Sentences with phrase «term coastal flooding»

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To set that figure we need to undertake a sea defence review, similar to the military defence review, which would set out what we actually need to do in terms of reasonable protection against coastal flooding and erosion and how much it will cost.

Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»

The team's research, supported by the National Science Foundation and a NASA graduate fellowship, began with a study of coastal lake sediments in Japan to establish long - term records of tsunami flooding.

«A fundamental rethinking of our built environment,» and the long - term modifications that might be needed to protect New York City from coastal flooding, «is a massive, massive undertaking,» Cuomo said yesterday.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

On a different (coastal) flooding front, the issues remain the same, with politics and sociology seemingly trumping science and unavoidable long - term reality.

Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.

The «social cost of carbon» was developed in large part to compare long - term costs from coastal flooding and other impacts of emissions of climate - warming carbon dioxide with upfront costs to the economy from curbing the burning of fossil fuels, the main source of such emissions.

These risks are three-fold: the increased number of events like floods and cyclones; droughts in some parts of the country and in long - term effects of coastal erosion affecting a large portion of the population.