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Regional partners to focus on sea-level rise in Delaware

2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

News Journal: A new partnership of scientists and federal officials from Delaware to Virginia will take a regional look at sea-level rise and how best to prepare for the impacts, including shoreline loss and increased flooding from storms. One of their first initiatives could be a regional effort to develop a real time, online, coastal flood map similar to what was developed at the University of Delaware for Delaware Bay following the Mother's Day storm of 2008. That storm, while damaging along the ocean...

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Sea-level rise is already eating our coasts

2014-05-26 14:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: We are a coastal country, says Susanne C. Moser, a convening lead author for the National Climate Assessments Coasts chapter. The U.S. has 94,000 miles of coastline and more than $1 trillion in coastal infrastructure. Coastal lifelines, such as water and energy infrastructure, and nationally important assets, such as ports, tourism, and fishing sites, all are increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise, storm surge, erosion, flooding, and related hazards.

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NC's next sea-level forecast will look 30 years ahead

2014-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

News and Observer: Hoping to avoid a repeat of the uproar sparked in 2010 when a state science panel warned of a possible 39-inch rise in sea level by the end of this century, the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission decreed Thursday that the next official forecast will look no farther than 30 years into the future. "We could add credibility to the study if we limit the time frame we're asking people to consider," commission chairman Frank Gorham III said. Many critics of the panel's earlier forecast had attacked...

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West Antarctica glaciers on path toward major sea-level rise: Studies

2014-05-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: Melting glaciers in West Antarctica are headed toward "irreversible" collapse, suggesting that rising sea levels this century may be worse than expected, and potentially catastrophic in the longer term, scientists warned yesterday. Two separate papers -- one in Science and the other from NASA and University of California, Irvine, researchers -- reported similar trends on the western swath of the ice sheet. A half-dozen unstable glaciers there have been accelerating their melt in recent decades,...

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Releasing cork in Wilkes Basin Antarctica yields unstoppable sea-level rise

2014-05-08 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) latest study shows that if East Antarcticas Wilkes Basins rim of ice lets go, it is likely to trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea-level rise for thousands of years to come. Using the ground profile under the ice, the researchers used computer ice flow simulations under the ice sheet. "East Antarctica's Wilkes Basin is like a bottle on a slant," says lead-author Matthias Mengel, "once uncorked, it...

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