Sentences with phrase «why is sea level»

The question I hope the appropriate scientific community is addressing is why is sea level rising 50 % faster than the modeling projected?

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On the way down I was shown the lines in the rock where Noah's flood rose to, which explained why there were sea fossils in the rock at these high levels so far from the sea.

Most tour groups start in Cusco, which is why people become ill since they go from sea level to 3400m within hours.

Scientists need to better understand why and how fast the ice shelves are disintegrating so that they can better estimate future sea - level rise.

The researchers assume that the destruction of the early iron - magnesium rich continental crust was crucial for the formation of the silicon - rich continents and that it was the reason why these continents could rise above sea level to a larger extent.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

Scientists aim to find out why an Alaska glacier is ignoring all climate signals as it advances to the sea — and what that means for sea levels around the world.

It's important for climate scientists to understand why sea levels, which have been steadily rising, might periodically fall, or rise at faster rates, said Fasullo.

So understanding why you would have this brief hiatus in sea - level rise is really key to our understanding of the climate system and being able to monitor the system,» he said.

«Every few months we check in on sea level and try to get some idea as to what's happening and why.

The reasons why the projected sea - level rise at Copenhagen is more severe than at Oslo are complicated, but are primarily related to the effects that we have discussed: Differing rates of crustal rebound and local gravitational changes at the two cities.

«Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.

Keep in mind though that I'm an avid hiker and mountain biker in the summer, and I live at high elevation (7500 feet above sea level), so I get a good deal of daily sun, which is why my levels jumped from 35 - 52 ng / ml after a couple months of daily summer sun.

Climate change and the subsequent rising sea levels are the culprit, but the film focuses on the devastating effect it is having and will have on the Kiribati citizens rather than the science behind why it's happening.

The Golden Gate, at sea level, produces rivers of fog, but fog comes through the Russian River Valley — which is why Santa Rosa was foggy Thursday morning — over the low spot in the hills near Muir Woods, over Twin Peaks in San Francisco, over the hills near Daly City and down the hills near San Francisco's Bayview district.

With an elevation about one mile above sea level, see first - hand why Denver is nicknamed the Mile High City.

That is why, as stated in the paper, the sea level reconstruction appears to suggest that temperatures during AD 500-1000 were not as warm as indicated in the M08 reconstruction (about 0.2 C or so cooler on average).

So why is it that overall during El Nino events global average sea level goes up and during La Nina event sea level goes down?

«Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.

It is commonly believed that global warming (global heating) can not be stopped, so why not begin laying the ground work down that would help to endure a world with elevated sea levels and no ice caps?

Why is that we see a reccord high sea ice level in the Antarktic area when global temperature is rising.

Why b is then negative for the fit to the overall observed sea - level rise remains a bit of an enigma, though — in our paper we interpret this as a time lag, and I still think this is the likely answer.

Why would the DERIVATIVE of the sea level be similar to the temperature anomaly when (at least according to the IPCC report, the sea level rise is largely due to the thermal expansion of the oceans (1.6 + -0.5 mm / yr).

Why hasn't anyone projected what sea levels would be like if the polar ice caps were completely melted away?

[Aug. 9, 8:04 p.m. Updated Joe Romm has predictably assailed my view of Arctic sea ice trends and their implications, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene's warmest stretch, didn't have a greenhouse - gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).

I'll also be writing more on why sea levels do not rise uniformly (and may be falling in a few places) even as there is high confidence in rising seas in a warming world.

pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.

Why are there at all different reconstructions of the global sea level history?

Why sea level rise is expected to be nonlinear?

So why say «rising sea level depends on melting at very specific locations of which by far the most important is Antarctica».

However, here is simplistic argument why sea level rise is linear, at best.

If satellites show that Greenland ice melt has accelerated so much the last few years, why do satellites also show that sea level is going down since 2005?

henning, # 143 (in which you refer to my post # 141), I'm not sure why you think that simply avoiding a 70m sea level rise would be something to celebrate.

Joe Romm has predictably assailed my rejection of his «death spiral» depiction of Arctic sea ice trends, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene's warmest stretch, didn't have a greenhouse - gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).

Why should warming during the current Holocene Interglacial be significantly different / less than during the previous Eemian Interglacial (MIS5e), when sea levels were, per the IPCC's own comments, above modern levels or for that matter above the purported mid-Holocene highstand?

If there's any doubt why continued melting is interesting: it means sea level will keep rising even with aggressive mitigation 8 ^ .

It seems from what I read currently, some are suggesting there was an overall rise in humidity and that is why sea level didn't rise.

The more useful question to have asked is why was Sandy's storm surge double that of recent hurricanes, hurricanes that were far more intense but with similar sea levels?

Linear trends are appropriate for the time period after 1990 where the data are described well by a linear trend plus interannual noise (that's why we show a linear trend for the satellite sea level in our paper), but they don't capture the longer - term climate evolution very well, e.g. the nearly flat temperatures up to 1980.

That's why I suggest you, or others here, go to his site and ask those questions about calving and Greenland's net loss rate that already contributes a significant fraction of sea - level rise.

Sally B also wrote a great paper that showed why the sea level in the vicinity of the Maldives, is anomalous.

We know what's happening (sea levels are rising as the Earth warms, for example), and we have a good idea why it's happening (despite deniers» claims), but we don't know the long - term effects.

I mean if we have all this sea - level rise, then why aren't these islands all submerged?

Billions are being spent on all sorts of peripheral work or sea levels, Arctic sea ice extent, etc. as well as model studies on CAGW, so why is no one working on the basics?

That's why, in the past, Northern Hemisphere temperatures naturally rose at rates of 2 degrees C per decade and sea levels rose 5 meters per century while CO2 stayed constant.

A recent paper by Rovere et al. (2016) provides a helpful overview of the definitions of sea level, why it varies and how it is measured.

Why is there a question that we are causing sea levels to rise?

Why was the rate of sea level rise higher during the 1900 - 1950 period (~ 2 mm / yr, Holgate, 2007; Jevrejeva et al., 2008) than it has been during the 1958 - 2014 period (1.42 mm / yr, Frederiske et al., 2018) given the anthropogenic CO2 emissions rates during the 1958 - 2014 period?

In other words, why aren't sea levels rising fast enough?

That's why I used the expression «represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment» (temperature increase by 2100 of up to 6.4 C, increased droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, extreme high sea level plus secondary effects, such as crop failures, spread of vector diseases, loss of drinking water from melting glaciers, etc. all as listed in IPCC AR4).