Sentences with phrase «rapid sea level rise»

The book discusses sea level rise spread over several centuries at slow rates but there is clear evidence presented in this book of a couple of periods of rapid sea level rise.

This was a period of very rapid sea level rise that lasted some 400 - 500 years when global temperatures were rising very quickly.

The fact that «more rapid sea level rise on century time scales can not be excluded» means little more than «we don't know».

This simple phenomena, alongside the influx of water into the oceans from melting ice in the polar regions and the world's glaciers, is driving rapid sea level rise.

It was identified then and remains today the single largest threat of rapid sea level rise.

This was a period of very rapid sea level rise that lasted some 400 - 500 years when global temperatures were rising very quickly.

Lead author James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, concludes: «If global emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise at the rate of the past decade, this research shows that there will be disastrous effects, including increasingly rapid sea level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones.»

That's the reality we're in, so I feel confident I was describing a realistic future, even if I wanted to portray rapid sea level rise also for its metaphorical financial aspects.

A glaciologist rather than a biologist, he wanted to investigate a question critical to climate change: Do subglacial rivers and lakes lubricate the movement of ice over land — and might they somehow accelerate a glacier's flow into the ocean, triggering rapid sea level rise?

Pine Island Glacier could collapse — stagnate and retreat far up into the bay, resulting in rapid sea level rise — within the next few centuries, raising global sea levels by 1.5 m11, 12, out of a total of 3.3 m from the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet13.

Hansen suggests this is similar to the process at the root of very rapid sea level rises during past deglaciations (eg Heinrich events).

(The Royal Society report does not include reference to Hansen et al, 2016 in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics — a study suggesting the possibility of even more rapid sea level rise within the current century.

Scientists: Warming causes Antarctic ice sheet growth, and lower sea levels By Kenneth Richard While many scientists are projecting rapid sea level rise as a result of a warmer Antarctica and consequent ice sheet melting, other scientists are projecting that the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet will gain in mass because a warmer Antarctica means snow and ice accumulation will outpace the -LSB-...]

The University of Western Australia's Ryan Lowe led a team of researchers who studied a reef system off the coast of northwestern Australia, as well as other reef systems across the globe, in order to develop a new model for predicting how rapid sea level rise will impact daily water temperature extremes within these shallow reefs over the next century.

Among the effects could be more frequent, extreme weather events and droughts, rapid sea level rise from icecap melting, breakdown of the marine food chain and worst of all, feedback effects like large releases of methane from thawing permafrost, or large scale dieback of forests.

The researchers chose to study these particular Pacific islands because they have experienced rapid sea level rise at a rate of about 5.1 mm per year over the past 60 years.

«If global emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise at the rate of the past decade,» said Dr. Hansen, «this research shows that there will be disastrous effects, including increasingly rapid sea level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones.»

Killian claimed I said «nigel says say nothing to the public about possible dangers of rapid sea level rise» when I said the complete opposite in two previous posts

«Summary of ocean current slowdowns, rapid sea level rise of east coast of North America, wavy jet streams and extreme weather events, Arctic and Antarctica connections and declining carbon sink in Amazon rainforests.

By Kenneth Richard Geophysicist and tectonics expert Dr. Aftab Khan has unearthed a massive fault in the current understanding of (1) rapid sea level rise and its fundamental relation to (2) global - scale warming / polar ice melt.

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

Ian Joughin made some statements recently [context] that I thought were pretty solid about it being a few centuries before this kind of very rapid sea level rise can take place and that makes sense to me because there are some very important things that you have to do in order to turn on the rapid response of the Antarctic ice sheet — you have to get rid of a couple of big ice shelves for starters.

You may want to also recall some basic history that we have had considerable climate change before, including periods of rapid sea level rise and superstorms and obviously humanity survived.

Already when I was working as lead author on the paleoclimate chapter of the 4th IPCC report more than a decade ago, some of the discussions within IPCC revolved around us paleoclimatologists regarding some risks as considerably more serious than the colleagues specializing in the modern climate, such as the risk of rapid sea level rise or instability of ocean currents and ice sheets.

We suggest that ice sheet disintegration is a highly nonlinear process and poses a danger of rapid sea level rise.

Killian claimed I said «nigel says say nothing to the public about possible dangers of rapid sea level rise» when I said the complete opposite in two previous posts he was referring to.

Alarmist cries of rapid sea level rise and Pacific Islanders losing their homes are completely unsubstantiated by empirical evidence and peer - reviewed science.

From this, the authors conclude that «rapid sea level rise may begin sooner than is generally assumed,» and also that a temperature increase of two degrees Celsius would put the world well beyond «danger.»

From worsening wildfires to rapid sea level rise, climate change has been posing a major threat to United States» most treasured historical sites in the past years, a group of scientists said.

1 — 2 Meters Of Sea Level Rise By 2100 A «Highly Erroneous» Claim Geophysicist and tectonics expert Dr. Aftab Khan has unearthed a massive fault in the current understanding of (1) rapid sea level rise and its fundamental relation to (2) global - scale warming / polar ice melt.

A fourth interval of rapid sea level rise 8200 - 7600 years ago was first identified by a hiatus in coral growth in the Caribbean about 7600 years ago.

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

That's because the risk of triggering abrupt changes in the climate system — such as rapid sea level rise or widespread droughts — becomes high above one of two degrees warming.

I don't take the 40 days and 40 nights literally, but I'd say it perhaps had something to do with a severe flood from persistent heavy rains... or maybe the rapid sea level rise of a few meters from the North American sea bursting and spilling into the Atlantic.