Sentences with phrase «warm coastal country»

Salamander Shores, with sensational views of Port Stephens, provides a warm coastal country atmosphere that offers a unique personality and openess

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Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that produces a world well on the way to centuries of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end of estimates of carbon dioxide's heat - trapping power.

The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns.

Warmer ocean temperatures could also increase the destructive potential of cyclones and storm surges to which the country's coastal areas are already prone.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other climate scientists regard global warming of two degrees Celsius as catastrophic, bringing water stress to arid and semi-arid countries, more floods in low - lying coastal areas, coastal erosion in small island states, and the elimination of up to 30 percent of animal and plant species.

This technical document seeks to quantify how a 1 - meter sea - level, as a consequence of global warming, would affect coastal wetlands in 76 developing countries and territories, taking into account how much of wetlands would be submerged and how likely the wetlands would move inland as the coastline recedes.

It was the warming of the polar ice caps that became the greatest concern, since this was the first tangible evidence, and will have the biggest initial impact upon coastal cities and low lying countries.