Sentences with phrase «interest are sea level»

Impacts of special interest are sea level rise and species extermination, because they are practically irreversible, and others important to humankind.

Not exact matches

For example, interest in the Maldives — an island chain southwest of India that is fighting rising sea levels — jumped 68 percent from 2016 to 2017.

I had always been interested to know what prompted that to happen but I believe the dates of sea levels rising — and how they correspond to the volcano physically changing — offer a potential explanation.

The WAIS is of great interest to researchers as two of its largest glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, are draining into the sea and contributing to sea - level rise.

«This partial drowning of the atolls is very interesting as it shows that the combination of rising sea level and ocean current can be detrimental to coral growth.»

As CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere top 400 parts per million, options such as storing the greenhouse gas in porous sandstone rock formations found in abundance on the sea floor are of increasing interest.

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.»

Developers aren't interested in rehabilitating his father's home on the short strip of Northeast 58th Street, where houses are about 10 feet above sea level.

According to Hill, another interesting finding was that future extreme water levels were due to more than sea level rise, as waves and tides will be amplified in the future.

Of particular interest to the researchers is a projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that future temperatures on the planet will rise faster at high altitudes than they will at sea level.

The field of urban planning is gaining interest as cities around the world, including nearby Houston, are facing increased exposure to weather - related risks and hazards ranging from sea level rise and flooding to temperature build - up and urban heat island effect.

He is also interested in studying coastal erosion and sea - level fluctuations.

Miami residents interested in elevation can face a lot of resistance from contractors, neighbors, and members of the city's sea level rise committee, but the city has been clarifying its building codes to make it simpler for residents to explore options for making their homes more resilient to sea level rise.

It is of interest to scientists because it is changing rapidly; it is thinning, accelerating and receding3, all of which contribute directly to sea level, and its future under a warming climate is uncertain.

Search for fun, friendly singles with similar interests, find The Siwa oasis is in a deep depression that reaches below sea level, to about − 19 metres (− 62 ft).

above sea level, the next interesting site you can visit is thought to have been used primarily as an agricultural plantation.

If you are interested in Cayman Island's bone fishing, deep sea fishing, boat building, catboat racing, skin diving, etc. he is the man, he has done it all to the highest level and has never lost his enthusiasm and interest in all of these activities - with him, every day is truly a new day - a fresh experience - you will love travelling with him.

People's beliefs tend to align neatly with their interests, and in the absence of indisputable proof (and to non-scientists that means the equivalent of a ten - foot rise in sea level inundating South Beach) it is more «convenient» for people to use cheap oil, natural gas and coal.

Periods that are of possibly the most interest for testing sensitivities associated with uncertainties in future projections are the mid-Holocene (for tropical rainfall, sea ice), the 8.2 kyr event (for the ocean thermohaline circulation), the last two millennia (for decadal / multi-decadal variability), the last interglacial (for ice sheets / sea level) etc..

I also found an interesting post and response that discussed fresh water possibly being behind sea level not behaving in a way ocean cooling would indicate.

California can afford a lot of infrastructure, but between sea level rise and the need for a year - round water supply it'll be interesting to see if we can manage it.

For those that are interested, I have posted some further discussion of the sea level budget and the possibility of errors caused by the introduction of Argo data on Roger Pielke Sr.'s Climate Science weblog.

gavin, I am interested in what an x feet (for various x) increase in sea level means as a reduction in actual global land area but perhaps more relevantly in the resultant increase / decrease in habitable land area (increased I imagine in Canada, Siberia, Antarctica etc).

It will be interesting to see if Texas can accept that sea level is rising, decide they have to adapt to that, and continue the cognitive dissonance of denying the cause.

I will be interested, this summer, to see when Kim goes from «The arctic is not melting, see and the seas are cooling» to «It doesn't matter it won't raise sea levels anyway».

It was interesting the graph of temp vs sea level rise.

All of the different satellite measurements agree with that, but perhaps even more interesting is that the European RSL measurement shows that the sea level in 2011 was even lower than it was back in 2005.

His interest in sea - level rise was initially stimulated in the mid-1990s by his work (with others) on the historic sea - level mark at the Isle of the Dead, Port Arthur, which indicated where sea level was in 1841.

a) People would find it interesting to take measurements of c02 b) Some of us are increasingly sceptical about «official» figures - such as the nonsensical global temperatures since 1850, sea levels and co2 measurements.

If there's any doubt why continued melting is interesting: it means sea level will keep rising even with aggressive mitigation 8 ^ .

I read an interesting article from some researchers in NC who had found — locally — that there had been no sea level rise until ~ 1970 (don't hold me to the date) and that the current rate was on the order of 8 - 10 inches / century.

In a well - sourced investigation subtitled «From the Carolina Coast to the Kochs,» The Independent Weekly, a paper in Durham, North Carolina, noted that there was more than a whiff of fossil fuel barons and real estate interests in the sea level deniers» crusade.

I am interested in the estimated cost of damages that a rising sea level might cause.

I have several clients that are interested in the issue of sea level rise, from a range of perspectives (insurance, engineers, city and regional planning, liability).

An interesting consequence of leaving out uncertain aspects is that they neglected to include the impact of glacier melting on sea level rise.

Given the ECS - imposed long lead time and the miracle of compound interest (there's that CAGR again), the money being spent on the Paris COP21 could have been invested and used to move all of Bangladesh to higher ground when the apparently inevitable sea level rise occurs, generations hence.

«Lewes is an interesting example of a fairly proactive community in terms of sea - level rise preparedness,» said California - based climate scientist Kristina Dahl, one of the authors of the new study.

The pace of interesting and important paleo sea level rise research seems to have accelerated since publication of the AR5, I will be following this closely.

Some of that ice is melting, some sea level rise is being caused, but as I said, I am not interested in the early decades of this century for sea levels.

If we are supposed to be worrying on the behalf of low lying nations and our own coastal areas surely it is the REAL sea level (the one that makes things wet) that we are interested in.

Life moved on, and around mid 1996, I joined (or rather rejoined, since an older version had been discontinued) an interesting market experiment, the Foresight Exchange which traded (via a reputation - based currency) in future possibilities including some climate change - related predictions like sea level rise.

The interesting bit is the steric sea level rise of 0.2 ± 0.8 mm / yr since 2005.

Eustatic is the interesting sea level rise, because it will not be linear over the next century like the «cautious» IPCC projections are saying.

He wrote: «i am sorry to see that you are not interested to learn if the sea levels are accelerating or not, but only to deviate from the only issue of interest.

I also find it very interesting that the sea level has risen 120 meters over the last 20,000 years — which is a background rise of 60 cm per century.

Turning to why one may well be interested in the absolute temp output from the models, this is an important variable because bits of the medium of interest (sea and air) are non-linear particularly when it comes to energy dynamics, and in the case of air particularly the models don't resolve to this level of detail.

What I find interesting is that they are worried about a few meters of sea levels in 100 years or more.

Those folk curious about the movement of land relative to sea level around different parts of Australia may be interested in this paper:

In AR5 WG1 SPM there are interesting changes compared with AR4 WG1 SPM concerning the estimated contributions to sea level rise from different sources (mm per year):

«Many of the events that made 2012 such an interesting year are part of the long - term trends we see in a changing and varying climate — carbon levels are climbing, sea levels are rising, Arctic sea ice is melting, and our planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place,» said Acting NOAA Administrator Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D. «This annual report is well - researched, well - respected, and well - used; it is a superb example of the timely, actionable climate information that people need from NOAA to help prepare for extremes in our ever - changing environment.»