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Climate change already accelerating sea level rise, study finds
2016-08-10 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] BOULDER, Colo. — Greenhouse gases are already having an accelerating effect on sea level rise, but the impact has so far been masked by the cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, according to a new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Satellite observations, which began in 1993, indicate that the rate of sea level rise has held fairly steady at about 3 millimeters per year. But the expected acceleration due to climate …
Food shortages and sea level rise US voters' top climate change concerns
2016-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Diminishing food and water security and ruinous sea level rise are the leading climate change concerns of a section of the American electorate that is aghast at the lack of discussion of global warming during the presidential debate. A Guardian US survey of its readers found that pressure on food and water supplies is considered the most important consequence of climate change. Sea level rise, which is set to inundate coastal areas currently occupied by millions of Americans, is second on the...
Sea Level Rise Could Wash Away Our Natural and Cultural History
2016-07-02 08:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A 50-minute subway ride connects downtown Manhattan with the Broad Channel neighborhood in outer Queens. On each end sits a National Park Service site that showcases the diversity of what parks can be and how theyre united in common challenges. On the Manhattan end, the weathered green hue of the Statue of Liberty looms over the blue waters of New York Harbor, a beacon of hope to the world over. The hulking monument greeted more than 12 million immigrants who passed through its neighbor to the...
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Sea Level Rise Could Help Marshes Ease Flooding
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Along the mid-Atlantic coast, where waters are rising quickly, marshes are on the march, consuming forestland, farms and yards. "Habitats are changing fast here,' said Matt Whitbeck, a biologist at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, where dead trees still jut from young marshes. Newly published modeling shows that a looming acceleration in sea level rise could further accelerate the spread of marshes worldwide. A ghost forest in Bass River, N.J., where marshland is replacing...
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: 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 next, flooding many of the world's populated coastal areas. Last month in Greenland, more than a tenth of the ice sheets surface was melting in the unseasonably warm spring sun, smashing 2010s record for a thaw so early in the year....
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