Sentences with phrase «flood by century»

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Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

As Hamburger puts it, «by the end of the [19th] century, this flood of desires — even merely the need for a smoke — carried increasing numbers of Americans toward the separation of religion, especially a separation of church and state.»

«The early 20th century got a lot of flooding,» but only 25 percent of the increase in flood magnitude over the past century can be explained by those climate patterns, Munoz says.

Over the last 500 years, the highest water flow during a century flood has increased by 20 percent (red line).

By the end of this century, Italy's City of Water could be facing dangerously high tides almost every day, and costly flood barriers now being built might not be able to protect it.

The pipes, sewers and basements that lie beneath the coastal city of New Haven, Conn., could be flooded by rising groundwater by the end of the century, according to a preliminary study from Yale University and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The flooded area totaled three square miles in 12 different segments of the park, and salt water had poured into four freshwater ponds, or «tanks» (man - made water reservoirs up to several miles wide that were created by Sri Lankan kings in the 12th century).

Sea levels could rise more than a meter by the end of the century, flooding large parts of Florida.

But those rulers may have had more to blame than just bad luck: According to a new study, volcanic eruptions around the ancient world likely suppressed the Nile's annual floods — critical for agriculture — by altering rainfall upriver in the Ethiopian highlands several times from the third to first centuries B.C.E..

By A.D. 20 - 21, the flood - torn region had become the epicenter of a popular rebellion, one that soon would spell the end of the Western Han Dynasty's five - century reign of power.

Flooding, heat and water pollution among concerns The report identifies three key areas of concern in the Bay Area by the end of the century.

Melting ice sheets could raise sea levels high enough to flood coastal areas around the globe by the end of the century, according to scientists gathering in Denmark today for a three - day climate - change conference.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Instead of facing down a flood from God, they're largely threatened by conditions brought on by centuries of human expansion, exploitation and pollution.

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In a new installation, Room for Margins (1998), she arranged usually unseen margins and canvas liners from work by the 19th century British painter J.M.W Turner, which were damaged during the London floods of 1928.

The use of pins serves to represent the dispersion of the waterways, particularly evident in the evocative form of Pin River Sandy, representing the area flooded by Hurricane Sandy, and Crossing Midtown, which illustrates the path of two creeks that spanned what is now midtown Manhattan at the founding of New Amsterdam in the seventeenth century.

The precise magnitude of the anthropogenic contribution remains uncertain, but in nine out of ten cases our model results indicate that twentieth - century anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increased the risk of floods occurring in England and Wales in autumn 2000 by more than 20 %, and in two out of three cases by more than 90 %.

By the end of this century, coastal flooding would, under this scenario, threaten regions that currently are home to approximately 480,000 people and $ 100 billion worth of property.

I would go so far, in light of the efforts of the current administration, the EPA, and of late even NASA to «manage» findings by climate scientists that someone intended for the press release from the USGS Newsroom to keep the public in the dark regarding this point as they proclaimed: «Century of Data Shows Intensification of Water Cycle but No Increase in Storms or Floods»

Although relatively modest in comparison, projected SLR of up to 1.2 m this century has been estimated to threaten up to 4.6 % of the global population and 9.3 % of annual global gross domestic product with annual flooding by 2100 in the absence of adaptive measures (12).

This claim is not only absurd, but unethical and cruel in its disregard for the world's poorest people who are threatened in this century and next by sea - level rise, storm surges, disappearing glaciers, flooding, drought, and mass species extinctions.

If normal weather patterns held, we should have less than a 50 - percent chance of seeing another flood like it by 2100, but most of the simulations had two or more such floods this century.

Even low - end projections anticipate that historical 100 - year coastal floods will happen as often as every 22 years by the end of the century.

The United Nations are predicting a full one metre rise in ocean levels due to climate change by the end of this century, with disastrous implications for future floods, inundation of fertile land, and storm surges.

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

Noting that the current atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher than it's been in the past 650,000 years, the IPCC predicts that human - induced climate change could spell extinction for 20 to 30 percent of the world's species by the end of this century, cause increasingly destructive weather patterns, and flood coastal cities.

By the late 21st century, climate models project that sea level will rise up to a foot higher than the global average along the northeast US coastline, resulting in a dramatic increase in regional coastal flood risk.

