Sentences with phrase «sea levels rise»

As Earth warms and sea levels rise, governments in vulnerable areas will have a tough choice to make.

World Bank economist Stephane Hallegatte, along with a team of scientists and engineers, studied 136 cities across the world to see how each would fare as sea levels rise between 2005 and 2050.

For example, New York City is expected to see regional sea levels rise as much as 30 percent more than the global average.

Coastal defenses are becoming more important as sea levels rise, he notes, and climate models suggest some parts of the planet will become stormier.

But scientists have bad news: Without human intervention, many of the region's beautiful beaches may disappear by 2100 as sea levels rise.

And, as sea levels rise, even ordinary tides will reach higher.

«When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,» explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural Hazards and the Earth System.

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.

Sandy, which hit the East Coast in the first six months of his tenure, forced him to confront some of the social vulnerabilities of managing people as sea levels rise.

The information they've unearthed about intense sea surface cooling is crucial as sea levels rise, the researchers said.

As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat.

Climate models show it's enough to shake up ecosystems and make sea levels rise.

As sea levels rise, many people will be forced to higher ground, Nunn says.

Some island governments have even begun thinking about whether they may have to relocate their entire populations, should sea levels rise high enough to render their idyllic homelands uninhabitable.

Mass Audubon strategically established this wildlife sanctuary, comprised of more than 50 % upland, in part to accommodate migration of the abutting salt marsh migration as the sea levels rise.

As sea levels rise and disaster risks to coastal communities grow, some planners are broaching the idea of a «strategic retreat» from areas that face persistent floods and fires.

Current generations, because kids born today will see sea levels rise by more than a foot, maybe six feet according to some projections, in their lifetimes.

Warming temperatures have been chipping away at the Antarctic ice and contributing to sea level rise.

Beyond sea level rise, San Francisco is slowly sinking at a rate of up to 10 millimeters per year in a process called subsidence.

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

There's no getting around the fact that the loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the resulting sea level rise would be pretty devastating for humanity.

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.

«If you're trying to detect change in something, you need long and continuous uninterrupted records of things like the sea ice or sea level rise or Greenland's ice sheet,» Shepherd said.

«With 20 meters of sea level rise, we would lose a state: Delaware,» he warned.

In this study, the effects of sea level rise (assumed to continue at present, at the time of the study, rates, which the authors noted was likely conservative), wave fetch, wind speed and direction were examined and the resultant erosion rate was estimated for the Western and Eastern shore of Uppands, Port Isobel and Tangier Island by selecting 10 points along the western and eastern shoreline of all the islands.

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.

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

The other issue is when we talk about doing something about climate change, doing something means to avoid major sea level rise, we need to reduce emissions globally starting today... seven percent per year.

Sediment resources on the OCS are leased to local communities or federal agencies to help them restore shorelines or wetlands in an effort to address chronic erosion, sea level rise, impacts from major storms, or to protect valuable infrastructure and habitat.

Because even if the predictions don't turn out to be correct — if hurricanes don't grow larger and carry more rain — if there's sea level rise due to climate change, these storms become more devastating.

I want to reiterate Leonard Berry's recent op - ed «Sen. Rubio, Florida needs you to speak up about sea level rise,» asking the senator to represent Florida residents at the hearings for Mike Pompeo to become the new secretary of state.

The inundation came because the Bay of Bengal was some inches higher than normal (as climate changes, sea level rises because warm water takes up more space).

Science has discovered chariot wheels in the Red Sea, sea level rises above trees during the period of the great flood, and skeletal remains of giants (though there is concerted effort to keep these under wraps as «hoaxes»).

Unfortunately, it is also one of the most sensitive to climate change given its dependence on weather conditions, both directly and through climate - dependent stressors (pests, epidemics and sea level rise).

Just in time for Bali, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a new crisis report listing the ten cities most due to be flooded by warming - induced sea level rise.

Among the most visible and dramatic effects of climate change in Massachusetts is sea level rise and ocean acidification.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

Afterword, students discuss ways of reducing and adapting to future sea level rise through individual and collective action.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

Warming temperatures, sea level rise, and ocean acidification — among other challenges — will force our feathered friends to adapt.

Alarming stories of more famine, sea level rises, floods, hurricanes and droughts are easy ones to grab attention.

The Blueway Plan responds to the challenges of extreme weather events and gradual sea level rise.

The pamphlets warn that consequences of climate change in the UK would include summer heat related deaths, sea level rises and food shortages by the end of the century.

This complements the more than $ 20 billion resiliency plan we're undertaking across the five boroughs to protect our neighborhoods and infrastructure from flooding, sea level rise and other climate risks, helping us create a more resilient, sustainable and equitable New York City.»

I remain committed to achieving real action on gun control, sea level rise, healthcare, education and so many other issues affecting our everyday lives and the brighter future we hope to leave to our children that now more than ever require champions.

KINGSTON — The City of Kingston Flooding Task Force, which was created to address waterfront flooding and sea level rise, continues to look at alternatives and suggestions to avoid flooding in the future.

«This is bigger than just sea level rise.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

He called for the building of levees or other barriers to counter the threat of storm flooding as sea level rises; in New York Harbor the water is about a foot higher than it was a century ago.