Sentences with phrase «interest are sea level rise»

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

The paper does quote an acceleration, but for the period 1807 - to 2009, which seems an odd period to quote as we'd be most interested in whether or not anthropogenic emissions had caused an acceleration in sea level rise.

Here is an interesting thought: If I say the sea levels will rise 0» over the next 100 years, the UN will call me out and say I am wrong.

Rise of the global average sea level over the time periods of most interest to human economies is controlled primarily by the mass or density of ocean water.

But what caught my eye was a really interesting companion article, highlighting research on Roman seaside ruins which indicate that for the past two millennia or so that sea levels have been comparatively steady, and that the level of increase we witness today really started with industrialization.Though there's no doubt that sea levels around the globe have fluctuated widely, as in hundreds of foot differences — at the end of last ice age when ice sheets melted sea level rose almost 400 feet.

Alley acknowledged that the IPCC's sea level rise estimate «is well on the optimistic low - rise side of the possible outcomes,» and added that «the estimates in the new paper of freshening, and discussion of stabilization of the southern ocean and influences on precipitation, are interesting and important.»

A well - organized and vocal group of residents has taken a keen interest in municipal preparations for sea - level rise caused by climate change, often shouting their opposition, sometimes while planners and politicians are talking.

It is important to not let the interesting details obscure our vision of the broader picture which is that the global mean sea level has been and continues to rise.

This is interesting but it of course is not a refutation that sea level is not rising.

contributing to global sea level rise is an interesting phrase considering that the rate of sea level rise has been reduced for the last several (5?)

Government interest in stemming the tide of patent trolls, like daily temperatures and sea levels, is rising.