Sentences with phrase «lying coastal nations»

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The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

(Irony alert: much of the global warming that imperils low - lying island nations and coastal nations like Bangladesh is a due to CO2 emissions from... coal - fired power plants.)

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

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.

The news is particularly troubling for my country, the Maldives — the world's lowest lying island chain — and for other coastal and island nations that sit just [continue reading...]

Poorer nations, particularly low - lying coastal and island nations that are most at risk for becoming submerged under a rising sea level, prefer the agreement to embrace the much more difficult target of 1.5 ° Celsius.

Unless global temperatures are stabilized, higher seas from melting ice sheets and mountain glaciers, combined with the heat - driven expansion of ocean water itself, will eventually lead to the displacement of millions of people as low - lying coastal areas and island nations are inundated.

«As our world warms,» he claimed, «Greenland's ice will slip faster into the sea, contributing to a rise in sea levels that already threatens hundreds of millions of people living in low - lying nations and coastal cities.»

The report singles out coastal areas, including low - lying island nations, as hot spots of elevated risk that may not be completely manageable due to the steady climb in global sea levels projected to take place during the rest of this century, as the planet warms and land - based ice sheets melt.