Sentences with phrase «of ocean rise»

Remember we are talking about several hundred feet of ocean rise.

Unfortunately, current rates of ocean rise are far slower than what human - caused climate change may set off over the coming decades.

If Earth is now locked into many feet of ocean rise, it would be enough to flood major metro areas.

Temperatures in the upper 700 meters of the ocean rose over the last two decades of the 20th century before flattening out in 2003.

I wanted to row until the curve of the ocean rose to extinguish this light, but I lost my duel with the lighthouse for the unglamorous reason that I was hungry.

There is nothing consequential of the average temperature of Ocean rising by.2 C or.5 C in a century.

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Not only is the reef threatened by widespread bleaching as a result of rising ocean temperatures, but the project also requires the major expansion of the Abbot Point port in Queensland.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

Almost a quarter of the coral in the 132,974 square foot wonderland of marine life is dead, and 93 % has been touched by «bleaching,» a result of rising ocean temperatures.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

It's like raising the tide of the ocean, every ship going to rise as well.

NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- In last week's acceptance speech, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney held out this challenge: «President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet.

Supposed calamities like the accelerated rise of sea level, ocean acidification, more extreme climate, tropical diseases near the poles, and so on are greatly exaggerated.

As she is borne aloft by four handsome angels, below her are the oceans, abysses, deserts and mountains where she witnessed to the sacred moment of her encounter with the risen Lord.

A series of Cataclysmic events will take place, to mention a few, earthquakes, Yellowstone, the coming California earthquake August 9, 2011, the earth wobble, the volcanic eruptions, the oceans rising, the earth splinting open spilling lava all over, the atmosphere will be consumed killing all living things.

«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all over the earth the oceans will rise changing the topography, the atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.

One possible scenario is that rising temperatures may alter ocean currents, depriving Europe of the Gulf Stream and making it more like Labrador or Siberia.

Human action would lead to the melting of the polar ice caps and the consequent rise of ocean levels.

This universe and everything around use is absolutely amazing, from the ability for me to type on this keyboard to the sun rising and the tides of the oceans our world is amazing.

No conscious guidance is needed to swirl minerals around a geothermal vent under the surface of the ocean — and that sort of place is just the sort of environment that can give rise to new organic lifeforms, thanks to the requisite and very common factors to be found there.

Out of an ocean of nothingness with fearful struggle, the work of man rises slowly like a small island....

As an alternative to the surf clams, Ocean Quahogs began to fill the gap to meet the rising demand of clam meat.

Where we spent our days riding bikes, paddle - boarding lakes, swimming in the ocean, flying kites on the sand dunes, rummaging through thrift stores + vintage shops, drinking wine and eating lots of lobsters and mussels and clams while watching the sun set and the supermoon rise.

Her most recent work was a drawing of cliffs rising above an ocean beach.

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, ocean waters are expected to rise between 10 inches and 2 feet by the end of the century.

Among the most visible and dramatic effects of climate change in Massachusetts is sea level rise and ocean acidification.

To his credit, Governor Cuomo has convened a «Sandy Commission» of experts to review what worked and didn't work during Sandy, and to make recommendations for how New York should prepare for rising oceans and volatile weather.

There are 14 colors to choose from in kid's sizes: black, two shades of pink, green, ocean blue, two shades of purple, mint, violet, two shades of blue, orange - blue, and rose red.

By breaking up petroleum into smaller droplets that dissolved faster in the deep ocean, the dispersants decreased the amounts of volatile toxic compounds that rose to the surface and outgassed into the air.

New research suggests rising oceans could swamp the world's coasts by the end of the century — sooner than previously anticipated

The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

«Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that — unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future — there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.

That may be particularly important in a time of rapid change due to rising ocean temperatures and increasing human activity on the high seas.

More than 60 percent of this rise is caused by the thermal expansion of the ocean.

These changes indicate that the ocean has absorbed more than 80 percent of the heat added to the climate system: this heating is a major contributor to sea - level rise.

«Sea level observations are telling us that during the past 100 years sea level has risen at an average rate of 1.7 millimeters per year,» most of that due to thermal expansion as the top 700 meters of the oceans warms and expands.

New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus.

The team have now found that a rise in ocean temperature of only 2 °C would cause some algae to stop producing DMS.

Most sea - level rise comes from water and ice moving from land into the ocean, but the melting of floating ice causes a small amount of sea - level rise, too.

Rising levels of CO2 are making it hard for fish to breathe in addition to exacerbating global warming and ocean acidification

Based on modeling results by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which predicted that Pacific Ocean temperatures would rise by 1 degree Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the next 50 years, a Canadian and U.S. team of scientists examined the distributional changes of 28 species of fish including salmon, herring, certain species of sharks, anchovies, sardines and more northern fish like pollock.

Ice Age evidence suggests rising temperatures could boost areas of ocean water with little oxygen for life

Rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus.

«Thanks to the newest NASA missions, such as Oceans Melting Greenland and Operation IceBridge, we have been able to make great advances in understanding the evolution of this very dynamic sector of Greenland and its impact on sea level rise now and in decades to come,» he said.

Food production is rising sharply, requiring more carbon - based fuels and nitrogen - based fertilizers, both of which exacerbate global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.

The rise of carnivory would have set off an evolutionary arms race that led to the burst of complex body types and behaviours that fill the oceans today.

In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatOcean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatocean acidification and rising water temperatures.