Not exact matches
With the rapid pace at which the payment industry is gathering momentum, the
global payment environment will go through a
sea change in near
future.
But the study, published today in Earth's
Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like
global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.
Regarding the
future evolution of Arctic
sea ice, the internationally agreed objective to limit
global warming to two degree Celsius is not sufficient to allow Arctic summer
sea ice to survive.
«If our results are representative, then
sea ice plays a greater role than expected, and we should take this into account in
future global CO2 budgets,» says Dorte Haubjerg Søgaard, PhD Fellow, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk.
«The
future rise in
global mean
sea level probably won't be gradual.
The Pew Environment Group's
Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near
future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral
Sea in 2012.
Our record is also of interest to climate policy developments, because it opens the door to detailed comparisons between past atmospheric CO2 concentrations,
global temperatures, and
sea levels, which has enormous value to long - term
future climate projections.»
The study's findings suggest that
future sea level rise resulting from
global warming will also have these hot spot periods superimposed on top of steadily rising
seas, said study co-author Andrea Dutton, assistant professor in UF's department of geological sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
And while they may not pose the same
global threats as those in Greenland and Antarctica, which hold great potential to affect
global sea levels in the
future, there are still many human communities in their wake that stand to suffer from their loss.
This is reassuring, because if the ice cap did melt completely in the near
future, it would raise
global sea levels by 60 metres.
Co-author Professor Eelco Rohling, from the Australian National University and formerly of the University of Southampton, adds: «By developing a novel method that realistically approximates
future sea level rise, we have been able to add new insight to the debate and show that there is substantial evidence for a significant recent acceleration in the
sea level rise on a
global and regional level.
«Restoring populations of animals to their former bounty could help to recycle phosphorus from the
sea to land, increasing
global stocks of available phosphorus in the
future.»
The impact of these events on historical societal development emphasizes the potential economic and social consequences of a
future rise in
sea levels due to
global climate change, the researchers write in the study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports.
As
global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those
seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter
future, shortly after the next change in the winds.
The results highlight how the interaction between ocean conditions and the bedrock beneath a glacier can influence the frozen mass, helping scientists better predict
future Antarctica ice loss and
global sea level rise.
Deep -
sea oil exploration will probably release
future spills, Solomon says, and
global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).
The finding, which will likely boost estimates of expected
global sea level rise in the
future, appears in the March 16 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.
This suggests that Greenland's contribution to
global sea level rise may be even higher in the
future,» said Bevis, who is also the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Geodynamics and professor of earth sciences at Ohio State.
Global greenhouse gas emissions have already committed the residents of the Maldives to a watery
future: ocean expansion due to warming has raised
sea levels enough to regularly deluge the islands, and melting glaciers will only make matters worse.
The key issue in predicting
future rates of
global sea level rise is to understand and predict how ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will react to a warming climate.
Lack of knowledge about the ice sheets and their behavior is the primary reason that projections of
global sea level rise includes such a wide range of plausible
future conditions.
The ice that is of most concern is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is undergoing unprecedented changes, and is likely the biggest potential player in
future global sea level rise.
,
global transportation infrastructure, the effects of
sea level rise on
sea level toxic waste dumps (there are many) and the posited
future of the further industrialization of China and India, which is to be largely (80 % by some estimates) to be coal powered.
The problem arises because most of this
sea ice will melt in
future global warming scenarios and the warming signal will be taken as the difference between the control [which perhaps has too much
sea - ice] and the
sea - ice free
future.
Exactly how much the average
global sea level will rise in the
future will depend on our greenhouse gas emissions.
This includes MOUs with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC / UNESCO); the International Maritime Organization (IMO); the
Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP); the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the
Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the State Oceanic Administration of the People's Republic of China (SOA); the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT); the Cluster of Excellence on the
Future Ocean at Christian - Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel, Germany; the European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology (EurOcean); the University of Malta; the State Enterprise on Caspian
Sea Issues at the President of Turkmenistan in Turkmenistan; and the High
Seas Alliance among others.
