Sentences with phrase «sea rise events»

Developers who are willing and able to construct resilient projects that can mitigate the impact of sea rise events stand to do very well in the coming decades.

The City of Fort Lauderdale has instituted a pilot program to designate adaptation action areas and then implement public infrastructure projects to mitigate the risk of sea rise events posed to those areas.

Not exact matches

It's mile - high sea level also makes it an excellent place to go in the event of global warming and rising sea levels.

While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

Then Moses rose up in their midst, initiated a revolt against the pharaoh's regime, and crossed over the «Sea of Reeds» in a liberative event known as the Exodus.

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.»

Rising sea levels, more intense and more frequent weather events, crop failures, and negative public health effects have all been linked to climate change, which scientists agree is caused by human activity.

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

In Josh Robin's series, Sandy: Five Years Later, NY1 examines what has been done to better protect the five boroughs, as experts believe dangerous weather events will accelerate in this era of climate change and rising seas.

«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.

Interspersing sea level rise with the latest predictions of extreme sea level events, the research team was able to illustrate the dramatic effect one has on the other and pinpoint regions of the world that are especially threatened.

Improving projections for how much ocean levels may change in the future and what that means for coastal communities has vexed researchers studying sea level rise for years, but a new international study that incorporates extreme events may have just given researchers and coastal planners what they need.

Efforts to address sea - level rise in other parts of the Atlantic coast were also discussed during the event.

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

Today, ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising, oceans are warming, and weather events are becoming more extreme.

Researchers and engineers have less information about how they will respond to sea - level rise, storm surge and other extreme events.

The research Sweet conducted suggests that, from Atlantic City south, the type of storm surge that would have been a once - in - a-century event in 1950 is likely to occur every couple decades by 2100, because of sea - level rise.

Although storms like Superstorm Sandy are incredibly rare, sea - level rise has made a Sandy - level inundation event 50 percent more likely than it was in 1950 in areas like the Battery and Sandy Hook, said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer.

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.

Events caused by sea level rise are some of the few that can be firmly linked to climate change.

Aboriginal groups from every part of Australia's coastline tell stories of long - ago deluges that can be traced to real events caused by rising sea levels at various times between around 7,250 and 13,070 years ago, two Australian researchers report September 7 in the Australian...

A new study by a Florida State University biologist shows that bleaching events brought on by rising sea temperatures are having a detrimental long - term impact on coral.

Biologists have shown that bleaching events brought on by rising sea temperatures are having a detrimental long - term impact on coral.

Coastal flooding caused by extreme weather events and sea level rise is of growing global concern.

«We know that sea levels are rising and that coastal communities are becoming more vulnerable to extreme weather - and climate - related events.

The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.

Currently, Pacific sea surface temperatures have risen as an El Niño event develops, a climate phenomenon that alters rainfall patterns around the globe.

Conclusion: The storm coincided with peak high tide in New York Harbor — but future sea - level rise will exacerbate this inundation, making a Sandy - level event more likely in the future, even if the storm itself is less severe.

The impact of these events on historical societal development emphasizes the potential economic and social consequences of a future rise in sea levels due to global climate change, the researchers write in the study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now detected evidence of this oceanographic event and an earlier sudden sea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Ssea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean SeaSea.

Steve: So, a massive earthquake would not remodel the coastline, but one of the other sections, one of the other events in this section is the rising sea level which would drastically reshape the coastlines.

Climate scientists know that the intensity of extreme precipitation events is on the rise because there's more water vapor in the atmosphere caused by higher global and sea temperatures.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

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.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

Although the new analysis adds to evidence suggesting a massive tectonic shift caused the seas to rise more than half a billion years ago, Dalziel said more research is needed to determine whether this new chain of paleogeographic events can truly explain the sudden rise of multicellular life in the fossil record.

A paper by Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, published in the November issue of Geology, a journal of the Geological Society of America, suggests a major tectonic event may have triggered the rise in sea level and other environmental changes that accompanied the apparent burst of life.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

The major carbon producers data can be applied to climate models to derive the carbon input's effect on climate change impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.

Because of the warming, «there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered,» including sea level rise from melting polar ice sheets, according to the document.

Indeed, the most recent IPCC report concluded that the sea - level rise contribution associated such an event «can not be precisely quantified,» but would contribute «several tenths of a meter» of global average sea - level rise by 2100.

Looking at the lower probability but higher impact events, there is a five per cent chance that local sea - level rise will exceed 112 centimeters at Oslo and 161 centimeters in Copenhagen by 2100.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

Examples of these events include: more frequent hot days, less frequent cold days, reductions in permafrost, and sea - level rise (IPCC 2014).

Abrupt Rise in Sea Level Delayed the Transition to Agriculture in Southeastern Europe (22/03/2018) Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have detected evidence of this oceanographic event in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Sea.

«Summary of ocean current slowdowns, rapid sea level rise of east coast of North America, wavy jet streams and extreme weather events, Arctic and Antarctica connections and declining carbon sink in Amazon rainforests.

In California alone, some $ 40 billion of property and nearly 500,000 people could be affected by the sea level rise expected through mid-century, not including any additional boost from El Niño events.