Sentences with phrase «other coastal regions»

And it was in 1988 that James Hansen decided to present the case that this slow warming since the LIA was soon to become «unprecedented» due to CO2 emissions, thus causing untold climate chaos - i.e. boiling oceans, droughts, famines, Manhattan Island flooding along with other coastal regions, Earth turning into the next Venus, and etc..

The Black Sea Coast enjoys slightly cooler summer temperature and winters are wetter than other coastal regions.

Dr. Garzke and her team assume that their results can be transferred to other coastal regions similar to the Kiel Fjord.

It may seem like the Greenland coast is catching a rare break, while other coastal regions throughout the Arctic are slipping away.

Not exact matches

In other words, notable public discontent away from coastal regions need to be factored into investors» macro outlook, and if significant number of individuals consider a $ 400 emergency expenditure «more challenging to handle,» then investors should be biased to position portfolios more defensively (i.e. in curve steepeners).

This project also will provide for the construction of a cold - storage facility at Guyana's Cheddi International Airport, to meet the needs of small and large producers in Timehri, Soesdyke and other areas of Region 10, which is a large area just south of the northern coastal regions.

Based in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan province in Southwestern China, unlike other companies that targeted eastern and coastal regions in China, the company's growth leveraged on the emerging and fast growing cities in southern, western and central parts of China before tapping into more established eastern and coastal regions.

He however added that, the NDC government has provided more development to the Volta Region in areas of education, health, roads, coastal development among others.

Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»

Other areas in the Afar region are below sea level, however, and could see flooding before that if similar rifting occurs near the coastal volcanoes to the north and east that form a natural levee against the sea.

More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

Their coastal regions are being immersed by up to three millimeters per year — among other things, due to human intervention.

But he might just as well be describing what he witnessed this year in Indonesia and Sri Lanka after the tsunami battered the coastal regions of Southeast Asia, or several other disaster sites he has visited in recent years.

Also, under this study, the Southeast likely faces greater effects than other regions because of coastal property damages.

Dunham was staying in a small coastal village called Unawatuna when she became one of the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by a massive tsunami that hit Sri Lanka and other countries in the region.

Buick has bragged about its recent sales successes: how its median age has lowered by seven years from 64 to 57, how sales in trendy coastal regions have increased as much as 42 percent, and how most of these sales are conquests from other companies — including, we'd wager, Toyota.

Most policies will include wind coverage, except in coastal and other regions that are at high risk from windstorms.

And while other regions boast of having a single off - leash dog beach, Humboldt has six of them — one of which awaits at the end of a scenic 5 - mile coastal trail.

The award winning architecture is cutting edge coastal, with breeze catching shutters, European appliances, polished boards and other luxuries making it unique holiday accommodation in the region.

Winter can bring ideal weather to Baja California Sur and the Cape area, while the Pacific coastal regions of northern Baja can bring welcome relief from the summer heat of other parts of the peninsula.

Alicante is perfect if you want to visit one of Spain's other top coastal regions - the Costa Blanca.

At most coastal regions and islands I've visited around SE Asia, I've found that local boats are invariably identical, save for the boat name or some other mark to distinguish one from another.

Numerous other cultures that flourished from the coastal regions until the mountainous areas of the Andes lived in this territory.

In the sections that follow, depictions of coastal New England, small - town Pennsylvania, Midwestern farms and other rural regions will illustrate the dispersal of standard modernist styles, such as Cubism and Fauvism, and demonstrate the spread and gradual acceptance of these artistic movements in the American provinces.

And it's quite clear that regions already heavily affected by other human activities (coastal pollution, overfishing, etc.) are — no surprise — likely to feel more stress from acidification.

Islands in the region are likely to suffer from sea level rise and floods, coastal erosion and deterioration, water scarcity and non-native species invasion, among others.

As you are aware there are major local variations from the global pattern, with coastal land in some regions sinking faster than the average and in other regions being uplifted with respect to mean sea level.

[*) In other East Pacific regions this could be different — although at present for instance the Peruvian coastal waters [Niño 1 & 2] do not show much of that classical Christmas activity.

The only comprehensive study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass was a 10 + year study based on continuous 24/365 satellite measurements over the period 1993 to 2003, covering 80 % of the AIS with estimates from other methods for the remaining 20 %, which can not be measured by satellites (coastal areas and polar regions).

In an article in the Pakistan Journal of Meteorology, Rasul and others say there is a greater incidence of tropical cyclones and of saline intrusion in coastal regions.

His theory is, that the sea surface has been warming since the little ice age, and ocean air also warmed coastal and other ocean air affected regions, but not OAS regions.

«You've shifted onto an unstable tax base that you're hoping will go away, and you'll wind up having to raise other taxes up anyway» He also said a carbon tax imposed regressive penalties on sectors and regions already struggling in the current economy — such as energy - intensive manufacturing in the Midwest — while rewarding «higher - income coastal knowledge work.»

The theory explains, among other mysteries, why deforestation around coastal regions tends to lead to drying in the interior.

According to the recent report out in Foreign Policy, and according to other eyewitness accounts and news reports coming in from coastal West Africa during recent years, sea level rise and increasing erosion due to powerful storms continue to produce worsening impacts for the region.

Reports by Foreign Policy and others on the plight of coastal West Africa shines a light on sea level rise related hardships and losses throughout that region.

Adding in deeper waters and the other U.S. coastal regions boosts the potential to more than 4.1 million megawatts.

The rare monster tropical cyclones (the term for hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical storms) could inundate coastal areas with storm surges greater than 15 feet (4.6 meters), and could even surpass 30 feet (9 m) in some regions of the world.

Destructive storms, drowned coastal regions, decimated food chains, forest die - off, spreading disease, economic devastation, warfare and massive migrations of humans and other species are all virtual certainties in the lifetimes of many people now living, unless the world makes sharp cuts in greenhouse gases.

Early excerpts from the platform appear flush with Mitt Romney's positions in calling for drilling in ANWR (which would require congressional approval), opening more coastal regions to oil - and - gas leasing, and other policies.

The first is the increasing vulnerability and exposure associated with increasing concentration of wealth in coastal and other disaster - prone regions.

The coastal region is also influenced by river sediments from the Yukon and other Alaska rivers.

Although very few measurements have been made of aerosol composition in Pacific coastal fog, large differences in fog water chemistry have been reported from other regions.

Extreme weather events associated with climate change pose particular challenges to human settlements, because assets and populations in both developed and developing countries are increasingly located in coastal areas, slopes, ravines and other risk - prone regions (Freeman and Warner, 2001; Bigio, 2003; UN-Habitat, 2003).

Texas insurance rates maybe higher in a certain region such as in coastal areas, earthquake fault lines, high crime, and other locations.

Most policies will include wind coverage, except in coastal and other regions that are at high risk from windstorms.