Sentences with phrase «sea level rise in the future»

He refused to respond directly to any of these questions, saying only that there was no evidence for an acceleration of sea level rises in the future.

The finding, which will likely boost estimates of expected global sea level rise in the future, appears in the March 16 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

New research from scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources brings into clearer focus just how dramatically Hawaiʻi beaches might change as sea level rises in the future.

How fast this rapid thinning goes on, and for how long, will determine how quickly sea levels rise in the future.

But the responses from individual installations provide a «preliminary qualitative picture of assets currently affected by severe weather events as well as an indication of assets that may be affected by sea level rise in the future,» the report says.

It's no secret that Greenland's glaciers are melting in the face of warming temperatures, but a new analysis aims to show just how their ebb and flow will impact sea level rise in the future.

«If we don't do something soon, we're committed to [13 to 20 feet] of sea level rise in the future.»

«Our primary question is how the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in August.

to sea level rise in the future — has been warming up for the last 50 years or so.

«It is really important to understand how the Greenland ice sheet flows, slides and melts today in order to be able to predict how it will contribute to sea level rise in the future,» Dr. Colgan said.

Burgmann isn't too worried about sea level rise causing more earthquakes or volcanic eruptions though, noting that catastrophic rates of sea level rise in the future are uncertain and that the current rate of rise — about 0.12 inches per year (3 millimeters per year)-- isn't enough to destabilize the crust.

Who will be at risk from more extreme weather and sea level rise in the future?