Sentences with phrase «raise average sea level»

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

And there's a «probably low» but unknown risk that warmer rising seas could undermine the ice sheet that covers western Antarctica, raising average sea levels far more and more quickly than the roughly 1 meter (3 feet) they're now projected to increase by 2100.

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With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

And thermal changes, such as those caused by ENSO also raise and lower the average sea level.

On average, the world's glaciers and ice caps lost enough water between 1961 and 1990 to raise global sea levels by 0.35 - 0.4 mm each year.

The Greenland ice sheet, earth's second largest after Antarctica, holds enough ice that, if it were to melt entirely, it would raise average global sea level by about seven meters.

Data, collected for the years 2003 through 2010, indicates that melting ice raised sea levels worldwide by an average of 1.48 millimeters (0.06 inches) each year.

This could raise average global sea level by up to 15 feet, inundating highly populated coastal areas around the world.

They report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the expansion of the oceans as a consequence of raised temperature could lift sea levels by an average of 1.4 mm a year.

«Computer models by Hansen and others suggest that by the middle of the next century earth's average temperature may rise 4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit, possibly altering storm patterns, making crops fail, and raising sea levels to flood low - lying coastal areas.»

Melting of ice raises the global average sea level, and reduces the gravitational attraction from the ice, which allows the sea level near the ice to fall while sea level far from the ice rises more than the global average.

This could raise the global average sea - level by 7 metres over a period of 1,000 years or more.

Nuf said, as average sea depth is 12,000 feet, such a 0.5 % volume change would raise sea level 60 feet should the thermohaline circulation warm the whole ocen volume to the 86 degrees F already encountered on some tropical seas.

For an annual - and area - average warming exceeding Embedded Image in Greenland and Embedded Image in the global average, the net surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet becomes negative, in which case it is likely that the ice sheet would eventually be eliminated, raising global - average sea level by 7 m.