Sentences with phrase «projected sea level rise»

Limited knowledge of ice sheet dynamics leads to a broad range for projected sea level rise over this century.

Scientists project a sea level rise of between 0.9 and 1.6 meters by the end of the century under a business as usual scenario.

Leading climate scientists, including Professor James Hansen (NASA's chief climate scientist) and Professor Steffen Rahmstorf (Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research), project sea level rise on the scale of metres through the 21st century.

As Hardball Talk explains, «The Howard Terminal / Jack London Square area of Oakland has been identified as susceptible to dramatically increased flooding as a result of projected sea level rise due to climate change.

When combined with projected sea level rise, flooding of 2.25 meters — enough to do tens of billions of dollars of damage — could take place every 5 years from 2030 to 2045.

Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney recently notified Moreton Bay Regional Council of his intention to direct it to amend its draft planning scheme «to remove any assumption about a theoretical projected sea level rise due to climate change from all and any provisions of the scheme».

This is the factor responsible for the most of the spread in projected sea level rise by the late 21st century (Kopp et al. 2014).

Because of the uncertainties in projected sea level rise over the remainder of this century, Sasmito and his co-authors use both the low and the high sea level rise scenario from the most recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (AR5).

This warming is causing an extraordinary increase in the melting of glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet that led scientists earlier this year to project a sea level rise of between 0.9 and 1.6 meters by the end of the century.

The report finds that the U.S. is particularly vulnerable to projected sea level rise; areas such as the Northeast and western Gulf of Mexico could face rates that exceed global average sea level rise.

Next, the team used historic land - loss rates and projected sea level rises to forecast the islands» future.

«This warming is causing the swift increase in the melting of glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet that led scientists to project a sea level rise of between 0.9 and 1.6 meters by the end of the century.

If there would be drastic changes in the ice sheets, then the projected sea level rise is likely to be higher.

The Netherlands, a country with a long history of coastal management, is responding to current and projected sea level rises.

This estimate is based on a projected sea level rise of one meter and without flood management interventions.

The group proposed establishing an international insurance pool that could, for example, compensate victims of projected sea level rise.

Researchers developed a climate model utilizing a projected sea level rise of between 18 inches and four feet, similar to estimates accepted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).

Those projections don't include meltwater from the gradually dwindling Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, or the expansion of ocean water as it heats up both significant factors in projected sea level rise.

Tidal data for the Torres Strait Islands region is insufficiently accurate to manage and respond to events such as storm surge and projected sea level rise.