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Showing posts with label rising seas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rising seas. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Surging seas driven by the climate crisis already impacting Island nations says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

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The Pacific Islands Forum is underway in Tonga. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made a speech to the opening of the forum.  He hig...
Monday, September 19, 2016

What impact #sealevelrise on Melbourne's privatised port facilities?

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The Andrews Victorian state government has been successful with the sale of the Port of Melbourne for $9.7 billion, an election promise. T...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Guest Post: Rising sea levels will be too much, too fast for Florida

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Within a generation or two sea level rise is going to really start to affect most coastal nations. Alreadyit is having an affect on small i...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Ice Sheets and Sea level: what the past tells us is likely.

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Watch this informative video By Peter Sinclair and the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media on ice sheet collapse and sea level rise...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Guest Post: Reversal of sea level rise co-ordinated planning increasing risk to Australian coastal development

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Sea level rise is perhaps one of the greatest perils of climate change over the long term according to Dr Peter Ward. The rate of rise will...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Longterm sea level rise estimated at 2.3 metres for every degree Celsius of global warming

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"Continuous sea-level rise is something we cannot avoid unless global temperatures go down again," said climate scientist Anders L...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Seagrass projected to drastically decline with sea level rise

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To most of us, what is hidden beneath the waves of our coastal environment remains invisible and is little thought about or cared about. Yet...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Sea Level rising 3 to 4 times faster on US Atlantic coast

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One of the impacts of the Greenland Ice sheet melt is the increase in cold fresh water impacting on the themohaline circulation, the great ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Australia gives foreign aid to Kiribati to combat climate change as new coal mines approved

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At the start of this week Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced that Australia would fund repairs to 40 kilometres of main roa...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Is Climate Change causing an exponential rate of Ice sheet Mass Loss, sea level rise?

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Climate scientist James Hansen and his colleague Makiko Sato have released a new discussion paper with updated data on ice sheet mass loss f...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Sea Level Rise unstoppable: emissions reduction needed to enable climate adaptation

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Well this is a nice pickle! It seems that sea level rise won't stop even if we aggressively mitigate global warming and keep global ave...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

California coast to be hit hard by sea level rise with climate change

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A US National Research Council report released June 22 concluded that average global sea level is likely to rise two to three times higher w...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Sea level rise hidden impact on Biodiversity and Habitat loss

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A new scientific study published in Global Change Biology raises alarm bells about global climate change and the secondary impact of sea lev...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Pacific climate change: temperatures rise, sea levels increase, rainfall changing

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A major new report on climate change in the Pacific Ocean region reports that the region is getter hotter, sea levels are rising, rainfall i...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Goodbye Mountain Glaciers, hello sea level rise

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Photo: Fox Glacier in New Zealand (2007) by Andrew Turner New research from Canada says that most mountain glaciers are on the retreat. Many...
Friday, October 1, 2010

The risks of Sea Level Change - Dr Peter Ward

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Dr Peter Ward claims that the single biggest threat and impact of climate change will be rising seas, rather than hot weather, or even droug...