Energy Innovation
DECEMBER 17, 2018
As societies around the world continue emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, they face the consequence of sea level rise. Since 1900, sea levels have increased 8 inches on average globally, and by 2100, sea levels will likely rise between 1 and 4 feet (Sweet et al.
Grist
MAY 18, 2021
There is a universe in which Hurricane Sandy didn’t create quite so much devastation back in 2012; where the waters, which surged deep into subway tunnels and left parts of New York City in the dark for days, left some parts of the tri-state area unscathed. And that universe, according to scientists, is one without climate change.
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Energy Innovation
APRIL 2, 2019
New research focused on the mechanisms and rates of how snow and ice is lost to the ocean from the land, along with studies of past climates offer new insights into how much sea level may change in the coming years. Both approaches utilize computer models to further explore the relationship between sea level and climate.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
A century of greenhouse gasses heating up the atmosphere have eroded swaths of the Greenland ice sheet — frozen freshwater that holds back 23 feet of potential sea level rise. For instance, an extreme melting event in 2012 led to the loss of 610 gigatons of ice, enough to fill Lake Eerie, and then some.
Grist
AUGUST 30, 2022
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of the world’s top scientists, projected a two- to five-inch rise by 2100, depending on how much more carbon gets pumped into the atmosphere. The new research suggests that extreme temperatures could eventually trigger as much as 30 inches of sea-level rise.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 28, 2021
For example, recent research found that human-caused sea-level rise increased the damages suffered when Hurricane Sandy hit the US East Coast in 2012 by $8.1 Another study found that climate change was responsible for $67 billion of damage caused by Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in 2017.
Green Market Oracle
DECEMBER 9, 2019
In 2012 scientists warned us that our oceans are dying but we did not respond. By 2012 dozens of studies made the case for anthropogenic climate change including a report from UNEP that warned that we are on the brink of a climate catastrophe. PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC ) issued a climate warning in 2012 and so did the World Bank.
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