Sentences with phrase «rise of sea levels»

On the larger islands, the beaches are flanked by lush vegetation, essential to keeping back the ever - increasing rise of sea level.

The important conclusion is that a one - meter rise of sea level is already inevitable, it's a matter of time.

The logic of Sallenger & co. was based on the comparison of the rate of rise of sea levels over the first and second half of time windows of 60, 50 and 40 years, i.e. the comparison of the rate of rise over the first and the last 30, 25 and...

Based on the history of the Earth, it is estimated that warming greater than 1 °C above today's level would weaken the ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica, causing eventual rise of sea level by several meters.

There seems to be a lurking expectation in some of the climate scientists and others that a new ice - age may be dawning that will yet save mankind from the apocalypse of melting polar ice and significant rise of sea levels in our lifetime.

A significant rise of sea levels, even by a fraction of a meter, much less by several meters, could wreak havoc for tens or even hundreds of millions of people.

In recent decades, this warming was accompanied by the constant rising of the sea level, and it is also hard not to relate it with the rise in extreme weather events, regardless of the fact that we can not attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in particular.

A team of scientists projects that many of the low - lying atoll islands will be uninhabitable by mid-21st century due to rising of sea levels resulting from climate change.

The impact is the melting of the glaciers and the concomitant rising of sea levels that could sink swaths of low land areas in the near future, followed by the desertification of countries vulnerable to destructive climate change reactions.

The only adjustment the IPCC is expected to make is an increase in the predicted rise of sea levels.

The enormous mass being added into the ocean also causes the seafloor to warp and deform and this can disguise the actual rise of sea levels in some parts of our planet and even cover up the actual extent of sea level rise.

In 1988, upon making the switch from natural cycle and pollution - based global cooling to CO2 - based global warming, this author told his team working on Ocean and Coastal Zones during their first meeting in Moscow, that evidence of warming would be convincing when it included an acceleration in the steady rise of sea level (from the prior ice - age) and a drop in the amount of global sea - ice.

And they all assign large economic damage to sea - level rise — even though there is no observational evidence for an influence of short - term (decadal) temperature changes on the rate of rise of sea level.

«There are suggestions in the literature that accelerated breakup of ice shelves will lead to rise of sea level by several meters by the end of the century,» Godin said.

So, for example, those people in the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], choose Hong Kong, which has six tide gauges, and they choose the record of one, which gives 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level.

The rise of sea levels, when combined with more intense storms in the future, would be a deadly combination, she said.

A similar instability may exist there, and scientists say a rapid retreat could cause a rise of sea level of several meters in a few centuries.»

The likely result may be an increase in the rise of sea levels around the world, researchers say.

Over the past year I have done several articles about the rise of the sea level.

Diseases such as dengue can now be found in more countries, the rain patterns are changing and there are key infrastructure works at risk because of the rise of the sea level.

The country has to look closely at the Northeast region as it could be seriously affected by desertification and at the La Plata basin because of the rise of the sea level.

Global warming melts the ice into the ocean which leads to the rising of sea levels worldwide.

Because many of the worlds» major cities are at or near sea level, the rising of the sea level could drown many highly populated areas, where over a billion people currently live.

Consequently, the rising of sea levels caused by melting ice sheets may cause coastal areas and islands become exposed to storm damage or potentially underwater.

***** Adaptation: These floating islands could fight the rise of sea levels.

In addition to rising temperatures, the report discussed a variety of «other possible effects of an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide», including melting of the Antarctic ice cap, rise of sea level, warming of sea water, increased acidity of fresh waters (which also applies to the danger of ocean acidification, global warming's evil twin), and an increase in plant photosynthesis.

Thanks to unusually clear and distinct layers of silt, he found evidence of a remarkable event around 11,600 years ago: a rise of sea level at a rate of meters per decade.

Now it seems that there is so much global warming that it is slowing the rise of sea levels.»

Study: There is so much global warming that it is slowing the rise of sea levels — «Is there anything global warming can't do?

Instead, let's turn toward what is just as inevitable as the rise of our sea levels: Republican obstructionism of the new EPA rules.

A recent study refutes previous findings that the rise of sea levels around the globe had been slowing down.

Second, there is a lot of bad news: Several effects of climate disruption have accelerated during the past decade, such as the loss of Arctic sea ice, the melting of big glaciers and the rise of sea levels.

According to researchers, heavy rains are bad news as they contribute to faster ice melts in the Arctic, consequently hastening the rise of sea levels.

Looking backwards in time, the IPCC techniques for estimating sea level rise can only explain about 60 % of the rise observed from 1961 - 2003 (even before the observed acceleration in the rate of rise of sea level) suggesting that their predictions for the future are likely to be a substantial underestimate.

U-M professor Jeremy Bassis is exploring how global warming is effecting glacial calving, and what impact these events will have on the rise of sea level.

A rise of sea level by a foot, which could happen as early as 2040, would render 12 % of Bangladesh's population homeless.

This is causing the melt of the ice sheets and rise of the sea level.

«We explored a way to at least delay the rise of sea level we can no longer avoid by even the strictest climate - change mitigation strategies.