He is an expert on sea level rise and methods of adapting to it.
Even without pricing in global warming or sea level rise, this is a shocking and unsustainable number.
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Excess carbon dioxide is accelerating global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and overall climate change.
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Much global warming alarm centers upon concerns that melting glaciers will cause a disastrous sea level rise.
Second. a big misunderstanding about probable sea level rise comes from a misreading of the 2007 IPCC report.
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Moreover, the risks are rising inexorably: sea level rise is happening at an accelerated rate along the East Coast.
Sea level rise, the loss of biodiversity, acidification and pollution are only a few dangers threatening our seas and coasts.
Dr. CORELL: Well, if we get a meter of sea level rise, I'll step off my front step into water.
The contribution from Alaska's glaciers to the worldwide sea level rise "is even more that what we had expected, " he added.
Already, average sea level rise has doubled in a decade due to the destabilisation of the Arctic and Greenland ice shelves.
However, the scientists stressed that sea level rise in line with their projections could still make some islands in the Pacific uninhabitable.
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United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) computer models project approximately 15 inches of sea level rise during the 21st century.
The extra 0.3 millimeters of fictitious sea level rise will add up to 1.2 inches over the course of the 21st century.
Sixty percent of Bangladesh disappears with one meter of sea level rise.
The researchers also included projections for sea level rise in Europe that includes the effects of thermal expansion, ice melt and storm surges.
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In a non-linear problem, the most relevant number for projecting sea level rise is the doubling time for the rate of mass loss.
But in the meantime the process continues, and climate change may ultimately put restoration hopes out of reach by accelerating sea level rise.
In its own estimates, the IPCC predicts that by 2080, millions more people will experience flooding every year due to sea level rise.
That leaves a maximum six or seven inches of sea level rise remaining from human-induced warming (probably less), which is pretty small beer.
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And with scierntists predicting an average sea level rise of between 38 and 55cm by 2100, some small island states could disappear beneath the waves.
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Yet Tuvalu is likely to lose its entire territory if there's severe sea level rise, so it considers that 2C could be fatal for the nation.
Nils-Axel Morner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University, documented a dramatic deceleration of sea level rise during the past 40 years.
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We must understand and adapt to a changing climate, including more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, drought and floods, and continued sea level rise.
Whatever the dispute about the rates and amounts of sea level rise, it is evident that coastal populations and ecosystems will need to adapt to these changes.
That the Valley has joined the Maldives (with somewhat less urgency) on the list of those threatened by potential sea level rise is actually a good thing.
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And considering that the Federal government seems both unwilling and unable to do anything about sea level rise, spending those billions is pretty much already a foregone conclusion.
Scientists compare annual accumulation to the volume of ice lost to sea each year to calculate the ice sheet's overall mass balance and its contribution to sea level rise.
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"Even though they seem far away, changes in the polar regions could have an impact on both hemispheres, with sea level rise and changes in climate patterns, " he said.
They also want the UN to monitor and assess losses, and to find new approaches for addressing loss and damage, particularly for slow-onset events like, say, sea level rise.
Environmental factors already influence investment decisions to some degree, as corporations and indeed individuals have to take projections of things such as sea level rise and water availability into account.
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