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

Real Climate

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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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. Sea levels are rising.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.

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U.N. Human Rights Committee finds that Australia is violating human rights obligations towards Torres Strait Islanders for climate inaction

Law Columbia

Rising sea temperatures are impairing the health of marine environments around the islands, by coral bleaching and ocean acidification. In May 2019, a group of eight Torres Strait Islanders and six of their children submitted a complaint against the Australian government to the UNHRC. Right to private, family, and home life.

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Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Scientists call this the urban heat island effect because, when you look at a map of temperatures, cities will appear as hot “islands” surrounded by a cooler “ocean” of lower temperatures in the surrounding areas. They make cities hotter than the more rural, less-developed areas outside of them. degrees F to as much as 12.6

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Climate Change: Is The Answer “Blowin’ in the Wind”?

Acoel

New data from NASA, the New York Times reports , revealed that warm ocean waters fueled Hurricane Ian to become one of the most powerful storms to strike the U.S. And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying. Although that rule never went into effect, the U.S.