Sentences with phrase «rising damage risk»

[10:31 a.m. Updated In a conversation about the storm with Malcolm Bowman of Stony Brook late last night, we mused on whether Irene's impact would serve as a wakeup call prompting the city, which will face rising damage risk as sea levels rise in this century, to seriously consider storm surge barriers like those on the Thames.

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By running the risk of higher deficits, the Trump plan could damage the credibility of Republican lawmakers who spent years railing against the rising national debt under former President Barack Obama.

If the Texas company's plan for expanding its Trans Mountain pipeline linking Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., is completed, the risk of irreparable damage to Burrard Inlet and Vancouver's entire marine ecosystem would rise to a high level.

Not all flooded during the 2012 storm, but climate change in the form of rising sea levels is increasing the risk of future damage, and higher flood insurance bills.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

«Human decisions about energy will be important in determining how much the sea rises and thus how much damage we face, and accurate projections of storms will help in minimizing the risks.»

Such rises would sharply raise risks to food and water supplies and could trigger irreversible damage, such as a meltdown of Greenland's ice, according to U.N. reports.

For instance, rising sea levels «meant hundreds of millions of dollars were at risk in terms of damage to our coastline,» explains James Milkey, assistant attorney general for Massachusetts.

The fact that the number of residential buildings in coastal areas has increased significantly combined with the increasing risks of impacts of due climate change means that the cost of damage to coastal developments are likely to continue to rise.

Immunobiologist Kevan Herold of Yale University says the result bodes well for a circulating DNA test that could be used to screen people at high risk for type 1 diabetes before their pancreas is so damaged that blood sugar levels rise.

«Having a better understanding of the chances of local flood damage from rising seas in coastal areas is a key factor in being able to assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation options.»

It is a fair investment with risk from vacancy, tenant damage, adverse neighbourhood change and compensating potential gains if the price of the property rises.

«Damage Control» promises to chart this obsession with destruction, addressing culture's confrontation with the devastation of World War II and the rise of unprecedented technological, economic, and environmental risks.

For example, if climatologists and oceanographers only considered sea level rise to predict coastal damages without regard to escalating rates of beach - front home building, they would be as errant as would a coastal developer who assesses future risks based only on current climate and sea levels (and Professor Pielke has led the charge on such integrated approaches).

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

While the erosion and structural damage are plainly visible, village elders described how the rising seas are putting their culture at risk, too.

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While the study — «The hidden risks of climate change: An increase in property damage from drought and soil subsidence in Europe» — doesn't cite overall climate change as a direct cause for the increase in soil subsidence, it describes a strong link to the condition that will «magnify these risks as factors such as rising average temperatures and more erratic rainfall continue to alter soil conditions.»

«The increased risk of ozone damage to vegetation is mainly due to rising ozone concentrations and higher temperatures in the future,» says Jenny Klingberg at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

Those prior complaints relied on projections of future sea - level rise to estimate the damages they seek from the energy companies — a risk unlikely to affect a population located a mile above sea level.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

For example, as a result of ice melting on land, such as from glaciers and ice sheets, as well as thermal expansion of the ocean, we have seen sea level rise 3.4 millimeters per year from 1993 - 2015, which puts coastal communities at risk of flooding and infrastructure damage.

Because the risks and damages from global warming go up significantly the higher that temperatures rise, even 2.5 °C warming is still preferable to 3 °C, which is better than 4 °C, which is way better than 5 °C.

Not only have global carbon emissions continued to rise 3 percent a year, but the science has made more clear that human populations and natural systems face serious risk of substantial climate damage at warming less than 2 °C, they said.

Sea level rise, combined with coastal storms, has increased the risk of erosion, storm surge damage, and flooding for coastal communities, especially along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic seaboard, and in Alaska.

Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures.

Effects: Rising sea levels are expected to increase the risk of flooding, storm surges, and property damage in coastal cities and regions.

Sea level rise is potentially one of the most damaging results of climate change, but few people understand its risks.

«Human decisions about energy will be important in determining how much the sea rises and thus how much damage we face, and accurate projections of storms will help in minimising the risks.»

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

Some people argue that action to tackle climate change will inevitably damage economic growth, so societies have to choose: grow and accept rising climate risk, or reduce climate risk but accept economic stagnation and continued under - development.

State and local governments are surveying the risks from future sea - level rise and determining the most likely types of damage to local infrastructure.

Driven by changes in ocean circulation, the rapid sea level rise will bring increased risk of damage from hurricanes and winter storm surges, researchers say.

[32] Robert Cross, «Balancing Regulatory Risk,» (presentation at UCL International Access to Justice Conference, London, England, June 20, 2014), 25, https://research.legalservicesboard.org.uk/wp-content/media/UCL-AtoJ-Conference-presentation-20-June-2014.pdf; see also Neil Rose, «SRA's Approach to Licensing ABSs «Damaging Competition, Consumers and Access to Justice,»» Legal Futures, April 9, 2014, http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sras-approach-licensing-abss-damaging-competition-consumers-access-justice.

The test requires: (i) that there is evidence to conclude that there is a significant risk of the defendant committing further offences of the kind which might give rise to physical or psychological damage; and (ii) that there is a significant risk of his causing serious harm by so doing.

Staying protected is an important risk mitigation tool in today's time of rising frequency of threats and damages that can occur.»

If you get into a small fender bender, it might save you in the long run if you pay for any damages out of pocket, rather than reporting the accident to your insurance company and risking a hefty rise in your premium's cost even though the accident was small.

The city has made many recent improvements in an effort to lessen the problem of rising waters and flood - related damages, but the risk still exists.

Risk Factor # 3: During times of economic down turn, the frequency of EPL claims rises and employees are seeking higher damage awards.