Global warming could make tides higher as well as raising sea levels
New Scientist
APRIL 26, 2024
In addition to the overall rise in sea level, the heights of tides are also changing as the oceans warm and separate into more distinct layers
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Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
My top 3 impressions up-front: The sea level projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100. And here is the key sea-level graphic from the Summary for Policy Makers: Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.
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Do Paris Agreement Temperature Goals Address Sea Level Rise and Climate Justice?
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Sea level rise presents numerous climate justice issues. New research that I led as part of my PhD dissertation, which was just published in Earth’s Future , digs deep into the topic of sea level rise and climate justice. Climate justice research can help inform these conversations.
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Dr. Shaina Sadai Talks About COP27, Climate Justice, Sea Level Rise, and Corporate Accountability
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 26, 2022
An expert on sea level dynamics and climate justice within the UN negotiations, Dr. Sadai is working to ensure that her scientific studies get in the hands of decisionmakers who are shaping our world today. UCS’s new Hitz Family Climate fellow, Dr. Shaina Sadai , is stepping into this emerging area of work.
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Sea level may have been higher than it is now just 6000 years ago
New Scientist
JULY 25, 2023
Climate researchers thought that current sea levels were the highest in more than 100,000 years, but new models suggest oceans were higher during the Holocene than they are today
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Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander Shares a 2023 Sea Level Rise Update
Earth 911
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Sea level rise due to melting glaciers on Greenland and in the Arctic and Antarctic. The post Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander Shares a 2023 Sea Level Rise Update appeared first on Earth911.
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2150 and Beyond
Legal Planet
APRIL 6, 2023
Some of the CO2 will get slowly absorbed into the ocean over a long period of time, but the ocean will also gradually release some of the heat it has been absorbing. Changes in the oceans will continue over a long period of time. What about really long-term sea level rise? With warming between 1.5°
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Extreme Climate Impacts From Collapse of a Key Atlantic Ocean Current Could be Worse Than Expected, a New Study Warns
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Disruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current could freeze Europe, scorch the tropics and increase sea level rise in the North Atlantic. By Bob Berwyn A new study affirms that a critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents that shunt warm and cold water between the poles is “on course” to a tipping point.
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New Federal Report Warns of Accelerating Impacts From Sea Level Rise
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
The global average sea level is rising 2 inches per decade and speeding up, but in some regions, the rate is more than twice that fast.
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Celebrating World Ocean Day
Law and Environment
JUNE 8, 2022
The ocean covers 71% of the planet and holds nearly 97% of the Earth’s water, and about 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of the coastline. What is Bluetech? Spotlight on SeaAhead.
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What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 1, 2022
by Jianjun Yin, University of Arizona Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that the U.S.
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Oceans Break Heat Record for Fourth Year in a Row
Scientific American
JANUARY 12, 2023
The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters.
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East Coast flooding is a reminder that sea level is rising as the climate warms – here’s why the ocean is pouring in more often
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 2, 2021
High tides are part of the problem, but there’s another risk that has been slowly creeping up: sea level rise. Since 1880, average global sea levels have risen… Read more → East Coast has been experiencing hurricane-like flooding in recent days, with Georgia and the Carolinas getting the latest round.
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Giant 'Gravity Hole' in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
Scientific American
JUNE 26, 2023
A vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is a staggering 100 meters lower than the global average sea level because of a major dip in Earth’s gravity. Scientists now think they know the cause
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Ripped from the Headlines
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APRIL 1, 2024
.” — NBC “Hurricanes are getting so intense, scientists propose a Category 6”— Washington Post “Parts of Amazon rainforest could tip toward collapse by 2050, study warns.” – Washington Post “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists.” –- CNN “Scientists discover an alarming change in (..)
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'Red alert' after key global warming records were smashed in 2023
New Scientist
MARCH 19, 2024
2023 wasn't just the hottest year on record by far, it also saw record glacier loss, sea level rise, ocean heat and sea ice loss, says World Meteorological Organization report
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How is Ocean Warming Impacting the Shipping Industry?
Ocean Conservancy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.
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Ocean Justice Requires Climate Action for All
Ocean Conservancy
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 In coastal counties, which are home to about 40% of the United States’ population, critical water infrastructure is growing more vulnerable to climate change and faces a host of compounding hazards such as sea level rise and flooding, heavy precipitation and extreme storm surges.
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Lake formation and expansion due to sea-level rise causes freshwater resource depletion on small islands
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Coastal regions and small ocean islands face significant risks from rising sea levels due to climate change, because waters can flood and inundate low-lying land surfaces. Read the full story from the Geological Society of America. Read more →
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The world’s oceans are heading towards peak acidity?
A Greener Life
MAY 23, 2022
Our oceans are acidifying. A new report has warned that the level of acidity in the world’s oceans is higher now than it has been for the past 26,000 years. ” How the oceans absorb carbon and store the heat. Oceans bear much of the brunt of the warming climate and increasing climate emissions.
