Sentences with phrase «if oceans rise»

Zillow predicts that 1.9 million homes will be underwater by 2100 if the oceans rise six feet, and more than a quarter of these homes are in Miami.

The UN has estimated that if oceans rise at least one meter, islands like Antigua in the Caribbean will sustain «149 multi-million dollar tourism resorts damaged or lost» from coastal flooding fueled by sea level rise, the UK newspaper The Independent reported.

If the oceans rise then the Earth should slow down, and if the oceans subside then the Earth should spin faster just like a skater moving her arms in and out.

If the ocean rises a couple of hundred feet, I might even have waterfront property.

If the ocean rise is a delayed response to past warming, this means that heat previously sunken in deep layers is now moving to upper layers... How might this happen?

Not exact matches

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.

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 people had not built heavily along the shoreline, the beaches would just naturally migrate inland as the ocean rises.

Climate change has caused ocean temperatures to rise, a trend that will continue in the coming centuries even if fossil fuel emissions are curtailed.

«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.»

However, in the 2013 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the IPCC concluded that «Modelling indicates that SRM methods, if realizable, have the potential to substantially offset a global temperature rise, but they would also modify the global water cycle, and would not reduce ocean acidification.»

If there's anything more complicated than the global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea - level rise, it might be the forces of real estate speculation and the race - based historical housing patterns that color present - day gentrification in Miami.

It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if greenhouse gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would continue to rise for centuries because of the warming that's already happened.

Their mission was to study how the abundant marine life in these frigid waters will bear up under the stress of one of the world's most daunting, if least publicized, environmental threats: the rising acidity of the oceans.

If Earth is now locked into many feet of ocean rise, it would be enough to flood major metro areas.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans; longer, hotter heat waves; dangerous droughts and floods; and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict and hunger around the globe,» Obama added.

So, if Larsen C ultimately breaks up, researchers are concerned that could be a sign that other ice shelves holding back a large amount of land ice could cause oceans to rise.

The observed and projected rates of increase in freshwater runoff could potentially disrupt ocean circulation if global temperatures rise by 3 to 4 °C over this century as forecast by the IPCC 2001 report.

However, if the remaining ice shelf collapses or starts losing mass more rapidly, it could effectively unplug the glaciers next to the shelf, sending land - based ice into Southern Ocean, and contributing to sea level rise.

Within 50 years, if sea levels continue to rise at the current rate, the ocean will completely swamp the 10 - square - mile island.

If the ice shelves collapse, this land ice ends up in the ocean and consequently sea level will rise.

The world's oceans have already risen 7.5 inches since 1901, and if warming continues unabated, they're projected to rise as much as 2 feet by the end of the century.

According to a new study, if oceans continue to change at an insanely fast rate, by 2100, sea levels will rise high enough to cause major problems for coastal cities.

Hawaii possesses a magical allure, its volcanic islands rising triumphantly from the ocean, each ringed in colorful beaches and bestowed with lush tropical rainforests, gushing mountain rivers, a beautiful native population and surfing spots that would be mythical if they weren't real.

If you are a novice, you should hit the ocean when the tide is rising as it offers a perfect condition.

If it would warm 5 degrees this century, which seem quite possible, that would be about 100 times faster than the average rate during the last deglaciation, although I suppose ocean heat content rises somewhat slower.

When you say «If the oceans are warming at all, or if the net ice melting is positive, we are not in equilibrium» it suggests that you see temperatures inexorably rising towards an equilibriuIf the oceans are warming at all, or if the net ice melting is positive, we are not in equilibrium» it suggests that you see temperatures inexorably rising towards an equilibriuif the net ice melting is positive, we are not in equilibrium» it suggests that you see temperatures inexorably rising towards an equilibrium.

So if as Arc says the ocean is 360 million sq km, then 2m rise is 720,000 cubic kilometres in a hundred years.

How does society, as it stands now, not understand that they have locked into the system already a rise to the high 500's ppm, and, in my humble opinion, the low 600's are NOT out of the question.To me this is just as much of a tragedy if it takes place 250 years from now as it is if it takes only 100 years.In the end, the seventh generation is screwed by a huge loss of fresh water, a huge increase in temperature, an ocean that no longer produces even one tenth of its total protein and carboydrate output as it did in the 1800's.

