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Sea-level rise accelerating, say scientists
2015-05-11 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Sea-level rise is accelerating, not declining as some have hoped, scientists said on Monday citing meltwater from Earth's ice sheets as the likely cause. In 2013, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the global mean sea level rose by 19 centimetres (7.6 inches) from 1901-2010, an average 1.7 mm (0.06 of an inch) per year. This accelerated to 3.2 mm per year between 1993 and 2010, the IPCC said in its landmark Fifth Assessment Report. But in 2014, another study raised...
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U.S. cities lag behind others in the world in meeting the challenge of sea-level rise
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In December, residents in Marin, a county in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay Area nestled across from the Golden Gate Bridge, woke up to find that some of their roadways, docks and parking lots were underwater. Unlike in past years, when the king tides -- unusually high tides that occur when the sun and moon are closer to the Earth -- were accompanied by stormy weather, residents this year were faced with just some minor flooding. But more and more, parts of California are seeing...
The rate of sea-level rise is far worse previously thought, study says
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Researchers have come up with a new and improved way of measuring the rise in the sea level, and the news is not good: The seas have risen dramatically faster over the last two decades than anyone had known. For hundreds of years, the seas were measured by more or less the equivalent of plopping a yard stick into the ocean and seeing if the ocean went up or down. But now, that method looks to be outdated. According to a new study published on Wednesday in Nature, the new method involves an...
Is sea-level rise accelerating even more than we thought?
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: The acceleration of sea-level rise since the 1990s may have been a much bigger deal than anyone realized. That's the upshot of an interesting new study in Nature, which argues that past research had overestimated the pace of global sea-level rise between 1900 and 1990 by about 30 percent. That would mean that the period of rising sea levels since 1990 -- which have been well-studied and tracked by satellites -- represents an even bigger departure from the past than once believed. (Both this...
30-year sea-level rise will vary along North Carolina coast, scientists say
2015-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Observer: A new scientific report warns that the sea is rising at widely varying rates along the North Carolina shore -- ranging by 2045 from a possible low of 4 inches at Southport to as much as 12.1 inches on the northern Outer Banks. The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission requested the 30-year forecast, released Wednesday in draft form, after the General Assembly rejected a 2010 report and ordered a moratorium on new regulations and plans related to sea-level rise. North Carolina becomes the first...
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