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Melting Antarctic Ice May Trigger Unstoppable Sea-Level Rise
2014-05-05 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Yet another melting ice formation in Antarctica may dump so much water into the ocean that it could trigger an unstoppable rise in sea level for thousands of years to come, a new study published in Nature Climate Change revealed. The current region threatening to raise our seas is the Wilkes Basin, the largest region of marine ice on rocky ground in East Antarctica. Currently, only a rim of ice at the coast holds the ice behind in place. "East Antarctica's Wilkes Basin is like a bottle on a...
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Assembly bill seeks to create planning database for sea-level rise
2014-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Assembly Bill 2516 would create a Planning for Sea Level Rise Database to help prevent agencies from reinventing the wheel when studying rising sea levels. Arguing that state agencies have not done enough planning to respond to rising sea levels, Assemblyman Richard Gordon, D-Menlo Park, has introduced legislation that would establish a database of planning efforts for sea level rise in California. Assembly Bill 2516 would require state and local agencies responding to the anticipated rise...
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Scientists warn that newly discovered Greenland melting could accelerate sea-level rise
2014-03-17 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea-level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study. Regional warming has triggered newly discovered ice melting in a large portion of northeastern Greenland. The area, marked NEGIS, covers about 16 percent of the island's thick ice sheet. (Most-rapid melting is indicated in red.) Map courtesy of Ohio State University. The...
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Sea-level predictions don't dampen Florida real estate
2014-03-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: JEREMY HOBSON, HOST: And we just heard Senator Nelson there talking about the effect of the climate change on Florida. Well, this week, we are running a series of reports looking at the impact of rising seas on South Florida. Today, we want to look at how the real estate market is reacting there. From the HERE AND NOW contributors network, WLRN's Karen Rundlet reports. KAREN RUNDLET, BYLINE: Plenty of South Florida realtors would describe the region's housing market as recharged. Single-family...
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Report: Sea-level rise threatens Malibu infrastructure
2014-01-12 14:38:49| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Malibu Times: The destruction caused by coastal storms in Malibu and its neighboring communities along the Pacific coast is anticipated to increase as ocean levels rise throughout the 21st century, according to a recent study by the City of Los Angeles and USC. "The next step is crafting policies that reduce risk and protect the public today," Jonathan Parfrey, the executive director of Climate Resolve, an LA-based nonprofit that works with the government to help prepare for climate change, told...
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