Sentences with phrase «to accelerate sea level rise»

The accelerated rise of temperature and GHG concentrations from the mid-1970s is followed by accelerated sea level rise from about 1993, likely reflecting lag effects.

«As we have more of these extreme events, the impacts will then be compounded by accelerating sea level rise.»

Consequences include rising temperatures and accelerating sea level rise as well as growing risks of drought, heat waves, heavy rainfall intensified storms, and species loss.

The thing about climate change: it doesn't hit home, until it (literally) hits home — extreme storms, droughts, flash floods and accelerating sea level rise triggering more frequent coastal flooding.

Accelerating sea level rise means the islanders of Kiribati face homelessness, sooner rather than later

The cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines masked the full impact of greenhouse gases on accelerating sea level rise, according to a new study.

It is a sweeping and valuable cross-disciplinary description of ways in which climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.»

Recent estimates suggest that globally, human groundwater extraction currently exceeds rates of water capture from dam building, so that groundwater depletion is now accelerating sea level rise.)

Small islands, for example, are a paltry source of carbon emissions and yet are disproportionately affected by the consequences of global carbon overload as accelerated sea level rise threatens the very existence of low - lying islands.

The current phase of accelerated sea level rise appears to have begun in the mid / late 19th century to early 20th century, based on coastal sediments from a number of localities.

Arctic warming alters weather patterns far from the region and also accelerates sea level rise globally with the melting of the massive Greenland ice sheet.

In a new paper published in Earth Systems and Environment this month, Australian scientists Dr. Albert Parker and Dr. Clifford Ollier uncover evidence that Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) overseers appear to have been engaging in the «highly questionable» and «suspicious» practice of adjusting historical tide gauge data to show recent accelerated sea level rise where no such acceleration (or rise) exists.

Lindzen also fails to mention that further warming is very likely to substantially accelerate sea level rise, committing the world in the not too distant future, if not already, to melting a substantial portion of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets, producing sea level rise of at least several meters, quite possibly within a few centuries.

The complaint alleged that Oakland was already experiencing impacts from accelerated sea level rise due to climate change.

Professor Nils - Axel Mörner, a renowned sea - level researcher who has published more than 500 peer - reviewed articles on this topic, has been unable to find observational evidence that supports the models» predictions of dramatically accelerating sea level rise.

It also can cause many downstream dangerous consequences, including accelerated sea level rise and the release of methane, the ultra-potent GhG (greenhouse gas), which resides beneath sea ice and the Arctic permafrost.

CO2 is said to be responsible for global warming that is not occurring, for accelerated sea level rise that is not occurring, for net glacial and sea ice melt that is not occurring, for ocean acidification that is not occurring, and for increasing extreme weather that is not occurring.»

Accelerating sea level rise means the islanders of Kiribati face homelessness, sooner rather than later

«As we have more of these extreme events, the impacts will then be compounded by accelerating sea level rise.»

The combination of global warming and accelerating sea level rise from Greenland could be the trigger for catastrophic collapse in the WAIS (see, for instance, here).

The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated sea level rise as the climate changed it might already be too late to replace the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet trigger accelerated sea level rise, a die back of the Amazon rainforest removes a crucial atmospheric carbon sink, and an alteration of the ocean conveyor belt shuts down the Atlantic Gulf stream.

The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.

And in a world of accelerating sea level rise and climate change, in which farmland is being degraded and turned to desert, in which ever more land is set aside for carbon storage in the form of forest, and in which the strains of survival increase social divisions and social conflict, there is a new challenge: where will the 2bn climate refugees find new homes?

As the levels of heat - trapping gases rise, we are all witnessing the results: Earth's average temperature increasing, record breaking heat waves, melting ice sheets, accelerating sea level rise, oceans turning more acidic, and storms becoming more intense.

These are outcomes that would irreversibly change regional climate patterns, disrupt agriculture, precipitate greater flooding in some places, more sustained droughts in others, and accelerate sea level rise.

They say the accelerating sea level rise is due to ocean warming and melting ice sheets.

Climate change is accelerating the sea level rise.