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Storm surges, rising seas could doom Pacific islands this century
2013-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As ice caps melt and sea levels rise, islands around the world could eventually become completely submerged, like real-world cities of Atlantis. Scientists have determined that the tides could consume low-lying islands in the next 50 to 150 years. But they'll become uninhabitable well before they're underwater, and that day might not be in the too distant future. A study by the U.S. Geological Survey released yesterday finds that the two northwestern Hawaiian atolls of Midway and Laysan and...
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Rising Seas Swallow 8 Cities in These Climate Change GIFs
2013-04-05 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Climate change and global warming may cause sea levels to rise and flood coastal cities across the world. Over the past century, the Global Mean Sea Level has risen by 4 to 8 inches. And according to estimates by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (PDF), it will keep rising between 8 inches and 6.6 feet by 2100. How will the world look if that happens? In November of 2012, The New York Times published interactive maps displaying the effects of the sea level rising, in a series titled...
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Map plots rising seas street by Jersey street
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: While superstorm Sandy revealed the Northeast's vulnerability, a new map by New Jersey scientists suggests how rising seas could make future storms even worse. The map shows ocean waters surging more than a mile into communities along Raritan Bay, engulfing nearly all of New Jersey's barrier islands and covering northern sections of the New Jersey Turnpike and land surrounding the Port Newark Container Terminal. Such damage could occur under a scenario in which sea levels rise 6 feet--or a...
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East Coast Faces Rising Seas From Slowing Gulf Stream
2013-02-12 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Experts on the sea level rise triggered by climate change have long known that it will proceed faster in some places than others. The mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. is one of them, and the reason -- in theory, anyway -- is that global warming should slow the flow of the Gulf Stream as it moves north and then west toward northern Europe. Now there's a smoking gun that appears to validate the theory. A study in the February Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans ties the measured acceleration of...
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Rising seas shift bay agency's mission
2013-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Leadership changes in regional agencies rarely attract attention, so it wasn't a big story last year when new people stepped into the top two posts at the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. But this is an era when the commission's original reason for being - to keep vast portions of San Francisco Bay from being filled by subdivisions and land-hungry local governments - is less of a threat than the rising sea levels that almost certainly lie ahead. This ecological shift demands a response,...
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