Sentences with phrase «into coastal impact»

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

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These coastal changes, in turn, could also deliver more nutrients, carbon, and other chemicals into the Arctic Ocean and have significant impacts on the Arctic food web.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

In terms of community impact, BNP has been directly involved in the funding of a four giga - watt coal power plant in India, the Tata Mundra plant, which affects the livelihood of thousands of fish workers by dumping gallons and gallons of warm water from the plant into the naturally colder water of the coastal area.

The chart provides critical insight into Commissioner performance relating to its impact on natural coastal resources and their potential to set important statewide precedents.

Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to enter into an arrangements with NAS to study: (1) the current status of ice sheet melt, as caused by climate change, with implications for global sea level rise; and (2) the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone coastal regions.

Specific populations, such as those less economically developed or in lower - lying regions will be at a very high risk of impact and hundreds of millions of people will potentially be adversely affected by events like coastal flooding, saltwater infiltration into agricultural lands, and sea level rise.

-- The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Director of the National Science Foundation shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to complete a study of the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development, including storm intensity, track, and frequency, and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone coastal regions.

The approaches available to help coastal communities adapt to the impacts of climate change fall into three general categories: 1) Protection of people, property and infrastructure is a typical first response.

This is especially the case for coastal waters, where the impact of the water that flows into the sea is huge, not only in terms of weight, but also in terms of the currents they cause.

Batches of sand from a beach on the Delaware Bay are yielding insights into the powerful impact of temperature rise and evaporation along the shore that are in turn challenging long - held assumptions about what causes beach salinity to fluctuate in coastal zones that support a rich network of sea creatures and plants.

While the report delves into agricultural, health and other climate impacts, it specifically calls out threats to coastal communities from sea - level rise and storm surges.

This rises to nearly 5 per cent if the economic benefits of avoiding climate change impacts such as coastal flooding or storm damage are taken into account, it said.

Pollution that impacts corals stems from a range of sources, including agricultural run - off — the fertilizer from which can cause algae blooms that result in dead zones — stormwater run - off from roads and urban areas into coastal waters, and poorly managed wastewater treatment plants that allow effluent to enter the waterways.

The TSRA, CSIRO and Queensland government submissions to House of Representatives Standing Committee Inquiry into climate change and environmental impacts on coastal communities both identified a lack of data as an issue.