Sentences with phrase «to increase sea level»

When powerful storms combine with increased sea level rise and intense coastal development, they provide the ingredients for massive destruction, loss of life and major economic losses.

It won't increase sea levels, and it means we'll have easier access to shipping routes!

That would still commit us to increasing temperature for about a century and increasing sea levels for hundreds of years.

Second, melting land ice flows into the ocean, also increasing sea level across the globe.

Scientists are using satellites to identify where increasing sea levels could result in the most destructive storm surge as hurricanes grow more powerful due to climate change.

Each five - year delay in limiting global carbon emissions into the atmosphere now will increase sea level rise for the next three centuries.

How will several inches of increased sea level along the north east US affect the economy of the country?

«We know that from 2000 to 2010 this glacier alone increased sea level by about 1 mm.

In central North America, the cooler winters were primarily due to changes in the northerly winds driven by increased sea level pressure on the west coast of North America.

Drought, loss of coral biodiversity, loss of 30 % of all species on earth and increased cyclone activity combined with rapidly increasing sea level all contribute to the most likely results of even a 3 °C rise.

Drilling and dating of submerged fossil coral reefs provide a clear record of increasing sea levels as the ice melted.

Melting can be rapid: as the last ice age ended, the disappearance of the ice sheet covering North America increased sea level by more than a metre per century at times.

An additional surge of ice into the ocean will further increase the sea level, which subsequently may affect the buttressing effect of the ice itself.

Due to the significant thickness of these ice sheets, global warming analysis typically focuses on the loss of ice mass from the ice sheets increasing sea level rise, and not on a reduction in the surface area of the ice sheets.

Increased sea levels decrease this slope, slow the drainage, and exacerbate flooding, slightly inland and right at the coast.

So, the positive feedback between melt and velocities implies that more melt leads to higher velocities, which bring in more ice from cold regions to warm regions which increases the melt and hence the velocity etc, with as a final result a rapid loss of ice and hence an enhanced increased sea level.

The impacts it described, which included increasing sea level rise, were totally uncontroversial (even amongst skeptics).

«Defendants have inflicted and continue to inflict injuries upon the People that require the People to incur extensive costs to protect public and private property, against increased sea level rise, inundation, storm surges, and flooding.»

A glacier the size of California in East Antarctica is in danger of melting away, which could lead to an extreme thaw increases sea levels by about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) worldwide if the glacier vanishes, a new study finds.

Rob, if the temperature were to keep increasing sea level would also rise.

19 While there may be some potential benefits to an increased global temperature... Most are not positive: Higher temperatures evaporate water, and expose soil Leads to «dustbowls» when dry soil blows away Warmer ocean water could lead to stronger hurricanes Warm water expands... which would increase sea level around the world POSSIBLE EFFECTS

As with everything they do, the IPCC extrapolate their perceived trend forward, predicting increased sea level rise of 2 feet — far from Gore» s ridiculous 20 feet.

Mind you, as I said increasing sea levels are an indicator of global warming, since ice melting in Greenland, for example, flows into the ocean.

«Floating ice doesn't change sea level at all,» Trenberth said, «but the consequences of this may well end up increasing sea level quite substantially in the long term.»

«We know that from 2000 to 2010 this glacier alone increased sea level by about 1 mm», said Ian Joughin, of the Polar Science Centre at the University of Washington, who led the research.

Greenland ice is melting at a record pace, the meltdown will continue to contribute to rapidly increasing sea level rise.

On St. Paul, at least, the more likely suspect is climate change, though it's also possible that the final straw for mammoths here was habitat loss: With increasing sea levels, the island may have become too small to sustain its megafauna population.

One would be to get the state to routinely incorporate projections of increased sea levels and heavy downpours when building big infrastructure projects.

«We know that from 2000 to 2010 this glacier alone increased sea level by about 4/100 of an inch (1 mm).

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.

The disasters like Katrina and Maria and Harvey, the repeated violent storms and increasing sea levels is devastating populated areas like the Outer Banks, Rockaway, Hoboken and the Jersey Shore.

And, as you explain in your book, the 50 - foot rise in sea level that turns Manhattan into Venice takes place in two stages — a «First Pulse,» when the sea rises 10 feet in scarcely a decade in the mid-21st century, followed by a catastrophic «Second Pulse» a few decades later that increases sea levels by 40 more feet.

As the ice sheets melt due to climate change, they have the potential not only to increase sea level, but also pollute the environment around them through the release of other anthropogenic pollutants that have accumulated in them.»