Sentences with phrase «why is sea level rising»

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

In which case you have to think of another reason why sea levels are rising.

All the studies of TSI that I have read show that it has not increased sufficiently to cause the magnitude of warming and sea level rise that we have seen over the last at least 30 years, which is why most climatologists discount 1.

Do you lawyers sit around and endlessly argue if it is fair to count blacks as only 3/5 of a vote and whether separate but equal facilities are acceptable??? Why do you ask scientists to reargue current sea level rise based on 13 year old data?

Is there a scientific explanation for why sea level rises during the period 1920 - 1950 were close to the same as the present rates?

You asked: «Is there a scientific explanation for why sea level rises during the period 1920 - 1950 were close to the same as the present rates?»

You are certainly right about the thickness of the Antarctic snow, and the point goes double for the ice sheet — that's why fluctuations in the AIS can cause tens of meters of sea level rise.

The two call the relationship «robust»: there might be all sorts of reasons why over a long historical period Arctic sea ice would vary from year to year, but as greenhouse gas levels rise, CO2 becomes the dominant force that makes the ice retreat.

«Protecting our water sources is a critical component of adapting to climate change impacts like drought, sea level rise, stronger storms, and warmer temperatures — which is why EPA and the Army have finalized the Clean Water Rule to protect these important waters, so we can strengthen our economy and provide certainty to American businesses.»

We are still sucking energy into system that goes into melting ice and sea level rise and that's why it's a false pause.

When we have Rep. Shimkus holding up the Bible and mentioning the story of Noah as to why sea level rise is irrelevant, we got big problems.

You ask why this is even an issue, that everyone should be concerned with rising sea levels.

Scientists in the Netherlands have found a new excuse as to why sea levels are stubbornly refusing to rise in line with Al Gore's doomsday predictions: «ocean bottom deformation.»

Explain, then, why he holds up the Bible during a Congressional hearing and uses it to «explain» why sea level rise as the result of AGW isn't a problem?

Not only that, but if rising CO2 levels were responsible for the decline of sea ice and implied effects on polar bears since 1979 (when CO2 levels were around 340 ppm), why has spring ice extent been so variable since 1989 (when the first big decline occurred) but so little changed overall since then?

«Sure, they'll probably try to confuse us with trick questions: Like why, apart from natural 1998 and 2015 El Nino spikes, satellites haven't recorded any statistically significant global warming for nearly two decades; why sea levels have been rising at a constant rate of 7 inches per century without acceleration; and why no category 3 - 5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005 — a record lull since 1900.

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That's why, for example, New York and New Jersey could experience sea - level rise that's 8 inches higher than the global average this century.

There are many reasons why sea level rise might be greater in some places than in others, but in general, when ice melts, sea level rise is less closer to the location of the ice and greater farther away.

1) Nowhere in that quote does it suggest that you've «always accepted that the sea levels have been rising» least of all that you think they've been rising for «many thousands of years» - and if they've been rising for «many thousands of years» why were coastlines so stable over the Holocene?

However, why are you concerned about whether there was a sea level minimum before the late Eemian sea level rise?

«The reason why Dr MÃ ¶ rner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on «going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world».»