Sentences with phrase «fastest global sea»

The fastest global sea level increase over the past 3,000 years occurred during the 20th century.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

«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.&global rise: Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.&Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.»

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.

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.

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.

Since the 1970s the northern polar region has warmed faster than global averages by a factor or two or more, in a process of «Arctic amplification» which is linked to a drastic reduction in sea ice.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

In the Arctic, sea ice is vanishing, even faster than models of global warming have predicted.

The subsidence is causing local sea levels to rise nearly 100 times faster than the global average.

The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.

The area's low - lying river deltas are disappearing beneath the waves faster than can be explained by global sea level rise.

The climate sensitivity classically defined is the response of global mean temperature to a forcing once all the «fast feedbacks» have occurred (atmospheric temperatures, clouds, water vapour, winds, snow, sea ice etc.), but before any of the «slow» feedbacks have kicked in (ice sheets, vegetation, carbon cycle etc.).

But skyrocketing Arctic temperatures, which are rising twice as fast as the global average, have set off a downward spiral in sea ice levels.

Since the 19th century, sea level has shot up more than 2 millimeters per year on average, far faster than other periods of global temperature change.

While the Alps could lose anything between 75 percent and 90 percent of their glacial ice by the end of the century, Greenland's glaciers — which have the potential to raise global sea levels by up to 20 feet — are expected to melt faster as their exposure to warm ocean water increases.

(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.

Oceans, which have warmed at an increasingly faster rate, account for as much as 50 percent of global sea level rise, according to a new study.

This empirical fast - feedback climate sensitivity allows water vapor, clouds, aerosols, sea ice, and all other fast feedbacks that exist in the real world to respond naturally to global climate change.

First, the rate of global sea - level change in the 20th century (1.4 ± 0.2 mm / yr) was, with 95 % probability, faster than during any century since at least 800 BCE.

Global ice - sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea - ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scienGlobal ice - sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea - ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scienglobal scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scientists.

(And the 800 BCE date is not because the rate of global sea - level rise was probably faster before then, but simply that the reconstruction quality isn't good enough before then to have the same level of confidence.)

The report found that global ice sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea ice is thinning and melting much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast.

For three particular mismatches — sea ice loss rates being much too low in CMIP3, tropical MSU - TMT rising too fast in CMIP5, or the ensemble mean global mean temperatures diverging from HadCRUT4 — it is likely that there are multiple sources of these mismatches across all three categories described above.

The climate sensitivity classically defined is the response of global mean temperature to a forcing once all the «fast feedbacks» have occurred (atmospheric temperatures, clouds, water vapour, winds, snow, sea ice etc.), but before any of the «slow» feedbacks have kicked in (ice sheets, vegetation, carbon cycle etc.).

They contain enough ice to raise global sea level by 4 feet (1.2 meters) and are melting faster than most scientists had expected.

The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.

An enduring conundrum at the heart of the global warming issue / challenge / crisis / emergency is that the dramatic facets that matter most to society — how fast and far seas will rise, how strong hurricanes may get, how many species will vanish — are the least certain.

The basic story of human caused global warming and its coming impacts is still the same: humans are causing it and the future will bring higher sea levels and warmer temperatures, the only questions are: how much and how fast?

Three quarters of global fish populations are caught at faster rates than they can reproduce, according to the Save Our Seas Foundation.

Climate alarm depends on several gloomy assumptions — about how fast emissions will increase, how fast atmospheric concentrations will rise, how much global temperatures will rise, how warming will affect ice sheet dynamics and sea - level rise, how warming will affect weather patterns, how the latter will affect agriculture and other economic activities, and how all climate change impacts will affect public health and welfare.

While sea ice in the Arctic grows and shrinks with the seasons, there is an overall declining trend, as north pole has warmed roughly twice as fast as the global average.

But if you're saying that the effect of global warming on moisture is as if sea level rise initially only affected the wave peaks, and it takes a very long time for the troughs to catch up, and therefore the waves * would * get bigger if the seas rose fast enough, then maybe.

2/29/16 — Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of human - driven global warming, according to new studies reported by the Associated Press.

Qin Dahe, also co-chair of the working group, said: «As the ocean warm, and glaciers and ice sheets reduce, global mean sea level will continue to rise, but at a faster rate than we have experienced over the past 40 years.»

I must point out that this particular section generally holds info up to about 2010 ~ and so doesn't directly mention all the additional weight of scientific info in the last five years [i.e. all the newer «hot year» global records and even faster Ice Melt and sea - level rise].

The gist is that the glaciers in Antartica and Greenland are melting so much faster than previously predicted that the global sea level will rise more than 10 feet in as little as 50 years, rendering many coastal cities uninhabitable.

As you are aware there are major local variations from the global pattern, with coastal land in some regions sinking faster than the average and in other regions being uplifted with respect to mean sea level.

Recent evidence of faster rates of global sea - level rise suggests that these projections may be too low.3, 4,5 Given recent accelerated shrinking of glaciers and ice sheets, scientists now think that a rise of 2.6 feet (80 centimeters) is plausible — and that as much as 6.6 feet (2 meters) is possible though less likely.16

Arctic sea ice has declined at a rate significantly faster than global climate models have predicted.

Again it is the 30s and 40s that experienced both the greatest retreat of glaciers and the fastest rise in global sea level.

Furthermore, the Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification, and stimulated by the combined increasing Arctic temperatures and rapid loss of sea ice in all seasons along with declining snow cover in the spring and early summer.

Yet we know the land around then Arctic is warming faster than the global average so it seems unreasonable to suggest that the ocean isn't, Satellite temperature measurements up to 82.5 N support this as does the decline of Arctic sea ice here, here & here.

According to AMEG, here's how climate change in the Arctic has changed weather patterns: Over the past three decades, snow cover has been reduced by 17 - 18 % per decade and sea ice is declining fast because of human - induced global warming.

Most experts agree the Maldives have plenty to worry about: In the worst - case scenario, if global sea levels rise higher and faster than expected, the islands may indeed be swallowed up.