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Stormy rhythms: creating music from the giant waves that shape our coasts

Physics World

Focused on 22 sites in Ireland, the project seeks to understand how rocky beaches are shaped by factors such as wave energy, geology and coastal geometry. Following the 2013/14 winter storms that battered the eastern side of the Atlantic, Cox and her team documented the movement of many large boulders, including one weighing 620 tonnes.

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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

And the AR5 found in 2013 that “there is high confidence that the rate of sea level rise has increased during the last two centuries, and it is likely that global mean sea level has accelerated since the early 1900’s.” We would see massive coastal erosion happening all around.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

The problems with the SPM are similar those from the previous fifth assessment report which prompted me to write a post in 2013. I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

These effects of climate change have been closely linked to socioecological hazards, including biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, coastal erosion, overfishing, and freshwater salinization (Douglas & Cooper, 2020). Aggregate Trends of Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-2020 Shah, K.

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Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court

The Energy Law Blog

251, 258 (2013) (citing Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. In addition, the scope of appellate review issue is currently before the Fifth Circuit in coastal erosion suits brought by local government entities against the oil and gas industry (Docket Nos. Minton , 568 U.S. Darue Engineering & Manufacturing, 545 U.S.