Sentences with phrase «there's sea level rise»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«If it had fallen elsewhere not as snow but as rain, it would have contributed to sea level rise,» says Thomas.

According to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annually.

«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.

If this Antarctic instability occurs, the future risk to New York City is dominated by sea level rise.

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.

I had always been interested to know what prompted that to happen but I believe the dates of sea levels rising — and how they correspond to the volcano physically changing — offer a potential explanation.

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.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

To forecast sea level rise, a flotilla of robot subs must map the unseen bottom of a melting ice shelf — if they are not sunk by it

Explores environmental justice issues related to climate change and sea level rise's effects on island nations, and the resulting predicament of climate refugees.

«That necessitates taking a flexible approach, where possible: building for the half foot to 1.3 feet of sea - level rise that are likely by 2050, while plotting out options that will depend on what we learn in the next few decades and how sea level rises beyond that.»

«If we end up in a world with 2 or 2.5 meters (6.6 to 8 feet) of global sea level rise in 2100, that's a lot to adapt to,» Kopp added.

He is the principal investigator for a mission called Oceans Melting Greenland (affectionately known as OMG), a five - year effort to assess the extent to which warmer oceans are melting Greenland's glaciers, and how this information can be used to better estimate global sea level rise.