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Halloween Ideas for a Changing Planet
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 31, 2023
The Sea-Level Witch. Another easy one: just take a Sea Witch costume and wear shoe lifts. Like many ocean creatures, this mermaid is now threatened by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. But really, these invented figures can’t hold a candle to the real ones in our world. Talk about a supervillain!
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Championing Ocean Climate Action at COP28
Ocean Conservancy
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.
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Extensive melting of West Antarctic ice sheet now looks unavoidable
New Scientist
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Ocean modelling suggests coastal cities around the world need to start preparing for several metres of sea level rise over the coming centuries
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New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 10, 2023
The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers that meltwater in tunnels beneath Greenland’s ice sheet causes it to change speed, and in some places, accelerate greatly towards the ocean.
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Improved Working Conditions for Recyclers Also Benefit Ocean Health
Ocean Conservancy
JANUARY 8, 2024
Last summer while visiting family in Bogotá, Colombia, a city located 9,000 feet above sea level in the Andes, I noticed more plastics than during my visit a decade ago. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.
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Advancing Ocean Climate Action at COP27
Ocean Conservancy
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. degrees Celsius. If we warm beyond 1.5°C, If we warm beyond 1.5°C,
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Costume Ideas for a Changing Planet
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The Sea-Level Witch. Another easy one: just take a Sea Witch costume and wear shoe lifts. Like many ocean creatures, this mermaid is now threatened by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. But really, these invented figures can’t hold a candle to the ones in our future. Talk about a supervillain!
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Meet the Prehistoric Animals that Ruled the Ocean
Ocean Conservancy
DECEMBER 7, 2021
When we think about the age of the dinosaurs, we often forget about what was swimming in the ocean during that period. Global sea levels were high during the Mesozoic period in which dinosaurs ruled the earth. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Mosasaurus. ©
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What is Ocean Optimism?
Ocean Conservancy
JULY 19, 2021
Maya Canonizado is a Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. Growing up and living on the coast her whole life sparked her love for the ocean and the desire to protect it from a young age. Before I started working for Ocean Conservancy, I browsed through this very website. Never miss an update.
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How Does Carbon Pollution Impact Our Ocean
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 27, 2023
We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.
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The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?
Real Climate
DECEMBER 17, 2022
Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. For the part entering the ocean as ice, we must also consider that to melt ice requires energy. Greenland ice melt. or other estimates). References. Trenberth, K. & Fasullo, J.
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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 22, 2022
Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Storm events are getting steadily more intense.
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321 Climate Change Is Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying — And Terrifying
Law and Environment
AUGUST 9, 2021
Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. My emphasis.).
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Southeastern U.S. Seas Are Rising at Triple the Global Average
Scientific American
APRIL 11, 2023
Sea levels off the southeastern U.S. have risen more than a centimeter a year over the past decade—about triple the global average—and the effects on communities near the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean already are being observed
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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.
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Can Iceberg Surges in the Arctic Trigger Rapid Warming at the Other End of The World?
Inside Climate News
APRIL 28, 2023
New research shows a fast-acting climate connection between poles that may be driven by wind rather than by ocean currents.
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Dead Tree Standing: Saltwater Threatens Coastal Forests and Ecosystem Services
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
As sea levels rise, ghost forests expand. Sea level rise is causing ghost forests to expand along the east coast, with hotspots in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina. Ghost forests, then, are an intermediate stage in the Atlantic coastline’s quickening transition from land to ocean.
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2023 appears to follow an upward trend in the North Atlantic/Caribbean named tropical cyclone count
Real Climate
DECEMBER 17, 2023
It’s an interesting situation if there are different trends for all tropical cyclones on the one hand and the most intense ones on the other, or if there are trends that point in different directions over different ocean basins. 2023) observed a significant seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones since the 1980s in most tropical oceans.
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What is a Barrier Island?
Ocean Conservancy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sea levels were quickly rising, and the rapid waters kept sediment from settling. However, when combined with climate change impacts like rising sea levels, the intensity of these threats becomes magnified.
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Antarctic Researchers Report an Extraordinary Marine Heatwave That Could Threaten Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
The inexorable rise of ocean heat is now evident off the coast of West Antarctica, potentially disrupting critical parts of the global climate system and accelerating sea level rise.
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An Ocean of Data
Ocean Conservancy
MAY 20, 2021
The significance of the ocean to humanity cannot be overstated, whether it is regulating Earth’s climate, providing food to billions or helping society transition to renewable, fossil fuel-free energy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.
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Venice may get a temporary respite from rising seas by 2035
New Scientist
DECEMBER 6, 2022
High winter sea levels in Venice are linked to warmer sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, and cooling in that ocean over coming decades should therefore temporarily compensate for the city's sea level rise
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What the IPCC Report Says About Our Ocean
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 24, 2023
Each IPCC report gives us more insights into how our ocean is changing, how those changes might impact the wildlife and communities that depend on it, and the options for ocean-based climate solutions. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.
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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 16, 2021
First, after carbon dioxide emissions cease, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels begin to decrease, as they are absorbed by natural processes and sinks in the oceans and on land. Some models show a potential for a rise of up to 0.3 degrees Celsius, which is non-trivial, but others show a potential for a decrease of up to 0.3
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