Sentences with phrase «greater future sea level»

As such, they are frequently taken as harbingers of greater future sea level rise to come.

Not exact matches

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

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.

The authors highlight this with the case of future sea level, as larger uncertainty in sea level rise requires greater precautionary action to manage flood risk.

No single entity is capable of addressing the vast needs for improved climate services in these nations: for everything from projections of future sea - level rise that help planners identify places to build and develop that are out of harm's way, to maps that overlay population, infrastructure, and climate data to help decision makers target resources to areas of greatest vulnerability.

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.

Past rates of change, if used wisely, provide potential constraints of future projections, together with the many semi-empirical approaches to project future sea - level rise (e.g. Rahmstorf, 2007) which are typically greater in magnitude than those from process based models.

The future changes of sea level and ocean circulation therefore pose a great and imminent threat to this heavily populated area.»

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.

I have three immediate responses: Satisfaction in the great success of the collaboration, concern that this slightly increases worries about future sea - level rise from human - caused warming, but technical questions that may leave us more - or-less where we were before on the biggest picture.

The impact of the melting of the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica is the biggest unknown in projections of future sea - level rise.

Global warming has been stuck in neutral for more than a decade and a half, scientists are increasingly suggesting that future climate change projections are overblown, and now, arguably the greatest threat from global warming — a large and rapid sea level rise (SLR)-- has been shown overly lurid (SOL; what did you think I meant?).

Leading scientists have issued urgent warnings that future warming must be limited to no more than 1 ° C (1.8 ° F) above year 2000 levels, in order to avoid triggering climate feedbacks leading to even greater warming, and therefore catastrophic impacts such as 20 feet of sea level rise and extinction of a third of the world's species.

«Although the future sea - level contribution in our model is greater than previously thought, it is based on credible mechanisms and is consistent with geologic evidence of past sea - level rise,» Dr Pollard says.

Hovering at 8,750 feet above sea level, Telluride sits in a box canyon surrounded by stunning thirteen - and fourteen - thousand - foot mountains — the perfect backdrop for the future owners of this massive «Great Space.»