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0.7-Meter Minimum Global Sea-Level Rise by 2300, Even With Paris Agreement

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 22:03:37 +0000

“Every delay in peaking emissions by five years between 2020 and 2035 could mean additional 20 cm of sea-level rise in the end—which is the same amount the world’s coasts have experienced since the beginning of the pre-industrial era,” asserts Matthias Mengel from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). This means that even […]

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Here’s How World’s Biggest Cities Will Look Like If Temperature Goes 2 Degrees Higher

Mila Luleva — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:34:03 +0000

Study shows that with 2 degrees rise in global temperatures, the world’s megacities might find themselves under water. Scientists from Climate Central, Princeton, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, modeled the effect of 2 and 4 degrees increase in temperatures, and the resulting sea level rise. They found that the homes of 280 million people will […]

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Climate Predictions for the Year 3015

Mila Luleva — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:14:11 +0000

Scientists continuously develop more detailed and more powerful climate models, which make much more accurate and useful predictions for the state of our environment in the near future. But how much can we really extrapolate the results for the future- 10, 100, 1000 years? Now that pretty much everyone, with a few confused exceptions, has agreed […]

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Sea Level Rise Not Just a Theory in Northeastern US

Benji Jerew — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 08:19:32 +0000

Ask any climate change denier about sea level rise, and you’ll get the usual mishmash of “lacking anecdotal evidence” and “normal cycle” nonsense, instead of pointing to the facts. On the Northeast Coast of the United States, however, sea level rise is a very real and measurable thing. It’s not just a theory that Northeastern […]

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Sea-Level Rise – Five Crucial Consequences

Mila Luleva — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:42:35 +0000

Sea level rise results in flooding, everyone knows that much. But this goes way beyond only that, and to demonstrate it, here is a list of five additional, and equally important, consequences of lifting up that sea-level bench mark. All scientific evidence points towards inevitable temperature increase, which results in accelerated polar glaciers melt. The first […]

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Coastal Residents Facing Climate Change – Fight or Flight?

Benji Jerew — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 07:44:22 +0000

By now, we can clearly see it’s a fact that climate change is changing a lot of things and, at least for some, that animal fight or flight mechanism is kicking in. Some of the climate change facts aren’t readily visible, such as disappearing fish stocks or methane plumes in the Arctic. On the other hand, […]

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Climate Change Preparedness – Coastal Residents are “Not Ready” for Sea Level Rise

Benji Jerew — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:33:51 +0000

There seem to be no end to the amount of ignorance being displayed by the general public when it comes to the real risks involved as climate change continues to worsen. Take, for example, sea level rise, which climate change scientists estimate may rise by anywhere from a foot to forty inches by the year […]

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Climate Change – West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt Won’t Stop Anytime Soon

Benji Jerew — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:17:23 +0000

According to a recent NASA study, climate change is showing its effects on the West Antarctic ice sheet, and it won’t stop. Watching the West Antarctic ice sheet disappear won’t be something worth a month-long trip, but perhaps take a couple hundred years. Even watching the annual ice breakup is a few weeks, but the […]

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Sea Level Rise Reduced by Cutting Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Mila Luleva — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:58:53 +0000

New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that cutting down short-lived climate pollutants, such as methane and soot, could greatly reduce the rate of sea level rise. The study led by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, estimates that 30 to 60% reduction in emissions of these pollutants by […]

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Antarctica’s Ice Cover Thickens Due to Climate Change, Affects Sea Level Rise

Mila Luleva — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:23:44 +0000

Scientists explain why sea ice around Antarctica is becoming thicker despite the rise in global temperatures in a new study published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience. During the summer months, ice sheets melt and cause upwelling of fresh water. This water floats on top of the warmer salty water in the form of a […]

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Interactive Map Predicts the Locations Where Seas Will Rise

Mila Luleva — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:48:30 +0000

Mahé Perrette, a scientist at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, created a new interactive world map, which identifies areas where sea level rise will be the greatest by 2100. It has been already established that over the past 100 years sea level has been rising unevenly due to the several processes influencing […]

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Assessing Sea Level Rise Caused by Ice Sheet Melting More Accurate than Ever

Mila Luleva — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:45 +0000

Research from university of Bristol revealed sea level rises a lot faster than predicted by IPCC in their Forth Assessment Report, due to the melting of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The unique study used structured expert elicitation, combined with experts’ opinions, to estimate the total sea level rise in case of a complete melt […]

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Sea Level Rises Faster Due to Warmer Temperatures in West Antarctica

Mila Luleva — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:43:04 +0000

Previous predictions about rates of sea level rise might have been wrong, according to new research. The results indicate that West Antarctica is warming twice as fast hitting the 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3F) average temperature increase since the 1950s. Such findings show that ice sheets are much more likely to melt, which will consequently cause a […]

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