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Warming may mean sea levels 30 cms higher

January 14, 2019

Warming may mean sea levels 30 cms higher An Irish railway station, built with sea level rise in mind. Image: By Sarah777, via Wikipedia Commons Warmer oceans mean higher tides, bigger storm surges and heavier rainstorms. With ocean temperatures rising ever faster, sea levels 30 cms higher are possible by 2100. LONDON, 14 January, 2019 […]

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Rising Seas Swamp Scotland

September 8, 2017

Rising Seas Swamp Scotland Since April the sea around Scotland has risen by an average of 43 centimeters, reports the Sunday Herald, a rate of rise that far exceeds even the worst-case projections of climate scientists. Caught by surprise, the government is preparing emergency evacuation plans for residents of coastal areas and other low-lying areas […]

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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat

May 7, 2016

Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the […]

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Vanishing Island Nations: The Case for the Maldives

January 6, 2016

Vanishing Island Nations: The Case for the Maldives According to the Environmental Protection Agency, global sea levels have risen by about 7.5 inches since 1870. This impacts some countries more severely than others. Island countries, such as the Maldives, Kiribati, Palau, Micronesia and Seychelles are the weakest link in the chain with respect to climate […]

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Cap Fossil Fuel Production Now!

September 9, 2015

Cap Fossil Fuel Production Now! Climate scientists are in broad agreement that there are enough fossil fuels in the Earth’s crust that, if they were all burned, the result would be dramatically rising sea levels, extreme weather, plummeting food production, dying seas, and a mass extinction of species (possibly including our own). Therefore the only […]

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World’s Oceans Could Rise Higher, Sooner, Faster Than Most Thought Possible

July 30, 2015

World’s Oceans Could Rise Higher, Sooner, Faster Than Most Thought Possible New research shows that consensus estimates of sea level increases may be underestimating threat; new predictions would see major coastal cities left uninhabitable by next century ‘Roughly 10 feet of sea level rise—well beyond previous estimates—would render coastal cities such as New York, London, […]

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Nonlinear: New York, London, Shanghai underwater in 50 years?

July 27, 2015

Nonlinear: New York, London, Shanghai underwater in 50 years? Those under the impression that climate change is advancing at a constant and predictable rate don’t understand the true dynamics of the issue. The rate of increase of the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, went from 0.75 parts per million […]

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