Sentences with phrase «rises over the next few centuries»

According to the NYTimes blog Green Inc., the Dutch are designing floating cities to replace or augment land - based cities as the global sea level rises over the next few centuries.

-- but to get a better understanding of how much and how fast the sea level will rise over the next few centuries.

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But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Without significant mitigation, sea - level rise of several meters is to be expected over the next few centuries.

Over the next year or so I began to see fewer references from AGW supporters to the Industrial Revolution as a start point and more emphasis on the spread of industry in the early 20th century, until I came across anti arguments pointing out that after the rise of temps to the third and fourth decades the world began to cool again, considerably.

In 2013, he made headlines when a magazine reported his conclusion that a seventy - foot rise in sea levels over the next few centuries was probably already «baked into the system.»

Sea levels over the past few hundred years have been rising by around 8 inches per century, so the Sea level around New York City will rise by about a foot over the next hundred years, and this has nothing to do with global warming.

If the temperature rise is lower, the sea level will rise one and a half feet, and if temperatures are driven higher by our inaction over the next few years, sea level rise will be almost five feet by 2100 (and continue rising in subsequent centuries).

The best possible outcome right now, Rahmstorf said, is that we stabilize temperatures and that sea level rise happened at a steady rate over the next few centuries, and not accelerate.