Sentences with phrase «for accelerated sea level rise»

# 4 Hank And what the reason for accelerated sea level rise might be?

CO2 is said to be responsible for global warming that is not occurring, for accelerated sea level rise that is not occurring, for net glacial and sea ice melt that is not occurring, for ocean acidification that is not occurring, and for increasing extreme weather that is not occurring.»

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Stefan Rahmstorf, a German climatologist whose research led scientists to reconsider accelerated sea - level rise, said an embattled report by North Carolina experts, recommending that the state prepare for a 39 - inch rise by 2100, is a reasonable policy when building homes and infrastructure.

The combination of global warming and accelerating sea level rise from Greenland could be the trigger for catastrophic collapse in the WAIS (see, for instance, here).

Professor Stefan Ramstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said: «Based on past experience, I expect that sea level rise will accelerate as the planet gets hotter.»

There is no evidence for accelerated sea - level rise.

I followed Titus's sea level links for New Zealand and sea level rise is certainly not accelerating there.

«This uncertainty is illustrated by Pollard et al. (2015), who found that addition of hydro - fracturing and cliff failure into their ice sheet model increased simulated sea level rise from 2 m to 17 m, in response to only 2 °C ocean warming and accelerated the time for substantial change from several centuries to several decades.»

Torsten Käll, what you are missing is that the slope of the curve for sea level rise over the last century was concave, meaning sea level rise accelerated.

From reading the first few paragraphs of this, I was inclined to conclude that an accelerating sea level rise from the previous century could be gradual enough to allow for a natural adaptation to occur.

And in a world of accelerating sea level rise and climate change, in which farmland is being degraded and turned to desert, in which ever more land is set aside for carbon storage in the form of forest, and in which the strains of survival increase social divisions and social conflict, there is a new challenge: where will the 2bn climate refugees find new homes?

Judith Curry conclusions «[C1] It looks to me that the evidence for accelerating anthropogenic sea level rise is pretty weak -LSB-...][C2] The practical issues associated with sea level rise are fundamentally local, and local sea level rise can be substantially different from GMSL rise.

This thermal expansion was the main driver of global sea level rise for 75 - 100 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, though its relative contribution has declined as the shrinking of land ice has accelerated.

«Once ice loss through the calving of icebergs goes beyond the passive shelf ice and cuts into the safety band, ice flow towards the ocean will accelerate, which might well entail an elevated contribution to sea - level rise for decades and centuries to come.»

Manacker, please keep in mind that the Wyatt / Curry stadium - wave model is entirely silent (AFAICT) in regard to sea - level rise, for which the * only * credible, in - depth, published, scientific explanation (at present) is CO2 - driven energy imbalance (which predicts that sea - level rise will continue and eventually accelerate).

Small islands, for example, are a paltry source of carbon emissions and yet are disproportionately affected by the consequences of global carbon overload as accelerated sea level rise threatens the very existence of low - lying islands.

Global sea - level rise is accelerating: from 1993 to 2003 the rate was 70 percent higher than the average rate for the twentieth century.

Sea levels have been rising for thousands of years and aren't accelerating.

We want to ask you instead to begin fully embracing a just energy policy for all Virginians that reduces total climate pollution while investing in clean - energy jobs and real investments to protect our people and the military from accelerating sea - level rise and other impacts of global warming.

«No evidence for accelerated sea - level rise» says Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute — December 12, 2008 Excerpt: In an op - ed piece in the December 11 issue of NRC / Handelsblad, Wilco Hazeleger, a senior scientist in the global climate research group at KNMI, writes: «In the past century the sea level has risen twenty centimeters.

Can someone then tell me how you can infer that sea level rise is accelerating due to AGW, when compared with sea level rise for the first half of the 20th century?

The question for climate change experts is not «Is sea level rising» but rather «Is sea level rise accelerating?»

Greenland's ice is largely responsible for the accelerating pace of sea - level rise.

Finally, in the longer term (beyond 2070) there will be the need to plan for more substantial measures if sea level rise accelerates.

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

And more recent estimates of the Antarctic mass balance contribution to sea level rise has the East Antarctica ice sheet gaining mass at a more accelerated pace for 2003 - 2013 than the mere +14 Gt per year identified by Shepherd et al. (2012) for 1992 - 2011.

Obviously, no one disputes that Sea Level has been rising since the last Ice Age - very slowly; and certainly, if Sea Level Rise (SLR) is or will accelerate rapidly, we need to know about it, and plan for it; but, in short, it seems that the General Assembly want's actual proof, instead of using an Ouija Board to predict acceleration of Sea Level Rise.

It will also confirm the accelerated rate of change for impacts such as sea - level rise, the steady retreat of Arctic sea ice and quickened melting of ice sheets and glaciers, as well as offer more detail on scenarios that will shape international negotiations over both short - term and long - term greenhouse gas emissions, including how long «business as usual» can be sustained without dangerous risk.

For example, Overpeck et al. (2006), and Hansen (2007) suggest possibilities which could eventually lead to a nonlinear response from ice sheets — accelerating the current observed sea level rise.

If Trenberth's missing heat existed, hiding away the vast evils of global warming for some future date, then the sea level rise should be greatly accelerating - and no, a single data point isn't going to cut it to prove such a trend.

For details on how scientists know that sea levels are rising AND accelerating, check out these links.

If we looked at only the raw tidal gauge data for Juneau, you would have us believe that sea level was rapidly falling, and probably accelerating in it's drop, yet in reality it's not the sea level that's falling, but rather the land that is accelerating in its rise.

Scientists expect the rate of melting to accelerate, with serious implications for future sea level rise.

And although accelerating glaciers look alarming, consider: 100 Gte / yr (one hundred billion tonnes) of ice - melt anywhere on the globe approximates to 0.28 mm / yr in sea - level rise; so 5 gte / yr for this glacier is 0.014 mm / yr or 1.19 mm by 2100.

Increasing temperature and heavier precipitation events, along with sea level rise, are projected by the report to accelerate in the coming decades, increasing risks for the people, economy and infrastructure of New York City.

Some claim that sea level rise has accelerated due to human - induced global warming, while others claim that it has remained fairly constant for the past 100 years or more.

Global temperatures have failed to rise for 15 plus years, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, tornadoes are at record lows, hurricanes are near record low activity... 2013 may be the year in which man - made global warming fears enter the dustbin of history.»

Satellites measure Antarctica is gaining sea ice but losing land ice at an accelerating rate which has implications for sea level rise.

I never implied that our knowledge of the TOA is the ground for our knowledge that sea level rise accelerated after the industrial revolution.

For New York City, sea - level rise will accelerate the inundation of coastal wetlands, threaten vital infrastructure and water supplies, augment summertime energy demand, and affect public health (Rosenzweig and Solecki, 2001a; Knowlton et al., 2004; Kinney et al., 2006).