The 2016 study concluded that about 30 percent of Imperial Beach will be directly impacted by coastal flooding by the end of the century with a sea level rise of 6.5 feet.

Stunning NOAA map of Tennessee's 1000 - year deluge 15 sites had rainfall exceeding maximum associated with Hurricane Katrina landfall May 26, 2010 http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/26/nashville-katrina-tennessee-superstorm-1000-year-flood/ In Iowa we had the flood of the century in 1993 followed by another flood of the century fifteen years later in 2008.

Sea - level rises could send floods driven by storm surges over London's Thames Barrier regularly by the end of the century, if nothing is done to bolster the UK's flood defences, scientists warned on Tuesday.

Worldwide there will likely be an average increase in the maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) of 2 to 11 %.6 Because of the way extremes respond to changes such as these, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes are expected to nearly double in number by the end of the century.7 The rate of rainfall associated with tropical cyclones, an important factor in flooding, is expected to increase approximately 20 % within 100 km of the center of these storms.8

But changes in risk from major weather hazards (storms and floods) in the short term, up to the middle of the 21st century, are likely to be dominated by changes in exposure and vulnerability.

According to a study published this year by Climate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the current rate.

And though its reactors are elevated by another 20 feet of concrete buttressing, this Century's predicted sea level rise would flood its grounds and surrounding roadways — likely rendering it inoperable.

The Bay Area's waterfront building frenzy includes at least $ 21B in housing and commercial construction in low - lying areas that climate scientists say could flood by the end of the century.

By the end of this century, increased rates of sea - level rise (SLR) could cause pcmanent inundation of portions of low - lying coastal cities, repeated flooding episodes, and more severe beach erosion.

3 April: ABC Rural: Flint Duxfield: Floods set to increase as climate changes «for good» The latest report by the Climate Commission warns extreme flood events like those experienced in Queensland this year could become an annual occurrence later this century.

The MacKenzie River region, which supports one of the world's last major wild rivers, has warmed by 3.1 ° F (1.7 ° C) over the past century.2, 3 This warming has endangered the long - term stability of much of the permafrost — the frozen mix of rock, soil, and ice that underlies and surrounds the river basin3, 3 — raising the risk of erosion, flooding, landslides, and other significant changes to the landscape.2, 3,4,5,6

For nearly a century, the country's primary defense against flood risk has been the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is intended to reduce the impact of flooding on private and public structures by providing affordable insurance to property owners.

Scientists say Earth is on course for roughly twice this amount by the end of the century — a recipe for worse droughts, floods, storms and rising seas.

Sea - level rise of nearly 1 metre by the end of the century (the upper estimate of the IPCC), due mainly to thermal expansion of the oceans, would see Bangladesh lose 14 per cent of its entire land area, causing a flood of environmental refugees.

Many climatologists are currently predicting severe damage from flooding by the year 2100, but this new research shows nuisance flooding could fuel severe problems by the middle of the century.

The average temperature has increased by 1 °C, and there have already there have been a number of extreme events this century — two major droughts, and one major flood.

This work relies on the new flood risk assessment framework proposed by Alfieri et al. (2015b) to illustrate the benefits of adaptation in reducing expected damages and population affected by river floods in Europe under 4 °C global warming by the end of the century.

«Computer models by Hansen and others suggest that by the middle of the next century earth's average temperature may rise 4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit, possibly altering storm patterns, making crops fail, and raising sea levels to flood low - lying coastal areas.»

Nearly 4 million Americans, encompassing a total area larger than the state of Maryland, could be underwater by the end of the century, suggest two new studies predicting the risk of flooding due to sea - level rise in the United States.

By then comparing the results of these Industrial and Non-industrial simulated climates, and recording the occurrence of floods like that of Autumn 2000 in each of them, the change in the frequency of occurrence (or «risk») of such a flood was determined, and therefore how much risk is attributable to human - induced emissions of greenhouse gases over the last century.

By the end of the century, Venice — Italy's City of Water — could face daily floods, and according to a new study, the costly and controversial flood barriers now being built might not be able to protect it.

The results, published in the journal Earth's Future, point to two possible pathways: 1) a relatively steady but substantial rise in sea levels even if we sharply reduce global emissions, flooding 100 million people's homes worldwide by the end of the century, and 2) a wild - card world that could jeopardize civilization itself if fossil fuels continue to dominate.