Sentences with phrase «rising sea level increases»

For example, rising sea level increases the likelihood that a storm surge will overtop a levee or damage other coastal infrastructure, such as coastal roads, sewage treatment plants, or gas lines — all with potentially large, expensive, and immediate consequences (Nordhaus, 2010).

The rising sea level increases pressure at certain depths, which expands the area of methane hydrate stability.

Not exact matches

The issue adds to a growing list of aviation - related problems because of global warming, including increased turbulence, stronger headwinds and swamped airport runways due to rising sea levels, he said.

These financial impacts will mostly be felt in the poorest parts of Africa, Asia, and South America — causing loss of crops, droughts and other extreme weather, and increasing sea level rise.

That half a degree is the difference between low - lying island states surviving, or Arctic ice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level rise.)

Climate change is certainly an important aspect — it is fueling sea level rise and the increasing intensity of storms.

But rising sea levels and increasing average temperatures due to climate change are further expanding the destructive reach of these storms.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Historic Environment Scotland report that Ewan Hyslop, Head of Technical Research and Science at HES, said: «Climate change poses a number of very real threats to Scotland's historic environment, from an increased frequency of extreme and unpredictable weather events to rising sea - levels.»

It shows that the greatest threats to the UK come from periods of too much or too little water, increasing average and extreme seasonal temperatures, and rising sea levels.

WHEREAS, the physical consequences of climate change are already evident, including rising sea levels, increased hurricane intensity, increased winter storm intensity, and species migration;

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.

«Sea level is rising and higher sea level increases the damages from coastal storms,» said Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Penn StaSea level is rising and higher sea level increases the damages from coastal storms,» said Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Penn Stasea level increases the damages from coastal storms,» said Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Penn State.

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...

While Kahan focused on the importance of communication in organizing responses to sea - level rise, Rutgers University's Benjamin Horton explored the underlying scientific forces that drive sea - level increases.

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.

As with sea level rise, the graduate increase becomes more important during events that amplify those otherwise naturally occurring cycles.»

Following the current trajectory toward a 2 - degree - Celsius temperature increase in the atmosphere, experts say sea levels could rise between 3 and 6 feet by 2100.

It cautions that the United States has not done enough to avoid rapid increases in carbon dioxide contributing to rising sea levels, intensifying heat waves and storms, damaging droughts and other impacts.

As glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University notes: «The ice sheet is losing mass, this loss has increased over time, [and] it is not the dominant term in sea - level rise — but it matters.»

Excessive swings in the world's climate patterns include the potential of increasing global warming and sea level rise.

For the first time, the scientists show that the damage costs consistently increase at a higher rate than the sea - level rise itself.

More extreme rainfall and rising sea levels will increase the frequency of devastating floods like those that hit Queensland in 2011.

For example, as global CO2 levels rise, increases in the acidity of the ocean are expected to have dramatic impacts on sea life.

Expected regional sea level rise is taken into account by separating two components, namely the increasing number of events and the increasing severity of each one.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

The first predications of coastal sea level with warming of two degrees by 2040 show an average rate of increase three times higher than the 20th century rate of sea level rise.

Along the coast of southern California, for example, low outflows increase the likelihood that saltwater could encroach into an aquifer, particularly as sea levels rise.

Consequently we will see increase in the ice - sheet contribution to global sea - level rise.

Among other important changes now occurring in the marine environment, rising sea levels will create the need for increased protection from such severe storms.

That could drastically increase the rate of ice release and the speed of sea - level rise.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

The number of people affected by droughts could increase by a factor of seven and coastal damage, due to sea - level rise, could more than triple.

But it also looks ahead to ways New York and other cities might adapt to rising sea levels — and the increasing likelihood of future Sandys.

While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive impact on life, property and economies of some of the United States» most populous cities, researchers have developed a new, statistical method that more precisely calculates the rate of sea level rise, showing it's not only increasing, but accelerating.

Coastal communities around the world will likely see similar wave height increases, dependent on local reef structures and extent of sea level rise.

Rising sea levels are certain in a warming world, but there is still substantial uncertainty about the extent of the increase in this century, mainly because the dynamics that could erode the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica remain poorly understood.

For example, the Northeast is already experiencing increases in severe rains and higher - than - average sea - level rise.

A 12 percent increase in the rate of aquifer recharge from added precipitation, combined with a projected 3 - foot rise in sea level by the end of the century, would raise groundwater levels in some parts of the city by an additional foot — up to 4 feet higher than current levels.

Hotter temperatures, an increase in heavy downpours and rising sea levels are among the effects of «unequivocal» warming, that analysis found.

But in terms of the frequency of these kinds of storms, we have strong evidence that storm surge will increase (on average) with sea level rise.

As global sea level rises, low - lying island nations must reckon how to cope not only with loss of agricultural acreage and increased vulnerability to storms, but also with reduced habitat for endemic species

And if Antarctic melting increases, as some research predicts, that sea - level rise will become more profound, worsening future storm surges, she said.

«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

The average rate of sea - level rise increased by 3 millimeters a year before 2006, and then jumped to 9 millimeters a year on average after 2006.

Deltas are highly sensitive to increasing risks arising from local human activities, land subsidence, regional water management, global sea - level rise, and climate extremes.

With less than 14 inches of sea - level rise, most of the 90 U.S. coastal cities studied outside of Alaska would see a 25-fold increase in disruptive and damaging flooding by around 2080, 2060, 2040 or 2030 under the low, intermediate - low, intermediate and intermediate - high scenarios, respectively.

Bangladeshis have watched high tides rise 10 times faster than the global average, and sea levels there could increase as much as 13 feet by 2100.

Climate impacts that could affect the DOD's nearly 7,600 sites worldwide include hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and increasing storm frequency and intensity

The combined effects of sea level rise and more powerful storms could cause a 10-fold increase in the occurrence rate of extreme storm surges, but smart planning could prevent Katrina - level destruction