Joughin et al. (2010) applied a numerical ice sheet model to predicting the
future of PIG, their model suggested ongoing loss of ice mass from PIG, with a maximum rate of
global sea level rise of 2.7 cm per century.
Raper, S.C.B., T.M.L. Wigley, and R.A. Warrick, 1996:
Global sea - level rise: past and
future.
For a
future of continued growth in emissions the new results indicate a likely
global average
sea - level rise between 1.1 and 2.1 meters (3.6 to 6.9 feet)-- roughly double the IPCC - consistent estimate.
Our new study, published today in the journal Earth's
Future, finds that — at least from measurements of
global sea level and continental - scale Antarctic ice - sheet changes — scientists won't be able to tell which road the planet is on until the 2060s.
Ongoing measurements of anthropogenic CO2, other gases and hydrographic parameters in these key marginal
seas will provide information on changes in
global oceanic CO2 uptake associated with the predicted increasing atmospheric CO2 and
future global climate change.
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 scien
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 scien
global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scientists.
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.
Contemporary
global mean
sea level rise will continue over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending substantially on
future greenhouse gas emissions.
Items covered How the climate is changing with time laps charts showing the changes in
Sea ice melting Ice sheet melting Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Global temperature change Students will also explore a
future technology on how to reduce the human impact on the environment.
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising
Seas, and the Weather of the
Future.
Hopefully, this will assist
future generations of Maldvians and tourists to continue to enjoy their idyllic moments of peace on the shoreline while this unique country grows its way out of the very real threats of
global warming and
sea level rise.The BioRock Process (mineral accretion) is a revolutionary technology used to grow and preserve marine ecosystems.
«This plan to bring new games timed with their
global release into Xbox Game Pass not only includes announced titles like
Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2 and Crackdown 3 but
future unannounced games from Microsoft Studios including new iterations of our biggest Xbox One exclusive franchises such as Halo, Forza and Gears of War, on the same day they launch.»
Between 1901 and 2010,
global sea levels rose by 0.19 ± 0.02 m, albeit at varying rates and spatial distribution (Church et al. 2013)-- these past values (including their uncertainty) are potentially much smaller than those associated with
future projections.
Future coastal population growth and exposure to
sea - level rise and coastal flooding — A
global assessment.
Many recent studies (e.g. Hansen & Sato) have claimed that
future rise in
global average temperature (GAT) will create a much greater effect on
sea level than IPCC AR4 predicts.
Polar amplication is of
global concern due to the potential effects of
future warming on ice sheet stability and, therefore,
global sea level (see Sections 5.6.1, 5.8.1 and Chapter 13) and carbon cycle feedbacks such as those linked with permafrost melting (see Chapter 6)... The magnitude of polar amplification depends on the relative strength and duration of different climate feedbacks, which determine the transient and equilibrium response to external forcings.
pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine
global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the
future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change
global climate 9 How much will
sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.
Summary for Policymakers Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Observations: Atmosphere and Surface Chapter 3: Observations: Ocean Chapter 4: Observations: Cryosphere Chapter 5: Information from Paleoclimate Archives Chapter 6: Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles Chapter 7: Clouds and Aerosols Chapter 8: Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing Chapter 8 Supplement Chapter 9: Evaluation of Climate Models Chapter 10: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change: from
Global to Regional Chapter 11: Near - term Climate Change: Projections and Predictability Chapter 12: Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility Chapter 13:
Sea Level Change Chapter 14: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for
Future Regional Climate Change Chapter 14 Supplement Technical Summary
-- A new Web site,
Future of Arctic
Sea Ice and
Global Impacts, has been set up by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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?
Time series of
global mean
sea level (deviation from the 1980 - 1999 mean) in the past and as projected for the
future.
Oregon's coast will face more flooding and erosion hazards in the
future from
global sea level rise and extreme weather, including storm surge.
There will be no extensive or disastrous
global sea - level rise in the near
future.
Four degrees of warming could raise
global sea levels by 1 or possibly even 2 meters by 2100 (and would lock in at least a few additional meters over
future centuries).