Sentences with phrase «foot per century»

Not a foot per century.

That being said, a sea level rise of one foot per century seems high.

The rate of sea level rise has been about a foot per century since the satellite era.

Currently seal level is rising at just over 3 millimeters a year — around a foot per century.

Yeah, my beach house could ravaged by the foot per century sea rise - and it could worse maybe 2 feet or higher.

There is no evidence at all that sea level will increase faster than the current ~ 3mm / year or about a foot per century.

Yet this steady, foot per century rise is translated into catastrophe by the non-deniers.

The current rate of sea level rise is 2.4 mm / year, which is less than one foot per century.

The long - term average rate of sea - level rise in Hampton Roads is about one foot per century, but that pace has accelerated sharply recently, which makes it challenging to gauge future rates of change.

Over all, the pace of sea - level rise from the resulting ice loss doesn't go beyond about 1.5 feet per century, Dr. Pollard said in an interview, a far cry from what was thought possible a couple of decades ago.

Over the last 15,000 years, sea level has risen more than 300 feet, for an average rise of greater than two feet per century.

For the last 160 years at Battery Park, NYC they have risen at the rate of.91 feet per century, with no sign of an increased rate.

Greenland and Antarctica contain enough ice to raise sea levels by 70 meters, so even if they melt at only 5 % per century, that's over 3 meters or 10 feet per century.

Indeed, I was consulting [unintelligible] the other day, who is the world's greatest expert on sea level, and has written several papers on it, and he said he is not expecting it to rise very much more than the eight inches we saw in the last century, and that in itself is only about a fifth of the 4 feet per century which has been the average sea level rise per century over the last 10,000 years, with sea level rising over 400 feet in that time.

Not exact matches

The first was that natural gas prices also fell hard in 2012, hitting a 21st - century low of around $ 2 per thousand cubic feet (MCF) last June.

Hong Kong has the most expensive real estate in the world, with the average single - family home in the Kowloon area priced at $ 3,570.23 per square foot, says a recent survey by Century 21 Canada.

From 2000 - 2014, the river's flows declined to only 81 percent of the 20th - century average, a reduction of about 2.9 million acre - feet of water per year.

An analysis of forest species in six French mountain ranges (the western Alps, northern Pyrenees, Massif Central, western Jura, Vosges and the Corsican range) shows that more than two thirds of them moved at least 60 feet (18.5 meters) higher on the mountainsides per decade during the 20th century.

That study found seas rose 1.6 meters (5 feet) per century «when the global mean temperature was 2 °C higher than today,» a rather mild version of where we are headed in the second half of this century.

Coast Range site that — per the Forest Service hydrologist — lost a foot of topsoil in the past century and how has about 2/3 of an inch remaining.

It was surprisingly fast immediately after retreat of the ice, estimated at 10 m (33 feet) to 12 m (39 feet) per century.

It is still a rapid 1.3 m (4.3 feet) per century.

I keep on wondering how on earth we will be able to accommodate a sealevel rise of 8 inches per century in London when our only daily experience is of a rise 250,000 times faster (14 feet in 6 hours of incoming tide) in the centre of the city.

The slope of this linear segment was just under ten inches, not twenty feet, per century.

Sea levels which rapidly rose 400 feet following the last Ice Age have only risen at a steady rate of four to eight inches per century over the past 150 years.

Sea levels over the past few hundred years have been rising by around 8 inches per century, so the Sea level around New York City will rise by about a foot over the next hundred years, and this has nothing to do with global warming.

Based on this historical record and the fact that the Laurentide melted away under summertime temperatures similar to those expected in Greenland by the end of this century, Carlson and his colleagues forecast glacial melting that contributes somewhere between 2.8 inches (seven centimeters) and 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) of sea level rise per year, or as much as a 4.3 - foot (1.3 - meter) increase by 2100.

The new research suggests the melting could accelerate, thereby raising sea level as fast, or faster, than three feet (about one meter) of sea level rise per century.

It then completely disappeared by 6,800 years ago in two geologically rapid bursts, shedding enough ice to raise sea levels by as much as four feet (1.3 meters) per century, according to research published this week in Nature Geoscience.

A study by Century 21 Canada reveals that the highest price - per - square foot (PPSF) in Canada is in Vancouver West Side ($ 1,201 PPSF), followed by Vancouver Downtown ($ 962.75 PPSF) and Toronto Downtown ($ 818.86 PPSF) as the third most expensive.

Hong Kong has the most expensive real estate in the world, with the average single - family home in the Kowloon area priced at $ 3,570.23 per square foot, says a recent survey by Century 21 Canada.