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According to the results of a new analysis, it would appear that global sea levels will continue to rise extensively over the next few decades, regardless of whether we stop greenhouse gas emissions or not.
The study is not meant to suggest that no causal link exists between the two, but to highlight that it is alre... |
20 March 2012
18:01 GMT |
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For climate change deniers looking for a way to demonstrate that global sea level rise will not affect the world in the coming decades, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that estimates of previous sea levels were higher than in reality. The bad news is that the seas rose by 20 to 43 feet.
While this i... |
15 March 2012
04:50 GMT |
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That the iconic Italian city of Venice is in danger of being submerged in the Adriatic Sea is known to everyone, but there are also other major problem plaguing the city: the global sea level rise and subsidence (the process by which the sediment on which the city is built is being compacted).
This happens because w... |
28 December 2011
07:04 GMT |
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According to investigators at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, led by director and paleoclimate expert James E Hansen, this century has tremendous potential for rapid, massive climate change. This can only be avoided by curbing global warming.
Hansen, who was the first to propose carbon emission curbs ... |
9 December 2011
03:48 GMT |
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The Jason-1 satellite has just turned 10, officials at NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) announce. The mission was launched on December 7, 2001, to study our planet's oceans from space, and keep an eye on global sea level changes.
As climate change and global warm... |
8 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that global sea levels are growing now faster than they did over the past 2,000 years. Researchers also found a clear correlation between global average surface temperature and sea level.The study focused on constructing a long-term model of how ... |
21 June 2011
04:10 GMT |
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As the world is getting warmer, experts are beginning to identify more and more areas that play a significant role in boosting sea level rise. Recently, they found out that islands in the Canadian section of the Arctic contributed extensively to this phenomenon.Glacier and ice caps in these area are now melting faste... |
21 April 2011
10:58 GMT |
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In an attempt to make more sense about how the planet's climate looked like thousands of years ago, during the time between the last two glaciation events that affected Earth. British researchers just got a new grant to fund their investigation.The money came from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) ... |
28 January 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Throughout 2010, more and more data on global warming and climate change have emerged than were available for other years or even decades. The image they paint is bleak, and stands in stark contrast with global warming deniers' position that humans are not causing the warming. On the contrary, all evidence would... |
29 November 2010
08:41 GMT |
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Analysis of two decades-worth of scientific data on the temperatures in the deep ocean reveal a warming trend, that is directly connected to global sea level rise.A recent investigation also reveals that the warming trend is especially intense around Antarctica. The Southern Continent has been severely affected by gl... |
21 September 2010
04:34 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United Kingdom says that its current research effort, of peering at the geophysical and hydrological conditions below the surface of the Greenland ice sheets, are critically important for the future. They believe that this line of study could help us better understand the ensemble of ... |
7 September 2010
08:52 GMT |
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By harvesting coral fossils that are more than 20,000 years old, experts hope to be able to paint a clearer picture of how global sea levels may have changed over time, and especially since the last glacial period. A team of researchers recently conducted an expedition at the outer fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, ... |
7 September 2010
01:57 GMT |
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In a series of studies conducted by Chinese researchers, it was determined that even the most advanced and futuristic methods of geoengineering our planet's climate cannot curb the anticipated rise in sea levels.Computer models at this point show that the average height of the sea will increase constantly over t... |
24 August 2010
06:59 GMT |
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A group of researchers has recently determined that the rate at which a major portion of Alaskan glaciers is melting has been exaggerated by previous studies. The experts note that the method of calculation they used show that the actual melt rate is about 66 percent of the initially-established one. The team adds th... |
3 March 2010
02:28 GMT |
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Marine biologists announce that the world's coral reefs, endangered by increased, global warming-induced ocean acidification, may be able to endure their ordeal. A team of researchers has just completed a review of some of the most ancient corals in the world, and its members believe that these lifeforms may be ... |
1 March 2010
04:01 GMT |
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Experts believe that, by studying the fossilized corals inside reefs, they could get more information about how sea levels changed since the last Ice Age, some 20,000 years ago. They add that the Great Barrier Reef could be the optimum starting point for such an investigation, given the scale of the reef, and also it... |
15 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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In a finding that may force experts to reconsider how ice sheets are influenced by climate change, a group of scientists has determined that the global sea levels were higher than today more than 80,000 years ago. The measurements that led to the new conclusions were collected from Mediterranean caves that were flood... |
12 February 2010
03:47 GMT |
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After a preliminary analysis of a set of submerged structures off the island of Damsay, in the United Kingdom, experts revealed that the underwater relics might hold important clues on how to combat sea-level rises. The phenomenon is strongly associated with global warming-induced glacier and ice-cap melting. The sto... |
17 December 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Scientists have determined that the current global-warming phenomenon will not lead to all the river deltas in the world being swamped. A multitude of factors will determine which of the landscape features will be destroyed or not, including the level of tectonic activity in plates around their locations, and the typ... |
11 November 2009
02:25 GMT |
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According to a new study conducted by experts at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), the state of North Carolina is at the highest risk of suffering damage from the rising sea level it has ever been over the past 500 years. The international team of environmental scientists that conducted the investigatio... |
29 October 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Experts at the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, have recently devised a new map of the country's coastal lands, which highlights the areas most threatened by sea-level rises. The map charts the post Ice-Age tilt of the UK and Ireland, as well as current, relative sea-level changes in the region. Details... |
6 October 2009
20:11 GMT |
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According to scientific evidence seen by the BBC News, it would appear that one of the largest ice sheets in the Antarctic, Pine Island Glacier, is melting four times faster than it did only ten years ago. Satellite measurements of the region have revealed the fact that the formation is at this time losing about 16 m... |
14 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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Experts analyzing the Atlantic seaboard on the East Coast of the United States, from Maine to Florida, have determined that the average level of high tides on the entire stretch of land is about two feet higher than anticipated, for yet unknown reasons. The measurements were conducted during mid-season, when the tide... |
31 July 2009
01:41 GMT |
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According to a recent scientific study, the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) would only raise sea levels by half of the originally estimated amount. Rather than forcing waters worldwide up by five to six meters (15 to 20 feet), a catastrophic meltdown will only generate a 3.3-meter (11-foot) lift, a Br... |
15 May 2009
06:54 GMT |
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According to researchers at the Florida State University (FSU), sea levels in the New York area, as well as in adjacent regions, could rise twice as fast by 2100 than the global means. In other words, while ocean levels in India, Europe and Japan will also increase, they will do so constantly, while on the Eastern co... |
16 March 2009
07:59 GMT |
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a branch of the United Nations that deals with assessing the effects of global warming on the globe, has estimated that sea levels worldwide will rise by about 30-35 centimeters in the next century, on account of the large quantities of carbon dioxide emitted in... |
10 January 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Over the past few years, opponents to the idea that pollution and human activities are causing global warming and climate change have been using the situation in the Antarctic as their most solid argument. They said that the ice spreads in Eastern Antarctica were growing and that this was enough proof that people had... |
18 November 2008
08:59 GMT |
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