Even though the level rises uniformly if I fill water into my bath tub, the ocean has a number of mechanisms by which local sea level can deviate from global sea level.

I suppose that if all uncertainties are resolved in the direction of lower risk, we just might get away with BAU for the next few decades without a complete disaster (though continued sea level rise, ocean acidification and 2 degrees Celsius actually sound pretty risky to me, and the risk that there are other factors in play seems to be reinforced by paleo data on glacial - interglacial transitions).

If the heat that's accumulated in the oceans between, say, 2003 and 2012 (~ 9 * 10 ^ 22 J) were instead entirely to heat the atmosphere, GAT would have risen ~ 17 K in that time, ex any feedbacks.

After all, if average surface temperature is 15 C, wouldn't you expect land and ocean below the surface to equilibrate at roughly that temperature (with a slightly rising gradient to account for the flow of Earth's internal heat)?

Generally, there are indications that if we reach 4 to 6C rise there is a chance possibly for larger methane hydrate release once the oceans warm up.

If you believe unforced variation is the cause, please explain why both the oceans and surface temperatures are rising.

If rising SSTs in the Indian Ocean affect the differential between the WIO and EIO then the weather patterns are accordingly affected.

But if something causes heat to be transferred from the ocean surface into its deeps more rapidly than usual, ocean surface temperatures could rise more slowly, not rise at all, or even fall despite the increased backradiation.

If the weight of Antarctic ice is actually already in the ocean then how much can its melting actually influence ocean water rises elsewhere?

Excerpt: Livermore CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar 14.5 degrees warmer than current day.

If this actually results in peak CO2 being less this year than less, it well lend support to the theory that the recent CO2 rise has been outgassing from the oceans.

The really interesting question, to follow on the last sentence of the story, is: what if you're an Indian kid looking for a light to read by — and also living near the rising ocean, or vulnerable to the the range expansion of dengue - bearing mosquitoes, or dependent on suddenly - in - question monsoonal rains.

Indeed, if the forcing increased slow enough (or the Earth responded faster — for instance, if there weren't any oceans), the temperature rise would basically just follow the forcing and you'd be hard pressed to detect an imbalance.

[Response: If the rise in atmospheric CO2 at the end of the last glacial time had come from organic carbon (trees, peat, dissolved organic matter in the ocean) or especially methane (which is even more isotopically «light» than CO2) it would have left an isotopic signature.

If we had better sea level rise data for the whole period, we might see that the heat storage curve into the ocean had a shape that better matched the simple function approximation than the land surface data does, or we might have better information on internal climate modes that confused or delayed the temperature response.

If we bring oysters back to New York Harbor we restore the life that was once here and make our city more resilient to rising water levels and warming oceans.

One problem is that if the ocean has lost heat at the suggested rate, then the thermal exapansion part of recent sea level rise should have decreased (i.e. sea level should have dropped).

Having said that, it is a really small effect — if the entire Arctic summer sea ice pack melted (average thickness 2 metres, density ~ 920 kg / m3, area 3 × 10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 (0.8 % total ocean area) = > a 4.5 cm rise instantly which implies a global sea level rise of 0.36 mm.

If the oceans had contributed to the rise in atmospheric CO2, it would hold less carbon.

If in exceeds out and the diffential MUST exist from top to bottom of the atmosphere, then before the hotter air can migrate to the deep ocean, the daily temerature cycling will force the hotter air at the bottom into an overall equlibrium ie hotter air will rise — or more correctly since GHGs have heated the air up more at the bottom, then the sun induced daily warming will add more heat to the top, & less at the bottom to force the equilibrium — ie effectively hot air rising even if not in actualitIf in exceeds out and the diffential MUST exist from top to bottom of the atmosphere, then before the hotter air can migrate to the deep ocean, the daily temerature cycling will force the hotter air at the bottom into an overall equlibrium ie hotter air will rise — or more correctly since GHGs have heated the air up more at the bottom, then the sun induced daily warming will add more heat to the top, & less at the bottom to force the equilibrium — ie effectively hot air rising even if not in actualitif not in actuality.

Thus sea levels do rise if fresh ice melts over a salty ocean.