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Climate change in 2012: record sea-level rise, Arctic melting, warmed oceans, report says
2013-08-06 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A new massive U.S. study says the world in 2012 sweltered with continued signs of climate change. Rising sea levels, snow melt, heat buildup in the oceans, and melting Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheets, all broke or nearly broke records, but temperatures only sneaked into the top 10. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday issued a peer-reviewed 260-page report, which agency chief Kathryn Sullivan calls its annual "checking on the pulse of the planet." The report,...
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Sea-level rise threatens 1,400 cities
2013-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA TODAY: A rise in sea levels threatens the viability of more than 1,400 cities and towns, including Miami, Virginia Beach and Jacksonville, unless there are deep cuts in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, says an analysis out Monday. Prior emissions have already locked in 4 feet of future sea-level rise that will submerge parts of 316 municipalities, but the timing is unclear and could take hundreds of years, according to the paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If global warming...
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Vulnerable Maryland weighs threat of sea-level rise
2013-07-22 14:36:50| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: It was scary enough that a team of experts on sea-level rise projected that Maryland's coastal waters could rise to six feet in this century. But to hammer home the findings of a new report, they included a link to a Web tool that allows readers to make like a god, sliding a scale over pictures of state landmarks until a creeping tide washes them away. Maryland, with 3,100 miles of tidal shore along the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay, is one of several states, including Virginia, Delaware,...
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Long-term sea-level rise in response to warming of planet estimated
2013-07-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Global sea levels will rise about 7 feet over the next several thousand years for every degree Celsius the planet warms, a U.S. study estimates. Researchers at Oregon State University said they combined analyses of four major contributors to potential sea level rise into a collective estimate, and compared it with evidence of past sea-level responses to global temperature changes, to arrive at their conclusion. The major contributors to sea-level rise on a global scale will be melting of glaciers,...
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Maryland urged to plan for 2-foot sea-level rise by 2050
2013-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Baltimore Sun: Saying climate change is already underway, a panel of scientists is urging Maryland officials to plan to accommodate rising seas of up to 2 feet along the state's shoreline in the next 40 years -- and perhaps nearly 6 feet by the end of the century. In a report to be released Wednesday and commissioned by Gov. Martin O'Malley, the group of 21 scientists from Maryland, Virginia and other mid-Atlantic states said recent, more sophisticated studies suggest that sea level is rising faster than forecast...
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