Sentences with phrase «says sea level expert»

«There is 100 percent certainty that sea level rise made this worse,» says sea level expert Ben Strauss.

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(She says her recipe worked the same at sea level, too, which I find hard to believe, but she's the expert.)

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.

Some areas more threatened than others Sea - level rise has the potential to affect some places more than others, even within the same state, the experts said.

LA JOLLA, Calif. — Sea - level rise threatens cities around the world, and academic leaders must talk about it differently to help people grasp the potential dangers and costs, climate experts said last week.

«What I like about this paper is it shows the cost,» said Benjamin Horton, an expert on sea - level rise at Rutgers University who did not contribute to the paper.

Lead author of the study and an expert in sea level science, Professor Chris Hughes, said: «What we found was a pair of eddies spinning in opposite directions and linked to each other so that they travel together all the way across the Tasman Sea, taking six months to do sea level science, Professor Chris Hughes, said: «What we found was a pair of eddies spinning in opposite directions and linked to each other so that they travel together all the way across the Tasman Sea, taking six months to do Sea, taking six months to do it.

«This reassessment narrows the probable range of sea level rise based on the latest science,» said Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and chair of the group of experts that assembled the report.

The claim of a 270 - meter run up, which is a measure of the elevation above sea level a wave reaches on shore, is «certainly possible,» says James Goff, a paleotsunami expert at University of New South Wales, Sydney, in Australia.

Stefan Rahmstorf, a German climatologist whose research led scientists to reconsider accelerated sea - level rise, said an embattled report by North Carolina experts, recommending that the state prepare for a 39 - inch rise by 2100, is a reasonable policy when building homes and infrastructure.

«The primary uncertainty in sea level rise is what are the ice sheets going to do over the coming century,» said Mathieu Morlighem, an expert in ice sheet modeling at the University of California, Irvine, who led the paper along with dozens of other contributors from institutions around the world.

Local sea level rise experts say optimism, backed by strong planning and innovation, can result in long - term solutions to some of these challenges.

At the meeting, according to the Associated Press, scientists summarized some recent findings on rising sea level and other issues that some experts say are exceeding earlier projections.

Here is what he wrote: «As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man - made global warming.»

Unfortunately, if Australia proceeds with its plans, sea level rise expert John Church said the country will be breaking the commitment it had made at the Paris climate conference.

In late August, a Reuters story began with «a thaw of Antarctic ice is outpacing predictions by the U.N. climate panel and could in the worst case drive up world sea levels by 2 meters (6 feet) by 2100, a leading expert said.»

Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a world expert in past sea levels, said further analysis was needed to pin down 20th century sea level rise.

«The high end of the unchecked pollution scenario would threaten the homes of hundreds of millions with chronic flooding or permanent submergence this century,» said Ben Strauss, a sea - level rise expert with Climate Central.

«This is not a proposition,» said Anders Levermann, a sea - level expert at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and one of the study's authors.

I am no expert on sea level rise but the title says it all and says nothing.

If sea levels rose 10 feet, many U.S. East Coast cities such as New York and Miami would be inundated, experts say.

If you want to claim that science is on your side because this sea level expert Morner says so, you should also explain why you discount the views of all of the other sea level experts.

Indeed, I was consulting [unintelligible] the other day, who is the world's greatest expert on sea level, and has written several papers on it, and he said he is not expecting it to rise very much more than the eight inches we saw in the last century, and that in itself is only about a fifth of the 4 feet per century which has been the average sea level rise per century over the last 10,000 years, with sea level rising over 400 feet in that time.

The Philippines, a low - lying country of over 100 million people, faces threats from more intense typhoons, dramatic changes in rainfall patterns, sea level rise, and increasing temperatures as a result of man - made climate change, experts said.

The international scientific community's new assessment of the estimated sea level rise caused by global warming is a significant development, but experts say the projections for higher sea levels in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) assessment report (AR5) are still on the low side.

Geez, this week is filled with dire climate change news: Reuters reports that sea level rise expert Stefam Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute says that two meters of sea level rise is inevitable at this point.

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This rate could speed up if we keep burning fossil fuels at our current pace, some experts say, causing sea levels to rise several meters over the next 50 to 150 years.

A good example of this is the need to pin down the «threshold» for the Greenland ice sheet, says Gregory, who, as well as being a professor of meteorology at the University of Reading, is an expert in ice sheets and sea - level change.

Experts at the conference hosted by the Royal United Services Institute said it was likely that global warming would create huge flows of refugees as people tried to escape areas swamped by rising sea levels or rendered uninhabitable by desertification.