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Sea-Level Rise Too Fast to Reverse Climate Change: Study
2013-12-03 23:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: By the time climate change reduces crop yields or frequently floods New York City subways, it would be too late to avert damage without better forecasting tools, a panel of scientists said in a report released today. Dangerous rises in the sea level or heat waves that kill crops can arrive quickly and leave little time to put preventative measures in place, according to a study from the National Research Council, a group of scientists providing information for U.S. government decision-makers....
Changing winds dampen Antarctic sea-level rise
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Shifting, strengthening winds will help to counteract future sea-level rise in Antarctica -- and by doing so, they may help stabilize ice sheets on some parts of the southern continent. The band of westerly winds that encircles Antarctica has been speeding up and creeping southward since the 1950s. The trend, largely driven by the Antarctic ozone hole, is expected to continue thanks to climate change -- and could alone cause a drop in sea level of up to 40 cm over 70 years, according to research...
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Sea-level rise taking the pines out of Big Pine Key
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WLRN: Big Pine Key takes its name from the pine forests that cover the island, about 30 miles from Key West. Rare plants and endangered animals -- such as the Key deer -- live in those forests. But now the forests and hammocks are threatened by the rising seas around and beneath them. Robert Ehrig points to a piece of land that was hardwood hammock when he came to live here 35 years ago. All the palms in here are dead, Ehrig said. The last one died about the time of Hurricane Wilma, about seven,...
What to make of all those sea-level rise projections
2013-11-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Climate scientists largely agree that sea level is rising. The extent of the change is a far more complicated matter. "Probably two feet. Three feet, possibly," said David Enfield, a climatologist with the University of Miami and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. "As an extreme -- if, for example, we see an unexpected acceleration of the melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica, something else we're not observing -- we could be seeing six feet by the end of the century." Compare...
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Flooding worse than Sandy could hit Jersey Shore because of sea-level rise
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asbury Park Press: Look for more extreme coastal flooding locally even worse than during superstorm Sandy in upcoming decades, a climate expert said Friday. Ocean and Monmouth counties are on the front lines of risk from sea level rise, from coastal storms and coastal flooding, said Ben Strauss, vice president for climate impacts and director of the Program on Sea Level Rise at Climate Central in Princeton. I think nationally, theyre among the hot spots at risk nationwide, Strauss said. I think sea...
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