Sentences with phrase «if seas rise»

Thus, if the seas rise around them, heatwaves become more prevalent, or malaria, diarrheal disease and hunger spread, they will undertake adaptation measures to protect themselves and reduce, if not eliminate, the adverse consequences.

If the seas rise substantially, Georgetown goes.

But if you're saying that the effect of global warming on moisture is as if sea level rise initially only affected the wave peaks, and it takes a very long time for the troughs to catch up, and therefore the waves * would * get bigger if the seas rose fast enough, then maybe.

«If the sea rises high enough, whole island nations could be washed away,» writes the reviewer.

Not exact matches

If, say, you have children and you want regulation to protect them from the rising sea levels predicted to submerge billions of homes, wars over resources, and so on, you have to realize that however much we call politicians leaders, in democracies they follow the people.

For example, an underground hideout won't do you any good if the trouble is rising sea levels.

Research group Climate Central has created a plug - in for Google Earth that illustrates how catastrophic an «extreme» sea - level rise scenario would be if the flooding happened now, based on projections in a 2017 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).

But when you compare it to the 7.3 metres (24 feet) that global sea levels are predicted to rise if the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt away all at once... well, it puts things into perspective.

«If you're trying to detect change in something, you need long and continuous uninterrupted records of things like the sea ice or sea level rise or Greenland's ice sheet,» Shepherd said.

«We're well beyond asking IF sea level will rise,» was his answer.

If sea levels were to rise 6 feet, 1.9 million homes, or $ 916 billion worth of U.S. residential real estate, could be lost, according to a new report from Zillow.

Smart brand leaders know that social media can help them differentiate and rise above the sea of status quo and leap frog their competition if implemented correctly and with goals that help improve user and customer experience.

Because even if the predictions don't turn out to be correct — if hurricanes don't grow larger and carry more rain — if there's sea level rise due to climate change, these storms become more devastating.

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Each time I'm on a plane that rises above the clouds at sunrise, I think of Psalm 139 — «If I rise on the wings of the dawn, or settle on the far side of the sea... even there your hand will guide me» — and I am grateful for the gift of these lovely words.

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Even if you ignore the ridiculous expense necessary to build dikes around the whole city, there's no plausible way at this point to prevent rising seas from penetrating the porous limestone underneath the city and infiltrating its fresh water supply.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

«If it had fallen elsewhere not as snow but as rain, it would have contributed to sea level rise,» says Thomas.

If this Antarctic instability occurs, the future risk to New York City is dominated by sea level rise.

If sea - level rise remains small, then changes in storm surge are the most important concern for future coastal risk to New York City.

To forecast sea level rise, a flotilla of robot subs must map the unseen bottom of a melting ice shelf — if they are not sunk by it

«If we end up in a world with 2 or 2.5 meters (6.6 to 8 feet) of global sea level rise in 2100, that's a lot to adapt to,» Kopp added.

That's not happening now but it may if everyone on the Marshalls eventually evacuates because of sea - level rise, Marshallese dictionary author Bender says.

«We're making progress, but we still don't know exactly when these processes might kick in, and how fast sea level might rise if they do.

A recent study (pdf format) found that the West Antarctic ice sheet would probably collapse if sea temperatures rose by more than 5 °C.

That amount — roughly 10 % of the total released annually by human activity — could rise if global warming heats the sea and spawns storms with faster winds, he notes.

If biofuels are to free us from rising prices at the pump and rising sea levelsthey must be produced from agricultural and urban wastes rather than corn, soy, and other food crops.

There's often intense local pressure to rebuild communities as they were, he said, even if the future risk from sea - level rise or other climate risks suggests it's not the most prudent path.

The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82 % of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres.

Because GABA is so ubiquitous, Munday fears that ocean acidification could cause sensory and behavioral problems for many sea creatures if global CO2 levels continue to rise.

If sea level rises too fast, it will drown the reef in place, but if the rate is slightly slower, the reef can adopt a strategy called backsteppinIf sea level rises too fast, it will drown the reef in place, but if the rate is slightly slower, the reef can adopt a strategy called backsteppinif the rate is slightly slower, the reef can adopt a strategy called backstepping.

Are sea levels already starting to rise accordingly, and if so what effects is this having?

Barnard and his team predicted how SoCal's shores would evolve from 2010 through 2100 by modeling the factors that influence beaches — estimates for sea level rise as well as wave and storm behavior and predicted climate change patterns if the world eventually stabilizes its greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, then starts reducing them.

If entire populations are forced to relocate by rising seas as a result of climate change, do they remain citizens of a vanished country?

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

«If the West Antarctic ice sheet were to disappear, sea level would rise almost 19 feet; the ice in the Greenland ice sheet could add 24 feet to that; and the East Antarctic ice sheet could add yet another 170 feet to the level of the world's oceans: more than 213 feet in all.»

That's the reality we're in, so I feel confident I was describing a realistic future, even if I wanted to portray rapid sea level rise also for its metaphorical financial aspects.

If Sugden's team is correct, that amount of sea level rise would be unlikely.

Most of the nation is about 1.5 meters above sea level, a threshold that could easily be breached by the end of the century if current projections of sea - level rise occur.

And if Antarctic melting increases, as some research predicts, that sea - level rise will become more profound, worsening future storm surges, she said.

So I think it's very realistic, if we want to look at the adjustment to that big disequilibrium then that we have generated, to look at those sort of rates of change that we will eventually achieve; and maybe not this century, we'll be working our way up to that, but certainly in the next century, we need to think about that as the rate of sea - level rise.

Mapping historical shoreline change provides useful data for assessing exposure to future erosion hazards, even if the rate of sea level rise changes in the future.

If sea level rises more slowly and land sinks less, the structures would build up 1000 square kilometers off the present coast.

If sea level is going to rise, that will affect a lot of coastal areas.»

So if you could then bring all these together — parts per millions, the global forcing and sea - level rise — based on the paleoclimate record, which is, kind of, the really more a recent data that the new view is built on.

They understand it because even if sea - level rise is a challenge to visualize, gentrification and the problems of affordable housing in the city are not.