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Scientists say New York City already faces much worse flood risks due to rising seas
2015-09-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In a new study, scientists say that the risk of major hurricane or storm-driven flooding in New York City is already considerably higher than it was 1,000 or even 100 years ago, thanks both to a considerable rise in sea level, but also, they say, to changes in the nature of storms. We see more intense storms with a greater ability to produce high storm surges at The Battery in NYC during the anthropogenic era than during the pre-anthropogenic era, the researchers write. The paper, just out...
Rising Seas and More Intense Storms Likely to Cause Major Flooding Events
2015-09-21 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Rising seas and increasingly frequent and intense storms along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts could interact to produce alarming spikes in the extent and duration of floods, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. The study projects that coastal flooding could possibly shoot up several hundred-fold by 2100, from the Northeast to Texas. Even the study's most conservative calculations, based on greatly reduced greenhouse gas emissions over the next 85 years, suggest a 4- to 75-fold...
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Burning all fossil fuels would 'eliminate' Antarctic ice, lift seas 58m: study
2015-09-11 20:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Burning all available fossil fuels would "eliminate" the giant ice sheets of Antarctica and lift sea levels by 58 metres, enough to inundate major coastal cities, according to US and Europe-based researchers. The combustion of available coal, oil and gas reserves would result in 10,000 billion tonnes of carbon emissions, and ensure West and East Antarctic ice sheets are destabilised and would ultimately melt, the study published on Saturday in Science Advances found. While the process could...
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Burning all fossil fuels could thaw Antarctica, raise seas: study
2015-09-11 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Burning all the world's fossil fuel reserves could thaw the entire Antarctic ice sheet and push up world sea levels by more than 50 meters (160 feet), over thousands of years, an international study said on Friday. Such a melt, also eliminating the far smaller ice sheet on Greenland, is a worst case of climate change that would inundate cities from New York to Shanghai and change maps of the world with much of the Netherlands, Bangladesh or Florida under water. "Burning the currently attainable...
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The 'End of the high seas', or we watch the seas die
2015-08-16 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: The left side of this photo shows a healthy reef at Heron Island. The right side shows an example of a degraded reef off Townsville after attack from Crown Credit: Reproduced with Kind permission of Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Global Change…
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