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Showing posts with label sea level. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea level. 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...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Australia - Tuvalu sign resettlement treaty over existential rising seas climate threat: Australia –Tuvalu Falepili Union

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Australia –Tuvalu Falepili Union Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signed an agreement with the Tuvalu PM, Kausea Natano, to se...
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...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Attenborough on the Great Barrier Reef, sea level rise and climate change

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Did you watch the first part of David Attenborough's documentary on the Great Barrier Reef? This is a remarkable documentary with film...
Friday, September 11, 2015

#SeaLevelRise comment engulfs Dutton, Abbott in Pacific #climate storm

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Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has made a joke of Pacific Nations facing rising sea levels due to climate change. The Au...
Friday, March 27, 2015

A North Atlantic nasty surprise: AMOC slowing faster than expected

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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowing much faster than expected It seems that the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster disaster movie 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...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Guest Post: wet warning from Australia's Top End on rising sea levels

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Rising sea level should concern us all. Sea levels will not rise evenly: it will vary from region to region. In Eastern and southern Austra...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

ExClimate: Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier revs up with climate change

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A "glacial pace" can no longer be used to describe the speed of the Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland. The latest study of Jakobshav...
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...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Kevin Trenbeth on the 2011 Sea level Bump and Australia's wettest two year period

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Did you know that during 2011 sea level rise went into reverse and lost 5mm from the global oceans? No? How about that since then, much to ...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Coastal Wetlands under threat from Sea Level Rise says World Bank

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Climate change induced sea level rise of one metre is likely to destroy 60 per cent of the developing world's wetlands says a new World ...
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...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Glaciers continue losing mass adding to sea level rise

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Figure 2: Mean cumulative mass balance of all reported glaciers (blue line) and the reference glaciers (red line), from glaciers in the Amer...
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...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Sea Level rising 60% faster than IPCC projections

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Sea Level is rising 60% faster than IPCC projections according to a new climate change related study comparing the actual rise in CO2 concen...