October 14, 2015
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Human Interest
amazon, business, Business News, climate change study, Climate-Change, florida climate change, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Miami, New Orleans, research, rising sea level, Science, Science News, Sea Level Rise, sea level study, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Millions of Americans live in places where it’s too late to slow the threat of rising sea levels, a new study warns, and researchers are hoping those findings will serve as a call to action for cities that can still be saved by cutting carbon emissions.
The study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examines how much rising sea levels will affect cities across the United States over time if carbon emissions stay the same or decrease. The most startling finding is that 414 towns and cities have already passed their lock-in date, or the point at which it’s guaranteed that more than half the city’s populated land will eventually be underwater no matter how much humans decrease carbon emissions; it’s just a matter of when.
That’s “the date where we let the genie out of the bottle, when it’s past the point of no return,” lead study author Benjamin Strauss of Climate Central told The Huffington Post.
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A woman walks atop an earthen levee on the Mississippi River in the Lower 9th Ward as the Steamboat Natchez passes in August 2015 in New Orleans. The city is ringed by hundred of miles of levees to protect against flooding.
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July 30, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News
amazon, business, Business News, Chesapeake Bay, Climate-Change, global warming, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, rising sea levels, Science, Science News, Sea Level Rise, technology, Technology News, travel, U.S. Geological Survey, vacation, Washington, Washington area, washington dc
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New research indicates that Washington, D.C., is rapidly sinking into the ocean, news that might not make the rest of the country all that sad.
The research, from the University of Vermont, the U.S. Geological Survey and several other institutions, projects the land beneath the Washington area will drop 6 or more inches in the next 100 years. That’s in addition to rising sea levels due to climate change, which is melting ice sheets and causing thermal expansion of the oceans. Climate change has already caused 8 inches of sea level rise since 1880, and is expected to raise average global sea levels another 1 to 4 feet by the end of this century.
Relative sea level rise in the Chesapeake Bay region is happening faster than any other part of the Atlantic coast, according to tidal records, and twice as fast as global averages.
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July 22, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News
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One of the nation’s most recognizable names in climate science, Dr. James Hansen, released a new paper this week warning that even 2 degrees Celsius of global warming may be “highly dangerous” for humanity.
The paper, which will be published online in the European Geosciences Union journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion later this week, projects sea levels rising as much as 10 feet in the next 50 years.
The paper notes there is evidence indicating that average temperatures just 1 degree Celsius warmer than today caused sea levels to rise 16 to 30 feet and fed extreme storms thousands of years ago.
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February 26, 2015
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
Climate-Change, Maine Sea Level Rise, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, New York Sea Level Rise, Northeast coast, Northeast Sea Level Rise, Northeast Sea Levels, Sea Level Rise, Sea Level Rise Northeast, Sea levels, University of Arizona
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Sea levels across the Northeast coast of the United States rose nearly 3.9 inches between 2009 and 2010, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Arizona and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The waters near Portland, Maine, saw an even greater rise — 5 inches — over the two-year period.
While scientists have been observing higher sea levels across the globe in recent decades, the study found a much more extreme rise than previous averages. Such an event is “unprecedented” in the history of the tide gauge record, according to the researchers, and represents a 1-in-850 year event.
“Unlike storm surge, this event caused persistent and widespread coastal flooding even without apparent weather processes,” the study’s authors wrote. “In terms of beach erosion, the impact of the 2009-2010 [sea level rise] event is almost as significant as some hurricane events.”
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Sea Levels along the U.S. Northeast rose nearly 4 inches in two years, according to a new study. (Fotosearch/Getty Images) | Fotosearch via Getty Images
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