Sentences with phrase «of sea level»

How likely is it actually that the rate of sea level rise in this century would on average be only half of the rate currently observed, despite further warming?

These effects could lead to a devastating half meter of sea level rise by 2050, plus much more by 2100, which would wipe out huge areas of low - lying farmland.

The rate of sea level change is strongly accelerating, in the negative direction.

It is not widely - enough understood and discussed that we face projected harmful impacts, including three or more feet of sea level rise by the end of the 21st century.

It actively limits the sources of data scientists can use to build future projections of sea level rise.

Your assertions about the impacts of sea level rise are statements of your beliefs, not statements of fact.

The lower estimates of sea level rise resulting from climate change was seen as a major failing of the 2007 report.

He refused to respond directly to any of these questions, saying only that there was no evidence for an acceleration of sea level rises in the future.

It may commit the planet to the loss of most of its ice sheets and therefore dozens of metres of sea level rise.

This can most easily be demonstrated by analyzing the components of the sea level rise over the last 4 decades.

Experts weigh in on the local effects of sea level rise.

But maps of sea level pressure can also be averaged over several months or years, to show the average circulation patterns in the atmosphere.

Four inches of sea level rise by the year 2100 won't alarm anyone, and the other, more extreme scenarios seem less likely than our being hit by a large asteroid.

A group of colleagues have succeeded in producing the first continuous proxy record of sea level for the past 2000 years.

There is now over a trillion dollars of infrastructure and over 140 million people living within 1 m of sea level rise.

We have about 20,000 years of sea level data, but there was only one mention of that and no charts.

The second cause of sea level increase is the melting of land ice — such as glaciers and ice sheets.

I would like to know more about the graph, such as the source of the sea level data and what proxies were involved.

Chapter 11 examines the much discussed issue of sea level rise.

The pattern of sea level change associated with melting of a large ice mass is known as a «melt fingerprint,» because each ice mass produces a unique pattern.

The climate is changing, causing a dramatic rise and fall of sea levels and violent storms at alarming rates.

But what is the risk of this actually happening, and what does it mean in terms of sea level rise?

These records provide both a direct measure of sea level and an indirect measure of global ice volume.

Despite their small global volume — equivalent to less than 0.3 mm of sea level rise — these glaciers are important for two reasons.

[Response: The problem of sea level rise does not arise on a calm day, even at spring tide.

Beyond 2100, the projections are increasingly dependent on the emissions scenario (see Chapter 10 for a discussion of sea level rise projections for other scenarios considered in this report).

Despite the increased threat of sea level rise, I believe that it is still possible to keep impacts of human - made climate change moderate.

That would highlight another major failure for both CO2 driven models and models of sea level change.

By comparing these predictions to observations of sea level change, he hopes to develop new constraints on the influence of mantle dynamics on sea level.

I began by figuring out how much of a sea level rise my story needed.

No serious prediction can be made unless we have a good understanding of the sea level changes today and in the past centuries.

From 1992 to 2002, [the graph of the sea level] was a straight line, variability along a straight line, but absolutely no trend whatsoever.

How about all the other negative consequences of sea level rise?

That would mean huge levels of sea level rise will happen sooner — much sooner than expected.

Why do we only have 4 or 5 reconstructions of sea level from this huge database?