Sentences with phrase «lying coastal communities»

And the more the ice sheet melts — we're talking hundreds of billions of tons of ice a year — the more that rising seas endanger low - lying coastal communities around the world.

Leading scientists also warn that this process is endangering the entire planet: Arctic warming and melting cause more extreme weather in the mid-latitudes and sea level rise that will have catastrophic consequences for low - lying coastal communities around the world.

At the same time, rising sea levels due to climate change increasingly threaten low - lying coastal communities with inundation and beach erosion — and stressed corals may not be able to grow vertically fast enough to match the pace of sea level rise.

(Searchable maps and analyses are available at SurgingSeas.org for every low - lying coastal community in the contiguous United States.)

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On the aspect of hurricanes and tropical storms and continuing weakness of the levees that protect low - lying coastal and riverine communities I forsee more wasted tax dollars (flood insurance payments) trying to postpone the inevitable: moving permanent structures to higher ground to get ahead of sea level rise.

Although a rise at the upper end of this range would be catastrophic for low - lying coastal and island communities and ecosystems, many societies will, at a cost, be able to adapt.

The impact of such storms, even if their frequency or severity remains the same, is magnified for low lying and coastal zone communities because of rising sea level [medium confidence].

These concern damages to coastal infrastructure and low - lying ecosystems from continuing sea level rise, where damages would be widespread if sea level turns out to be at the upper end of current scenarios; and, threats to agricultural production in both far south - eastern and far south - western Australia, which would affect ecosystems and rural communities severely at the dry end of projected rainfall changes.

Global warming is now accelerating the rate of sea level rise, increasing flooding risks to low - lying communities and high - risk coastal properties whose development has been encouraged by today's flood insurance system.

These communities — the poor in coastal cities and on low - lying islands — are among the world's most vulnerable to climate change and the least able to marshal the resources to adapt, a new report finds.