Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty. 2020) or Sadai et al. But there is more.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The case of Tangier is a prime example of the consequences of continued sea level rise and human displacement due to the climate crisis. Continued sea level rise is one of the most serious consequences of the climate crisis, according to the latest IPCC Assessment Report.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 27, 2022

In Context: In 2020, Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot announced an $8.5 One feature of the initiative, the equity program , offers to fully subsidize the replacement for Chicagoans below a certain income level. If the entire sheet melts, global sea levels could rise by 20 feet (six meters). .

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A Greener Life

APRIL 16, 2023

degrees C above the 1991-2020 average for the Boreal winter season. This ranks as the joint-second warmest winter on record on the European continent, only exceeded by the winter of 2019-2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. Sea levels are rising. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute climate dashboard clearly indicates sea surface temperature anomalies. Gulf water chemistry and temperature are changing.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The number of North Atlantic/Caribbean named tropical cyclones in and the estimates based on the area with sea surface temperature above 25.6°C The curve presented above is an update of the analysis presented in 2020 and posted here on RealClimate. C (Benestad, 2009). IPCC assessment report 6 – technical summary TS.2.3

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It also discussed climate change and sea level rise impacts, noting the Bay level could rise as much as 5.5 The Court’s Rejection of Plaintiffs’ Arguments Concerning Sea Level Rise. feet by 2100, and that the rise could occur at an accelerated rate. It found use of fill to raise Area 4 housing units 10 to 14.5

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

In 2020, the country announced a 30-year National Water Plan to address its ongoing crisis. Shifting focus to environmentally friendly infrastructure — including sea walls and pumps — is one likely change planners are preparing for. At the time, $383 billion (USD) were allotted for its implementation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

From more and more days of killer heat , to increased flooding and severe storms , to sea level rise , to ecosystem impacts in the Chesapeake Bay , Maryland has a huge stake in the climate. What we don’t avoid by reducing global warming emissions, we’ll have to make up for in climate resilience measures.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Subsidies to the sector had fallen to $147bn in 2020 as the impacts of travel restrictions due to COVID-19 weakened demand, but they rebounded in 2021, rising by 29% to $190bn. Oil drilling rigs off Invergordon, Scotland. By Catherine Early.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death. C by 2030.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. Flooding along Cobbs Creek in Southwest Philadelphia from Tropical storm Isaias, August 4, 2020.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2013, Jianli Chen and colleagues at the University of Texas, Austin showed that an eastward drift of the poles that began in 2005 is linked to melting glaciers and the associated sea-level rise. This allowed GRACE to determine the shape of the Earth and monitor changes in sea level, glaciers and groundwater.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

In addition to extreme weather, electric utilities and system operators must also prepare for shifts in baseline weather and environmental conditions, such as higher average temperatures and sea levels, when planning and operating the electric grid. storms) and ignored more gradual changes (e.g., You can access the toolkit here.

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Acoel

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of special note was the enactment in 2020 of legislation to address environmental justice through the permitting process for potentially polluting facilities that are to be located in “overburdened communities.”

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

This level of warming would lead to devastating losses in habitats, increased risk of sea level rise in extreme heat and other weather impacts that would put many communities at risk. In 2020, just one-quarter of the American population was dismissive, doubtful or disengaged on climate change. degrees by 2100.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We learned the great lengths that oil companies had gone to protect their own investments—even redesigning their offshore oil platforms to guard against sea level rise—while thwarting efforts by others to protect themselves. It’s not unusual for legal complaints to cite news stories in the fine-print citations.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. Zarzycki (2020): Forecasted attribution of the human influence on Hurricane Florence. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes. Painter, S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined. For example, with expected sea level rise over the next few decades what currently would be extreme coastal floods (50-year floods or a large flood with only a 2% chance in any given year) are likely to occur annually for most coastal U.S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

C, stated at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen and adopted one year later – which was also a non-binding goal – would leave many of them inundated by sea level rise. That’s the sea sponge study that made headlines last week. In fact, the 1.5 C of heating, this report focused on comparing climate impacts at 1.5 C to those at 2.0

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Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2022

Although total pollution incidents declined, the EA wrote that trends had not improved since 2015 and compliance with permits to discharge wastewater had worsened since 2020. The report also found that rising sea levels have impacted many low-lying areas, including the Kakadu wetlands, a World Heritage site and sacred Aboriginal land.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

SIDS make up about 1% of the world’s population and face similar economic, social and environmental challenges due to factors including their geographical location, reliance on natural resources and limited industrial activities (Thomas, 2020). Figure 1: Map showing small island developing states (SIDS), with the Caribbean highlighted.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This post was co-authored by Astrid Caldas. Here we are, at the end of another year. Danger season, the period of time between May and September when climate-related disasters peak is long gone. Hurricane season just ended on November 30.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sea-level rise is an unavoidable threat. Even avoiding increasing global temperatures above 2°C likely wont save us from a twenty-foot rise in sea-level by. This kind of devastating sea-level rise will have disastrous effects on worldwide economies, agricultural, and livelihoods. of global sea-level rise.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. The greatest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica occurred in February 2020, when the mercury hit 18.3C.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 11, 2021

On a smaller scale, farmers have turned to cement and plastic containers to store rainwater for their families and livestock for the 2020-21 dry season. This led to an October 2020 agreement in which China agreed to share year-round hydrological data with the Mekong River Commission (MRC). million cubic metres of water. Resolution 120.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Massachusetts pointed to the loss of coastal land from sea-level rise, while the Urgenda judgments ultimately concluded that there is a serious risk that climate change will cause the human rights of people in the Netherlands to not be met. gigatons CO 2 equivalent in 2020, about that of Japan.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 30, 2023

Moore, we acknowledge the need for scientific research led by Black scientists who have vested interest in climate issues that directly impact Black communities, including sea level rise & nutrient pollution in our oceans. The marine science community experienced a surge of attention on systemic inequity in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Inland flooding and coastal sea level rise will result. Water levels on the 56-mile coastline along the Delaware estuary are expected to rise 2.1 feet by mid-century. Read more here ] Visit DEP’s Climate Change webpage to learn more.

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Science Blogs

MAY 12, 2020

km above sea level for much of its history, the valley floor only rising in the Neogene to form today's flat plateau through ongoing tectonic compression from India and sediment infilling. Tue, 05/12/2020 - 10:40. Numerous fossil finds show lakeside sub-tropical vegetation in this valley remained below 2.3 Categories.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

States with major disaster declarations in the last seven years can apply for funds; in 2020, all 50 states and territories and Washington, D.C. had disaster declarations. managed retreat).

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Fishing communities and the infrastructure they need for fishing—from boats to ramps and marinas—are also vulnerable from storms and sea level rise. Marine fish and invertebrates are influenced by the conditions in their environment.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

AUGUST 11, 2023

After arriving at the Boulderado and acclimating to being more than 5,000 feet above sea level, attendees played a heated round of NSAC Acronym BINGO ahead of the first full day of meetings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the great failures of climate finance has been that of developed countries to furnish the USD 100 billion per year by 2020 that they promised to developing countries back in 2009 to support climate action. This aids in providing momentum for action on finance outside the official negotiating rooms.

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