Sentences with phrase «seas rose around»

Thus, if the seas rise around them, heatwaves become more prevalent, or malaria, diarrheal disease and hunger spread, they will undertake adaptation measures to protect themselves and reduce, if not eliminate, the adverse consequences.

Imagine the sea rising around you as your country literally disappears beneath your feet, where the food you grow and the water you drink is being destroyed by salt, and your last chance is to seek refuge in other lands... [1]

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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.

Apol... I know my reasoning is valid because snakes can't talk, 600 year old men can't build a boat and float 2 of every animal on the planet around for a year, the Red Sea can't part, men can't rise from the dead, and a host of other nonsense that Christians believe just can't happen.

Even if you ignore the ridiculous expense necessary to build dikes around the whole city, there's no plausible way at this point to prevent rising seas from penetrating the porous limestone underneath the city and infiltrating its fresh water supply.

A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.

However, Professor Stewart believes that over a few millennia those sea level rises could have caused the fault system beneath and around Mount Etna to completely change in behaviour, sealing up old lava flows and ultimately forcing them to emerge elsewhere on the island.

Most predictions, he says, put global sea - level rise in the coming century at around 1 metre — but more will follow.

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«Ice loss from this part of West Antarctica is already making a significant contribution to sea - level rise — around 1 mm per decade, and is actually one of the largest uncertainties in global sea - level rise predictions.

Khanna said it's likely that additional fossil evidence of punctuated sea - level rise will be found in the rock record at sites around the globe.

These proxies seemed to indicate that oxygen concentrations in the oceans rose in several steps, approaching today's sea - surface concentrations at the start of the Cambrian, around 541 million years ago — just before more - modern animals suddenly appeared and diversified.

The Philippines is one of many densely - populated nations in and around Southeast Asia that are endangered by rising sea levels caused by global warming.

While the shipping industry — which now has easy northern access between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may be cheering this «natural» development, scientists worry about the impact of the resulting rise in sea levels around the world.

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

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.

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...

Seas have risen 8 inches since the industrial revolution, and they continue to rise at a hastening pace, worsening floods and boosting storm surges near shorelines around the world.

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.

They can make big waves, but not ones that rise — as rogue waves do — three to five times as high as the waves around them and seem to come out of nowhere, out of sync with the rest of the sea, from a direction completely different from that of the wind and other waves.

Glaciers around the world are melting and contributing to sea level rise, but scientists still don't quite understand how exactly glaciers give birth to icebergs as they flow into the ocean and lose ice.

In the oscillation's positive phase, sea surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, fasea surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, faSea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, fall.

The melting of the polar ice cap would have a drastic effect: Sea level would rise by several meters around the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people who live close to coasts.

DeConto and Pollard's study was motivated by reconstructions of sea level rise during past warm periods including the previous inter-glacial (around 125,000 years ago) and earlier warm intervals like the Pliocene (around 3 million years ago).

Understanding the ocean's influence could help reveal how glaciers around the world are feeding the rising seas.

You might call this place ground zero in the effort to predict climate change, sea level rise, and the fate of coastal cities around the world.

About 15,000 years ago, the ocean around Antarctica has seen an abrupt sea level rise of several meters.

What's left to figure out is whether this is happening with other subglacial lakes around the Greenland ice sheet, as well as whether and how to incorporate the findings into models that are aimed at gauging how much Greenland might change with the warming climate and how much water it could add to the rising seas.

Scientists have developed a new method for revealing how sea levels might rise around the world throughout the 21st century to address the controversial topic of whether the rate of sea level rise is currently increasing.

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

But even though the sea level around the world will rise by an average of 80 cm, the sea level in the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland is expected to fall by 10 cm due to land uplift.

Sea levels have been rising worldwide over the past century by between 10 and 20 centimetres, as a result of melting land - ice and the thermal expansion of the oceans due to a planetary warming of around 0.5 degreeC.

The Trump administration has acted expeditiously to fill vacancies on top courts around the country, including the Supreme Court and powerful lower courts that could decide the fate of regulatory challenges and novel lawsuits, like localities suing oil companies for damages caused by sea - level rise.

During this period, we estimate that the Eurasian Ice Sheet contributed around 2.5 metres to global sea level rise» states Patton.

The field of urban planning is gaining interest as cities around the world, including nearby Houston, are facing increased exposure to weather - related risks and hazards ranging from sea level rise and flooding to temperature build - up and urban heat island effect.

The researchers determined that as the Mediterranean Sea evaporated, Earth's crust around the Strait of Gibraltar began rising up because the overlying load from the water was removed.

By around 5.33 million years ago, the rising sea level was just enough to wash over the thin land bridge at Gibraltar, resulting in a catastrophic flood that refilled the sea, he says.

A massive rise in sea level is coming, and it will trigger climate chaos around the world.

Around the world, from Alaska's remote North Slope to the island nations in the South Pacific, coastal communities are watching their shorelines slip away into the rising seas.

«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.

Green sea turtles may stop basking on beaches around the world within a century due to rising sea temperatures, a new study suggests.

Sea - level rise will affect poor and wealthy residents in California and around the world, said Katharine Mach, senior research scientist at Stanford University.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

«We are concerned about the effect of sea - level rise on fish; not the other way around,» he says.

Garner's team also accounted for the fact that sea level rises at different rates around the world, and will be particularly high on the US East Coast.

Rising seas The current warming of the seas and the associated expansion of their waters account for about one - third of sea level rise around the world.

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.

By studying sediment cores from the deep Pacific near the Philippines, paleoclimatologist Lowell Stott of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his colleagues revealed that the temperatures of the deepest seas rose by around 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) at least 1,000 years before sea - surface temperatures.

Around the world, temperatures and sea levels are rising because we're burning too much carbon.

Sea levels are rising around the world, and the latest satellite data suggests that three feet (one meter) or more is unavoidable in the next 100 - 200 years, NASA scientists said Wednesday.