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Has veteran climate scientist James Hansen foretold the loss of all coastal cities with latest study?
2016-03-24 02:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: James Hansens name looms large over any history that will likely be written about climate change. Whether you look at the hard science, the perils of political interference or modern day activism, Dr Hansen is there as a central character. In a 1988 US Senate hearing, Hansen famously declared that the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now. Towards the end of his time as the director of NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen described how government...
Study: 70% of coastal Northeast could adapt to rising seas
2016-03-19 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Press: Hampton Roads and other threatened coastal communities have long been bracing for sea-level rise, struggling to figure out how to adapt. But a new study published Monday suggests that up to 70 percent of the coast from Virginia to the Canadian border is actually more likely to shift and change rather than drown. Barrier islands will migrate landward, get carved into dunes or split into inlets, the study says. Low-lying forests will evolve into salt marshes, and salt marshes will build up and,...
As U.S. Coastal Cities Swell, Rising Seas Threaten Millions
2016-03-14 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A growing number of Americans are moving into homes nestled between the idyllic beaches of the Florida Keys -- part of a national trend that's seeing coastal populations swell even as the seas swell dangerously around them. That combination of rising populations and rising seas could see millions of Americans living in homes that flood regularly during the decades ahead, according to a nationwide analysis published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. That's unless steps are taken to...
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Increased flooding in US coastal cities caused by climate change, study says
2016-02-23 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rising sea levels are putting increasing pressure on US coastal cities, with a new analysis showing that human-driven climate change is to blame for three-quarters of the coastal flooding events over the past decade. The Climate Central research shows that coastal flooding days have more than doubled in the US since the 1980s, the primary drivers of which have been the warming of the atmosphere and oceans. The findings are based on a separate study, released on Monday, that found the Earths seas...
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The human fingerprints on coastal floods
2016-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: There are human fingerprints on thousands of U.S. coastal floods -- and countless more the world over. We have known for a long time that sea level is rising. The link to global warming has been both intuitive and evident. Temperatures rise, and satellites watch glaciers and ice sheets shrink; networks of robotic buoys sample ocean waters as they heat and expand. We have also known that coastal floods are increasing. The link to sea level rise is clear. A higher starting level means that the...
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