Sentences with phrase «rise in sea level»

3 to 7 feet rise in sea levels by end of century.

Yes I accept that climate change will lead to 20 - 30 foot rise in sea levels in the next 50 years.

While rapid rise in sea levels pose a threat to people and coastal habitats, it could be beneficial to other valuable residents in the planet, particularly coral reefs.

Studies of sea level and temperatures over the past million years suggest that each 1 °C rise in the global mean temperature eventually leads to a 20 - metre rise in sea level.

But what about the risk that a city might not even exist in a few years, the victim of catastrophic rises in sea level due to global warming?

The amount of ice on the peninsula is relatively small, potentially contributing only a small rise in sea level.

Oh I forgot, that never really existed, so the continuing rise in sea levels if totally unprecedented.

These problems range from the disruption of global weather patterns and a global rise in sea level to adverse impacts on human health, agriculture, and animal and plant populations.

A massive rise in sea level is coming, and it will trigger climate chaos around the world.

A better measure, he said, was to look at the average rise in sea levels.

In fact, the total rise in sea level that was due mainly to shrinking ice sheets was ~ 120 meters over the past 17,000 years.

The net rise in sea level associated with this decline is about 1.3 mm / yr, which will likely accelerate with further warming.

It then becomes hard to see how the world would avoid dangerous warming and a dangerous rise in sea level, he said.

A recent global survey showed that our land area is increasing despite the slow rise in sea level.

The most terrifying part of these studies is the irreversible nature of the collapse, and the inevitable rise in sea level.

And at the high temperatures that produce extreme rises in sea level, predicting the response of the climate system is difficult.

When it does, it happens quickly and dramatically, causing sharp rises in sea level.

The resulting loss of ice has contributed to the observed rise in sea level.

It also had a corresponding rise in sea level.

The combined effect of these is to cause disproportionate rises in sea level.

For this reason, there is a widespread belief that increasing concentrations of CO2 are leading to unusual rises in sea level.

Their data suggests greater rises in sea levels this century.

They continually warn of an impending rise in sea levels.

A meter rise in sea levels is well within the range of what's possible by 2100, according to a host of studies.

These were places I thought would become distinctly different if there was a 50 - foot rise in sea level.

Even a modest rise in sea levels could cause flooding problems for low - lying coastal areas.

This seven - metre rise in sea level was hardly an imminent threat.

The survey shows that there was a net loss of ice from the combined polar ice sheets between 1992 and 2002 and a corresponding rise in sea level.

While the shipping industry — which now has easy northern access between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may be cheering this «natural» development, scientists worry about the impact of the resulting rise in sea levels around the world.

The data allowed them to calculate the redistribution of mass on Earth's surface due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and mountain glaciers, and the resulting rise in sea level.

Corell noted that the projected rise in sea level during this century of 18 — 59 centimeters (7 — 23 inches) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was based on data that were two years old.

Quality Coverage Finally, major media get good marks in a forthcoming paper assessing 20 years of news coverage of the projected rise in sea levels in a warming world by Ursula Rick, Maxwell Boykoff (of «balance as bias» fame) and Roger A. Pielke Jr., all at the University of Colorado.

For instance, the report notes that there are 22 wastewater treatment plants on the Bay Area's shoreline that are vulnerable to a 55 - inch rise in sea level by 2100, which is on the upper end of such predictions.

And in an era of accelerating rises in sea levels those effects «may be catastrophic», says Pethick, «causing inundation of coastal flood defences».

If you truly believe there is a significant rise in sea level (and compensation required by «glacial rebound») then certainly these classified datasets should show the impact of 50 years of warming.

George @ 277, the tide gauge records collated by NOAA, for The Battery, on Manhattan, show a 400 mm rise in sea level during the past 160 years.

With both West and East Antarctica affected by the change in currents, in the future abrupt rises in sea level become more likely.