at any time in the past 1,500 years, according to research published in the Holocene Journal in January.

Mud cores show that sea level rise is happening in the region faster than at any other time over the past 1,500 years.

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

The subsidence means these areas are sinking even faster than sea level is rising because of global warming: currently 3 mm per year and accelerating.

He says previous predictive models of Greenland's ice loss did not adequately take into account the faster movement of its southern glaciers, which is accelerating the amount of ice entering the ocean: «Greenland is probably going to contribute more to sea level rise, and faster than predicted by these models.»

In fact, sea levels are rising faster than ever.

«Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted by current models,» said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studied the glacial flow in a paper in Science last year.

It's important for climate scientists to understand why sea levels, which have been steadily rising, might periodically fall, or rise at faster rates, said Fasullo.

Many researchers think this is unrealistic and that the rate of ice loss will accelerate, which means that sea level could rise much faster than predicted.

When the planet's big ice sheets collapsed at the end of the last ice age, their melting caused global sea levels to rise as much as 100 meters in roughly 10,000 years, which is fast in geological time, Mann noted.

A new study suggests that sea levels aren't just rising; they're gaining ground faster than ever.

The land is rising faster than the sea is rising.

Of particular interest to the researchers is a projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that future temperatures on the planet will rise faster at high altitudes than they will at sea level.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.