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Slower sea level rise linked to El Nino and natural weather patterns
2014-03-25 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Slower sea level rise in the past decade is due to the influence of natural weather patterns and especially the El Nino cycle, scientists say. Climate change is causing sea level rise both through thermal expansion, where the sea expands as it warms, and through melting of glaciers and ice sheets, which is adding to the amount of water in the sea. But natural variation can change the rate of sea level rise from year to year. A particularly important short-term influence is the cyclical El...
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La Nina Effect Curbed Sea Level Rise, say Experts
2014-03-24 06:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
French Tribune: Sea level rise is considered as one of the biggest indicators of climate change. In this process, water expands and parts of Greenland and Antarctica, Himalayan glaciers to the Alps are melting. But climate scientists got confused when they got to know that the rate of sea level rise has decreased from 3.4 mm in 1994-2002 to 2.4 millimetres a year in 2003-2011. Many considered the decline as a pause in global warming. Such is not the case, said experts in the journal Nature Climate Change....
New Greenland Ice Melt Fuels Sea Level Rise Concerns
2014-03-17 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Stability in the rapidly changing Arctic is a rarity. Yet for years researchers believed the glaciers in the frigid northeast section of Greenland, which connect to the interior of the country's massive ice sheet, were resilient to the effects of climate change that have affected so much of the Arctic. But new data published Sunday in Nature Climate Change reveals that over the past decade, the region has started rapidly losing ice due to a rise in air and ocean temperatures caused in part by...
Combatting sea level rise requires complex policy planning
2014-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
South Coast Today: Pressure for governments to find new ways to combat climate change is rising with the tide. That's the subject of a book by UMass Dartmouth Professor Chad McGuire about law and policy considerations governments must take when facing sea level rise. While many may think that simply renourishing beaches or building more sea walls could solve the problem, McGuire says the challenge is far more complex. "The problem with sea level rise is that it presents us with a new reality, a new set of...
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Sea Level and Risk of Flooding Rising Rapidly in Mid-Atlantic
2013-12-12 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: During the 20th century, sea levels along the highly populated U.S. Mid-Atlantic coastline between New York and Virginia rose faster than in any other century during the past 4,300 years, according to a new study. And as those sea levels continue to increase as a result of global warming and local land elevation changes, the risks of coastal flooding will dramatically escalate. The study, by geoscientists at Rutgers and Tufts Universities and published in the new journal "Earth's Future,' took...
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