Sentences with phrase «future coastal floods»

Announcement on AER - led research to provide a more comprehensive view of future coastal floods.

AER led the development of an innovative, broadly applicable methodology for analyzing future coastal floods.

Not exact matches

Tidal lagoons alone could provide up to 10 % of our future electricity needs, as well as further benefits of flood protection and regeneration of coastal areas.

In addition to permanently submerging coastal land, sea - level rise will make the flood damage from hurricanes and nor'easter s worse in the future, he said.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

«Unless we take different protection measures, 5 million people will be exposed to coastal flooding on an annual basis,» said Michalis Vousdoukas, a coastal oceanographer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the lead author of the new study published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

The results show that human - caused sea level rise is not just a future problem, it is driving most coastal flooding in the U.S. today.

These results show that human - caused sea level rise is not just a future problem, it is driving most coastal flooding in the U.S. today.

probabilistically projecting future changes in sea levels and their implications for changing coastal flood risk, and translating those projected changes into actionable information for coastal adaptation; and

It may seem strange, but there's a real chance that understanding these seals could help coastal communities prepare for future floods.

Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea - level rise and coastal flooding — A global assessment.

Flood exposure is increasing in coastal cities owing to growing populations and assets, the changing climate, and subsidence Here we provide a quantification of present and future flood losses in the 136 largest coastal cities.

The bottom line, of course, is that coastal communities in many developing countries, from flood - prone agricultural delta lands to crowding cities, face a very soggy future.

However, the numbers reported can not be directly translated to changes in flood frequencies, because whether or not flooding occurs strongly depends on the presence of coastal defenses and future adaptation efforts.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

But all three also point to the same bleak conclusion: human impacts on the atmosphere promise only the choice between a dangerous future, and a catastrophic one, as the planetary thermometer rises, glaciers and icecaps melt, the oceans become more acidic and more likely to flood coastal communities, hurricanes and typhoons become more intense and destructive, heatwaves become more lethal and droughts become more devastating.

The Plan, led by San Francisco Planning and San Francisco Public Works, defines an overarching vision and set of objectives for future sea level rise and coastal flooding planning and mitigation in San Francisco.

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Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18

To bring you up to speed here, Hunter et al had written some research in the journal Ocean Engineering discussing how high coastal infrastructure should be built in the future to avoid increasing the risk of flooding.

What's more, sea levels are rising, elevating storm surge and increasing the amount of coastal flooding — and the amount of electricity infrastructure at risk — when future storms arrive.

Sea level rise is not just a concern for the future, it is already heightening coastal flood risks worldwide.

Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report of 2001, a hype regarding the future of Himalayan glaciers, flooding of Indo - Gangetic plains and coastal areas and drying of glacially fed rivers has been created.

Thus, through the foreseeable future (very optimistically 2085), other factors will continue to outweigh climate change with respect to human welfare as characterized by (a) mortality for hunger, malaria and coastal flooding, and (b) population at risk for waters stress.

«To effectively prepare for future hurricanes, we need to know what coastal cities will be facing in the coming decades, but past models have not accounted for all of the significant dynamic factors involved in predicting surge floods,» says Lin.

Jochen Hinkel from the Global Climate Forum in Berlin and colleagues have compiled, for the first time, global simulation results on future flood damage to buildings and infrastructure on the world's coastal flood plains.

Tidal flooding may worsen to the point of rendering some sections of cities in coastal areas unusable in the not - so - distant future, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a recent report.

A recent report by NOAA describes a future where coastal flooding will be a weekly event in some coastal parts of the country.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and habitat loss).

Reinstate federal flood - protection standards that require all federally funded infrastructure projects to meet a higher margin of safety for future sea - level rise and flooding from coastal storms and extreme weather events.