Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

They also work together and with other partners on the recently launched Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission, which is a new mission to extend the long-term record of sea-level rise. For example, ESA and NASA teams worked together on field campaigns in the Arctic to validate their respective CryoSat and ICESat missions.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The international journal Oceans and Coastal Management also produced a study in 2022 suggesting that the Tendring area, which encompasses Clacton, is exposed to sea level rises – potentially affecting hundreds of homes. These policies reflected Farage’s personal views on climate action. Reform was approached for comment.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A global energy company wanted to undertake a physical risk assessment to understand the firm’s potential exposure to climate hazards, such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and sea-level rise that could lead to supply chain disruptions and increased operating costs for the business.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Moreover, as sea level rise is expected to further confound these issues in addition to more extreme and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes, a better understanding of these dynamics will be essential for sustainable management of coastal resources.”.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

is now essentially a meaningless goal,” said David Victor, a professor of public policy at the University of California, San Diego and a former lead author for the IPCC. A section of bike path covered in ocean water during the “King Tide” event — made worse by sea-level rise — in Mill Valley, California, in January.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The airport is next to the Delaware River, which will rise as the Atlantic does. Here is the original: Philadelphia International Airport grapples with climate change and sea-level rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Across Europe, National Road Administrations (NRAs) are having to deal with more frequent and severe weather, greater sea level rises and increased stress on infrastructure leading to higher deterioration rates. The impact of climate change on our road network is climbing the list of national priorities.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

The report said we are already observing climatic changes without precedent over hundreds of thousands of years, with some of these irreversible over reasonable timescales, such as ocean acidification and sea level rises. Policy response. For example, the scenario known as “RCP8.5”

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Planet Pulse

MAY 6, 2021

The country’s location also makes it vulnerable to other natural disasters including frequent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions as well as tsunamis, sea-level rise, storm surges, landslides, flooding, and drought. Further, the data help its government formulate policies based on research studies using satellite data.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

According to Molly Melius, program manager at Stanford University’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program, seawalls can reduce beach width, decrease sand replenishment of beaches, and also accelerate erosion at the ends of seawalls. That portion could increase to one-third by 2100 if current rates continue.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

This possibility of overshoot was first conceived by scientific models that map out potential pathways for climate policy. While the rise in temperature is theoretically reversible, many of the consequences of a temporarily hotter planet will not be. . It was seen as a way to be policy prescriptive,” Cramer said. “As

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

Such findings underscore the scale of support among Conservative Party members for ambitious green policies that can help curb the huge hike in energy bills expected this winter, just as postal ballot papers for choosing Britain's next PM are sent out to the membership from next week.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This will be the first [climate liability] case to go to a jury,” Patrick Parenteau, emeritus professor of law and senior fellow for climate policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School, told DeSmog. He called the ruling a “breakthrough.” “Not

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

But in most cases there isn’t a direct line between science and policy action — and there never has been. Scientific information is always viewed through a vortex of ideology, politics, and power. Science can tell us that we need to stop burning fossil fuels, but it can’t tell us exactly how we should transition our economy to clean energy.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

(The study also noted that a handful of countries — including Pakistan, Turkey, and Vietnam — had set unusually high emissions targets that would be reachable without any new policy initiatives and do little to reduce warming.). There are already some indications that countries are not on target to meet their pledges.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Olhoff is the head of strategy, climate and planning and policy for the UNEP DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Partnership. A 2019 IPCC report warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise. By now, we know all we need to know" Anne Olhoff said recently. These warnings are not new.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The researchers also dropped some tipping points that had been included on previous lists, like the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, which may not be self-perpetuating. to 3 degrees C based on current policies. Currently, the world is on track to warm about 2.6

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

We can see wildfires burning greater areas, heatwaves becoming more frequent and more deadly, hurricanes stronger and more damaging, the sea level rising, floods increasing, droughts getting stronger. They want us to ensure the policies we are putting in place leave a cleaner, greener future for them.”.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. Originally published on ILSR.org .

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Where they once denied climate science outright, companies now engage in “ discourses of delay ,” publicly accepting the science but working to stall climate policy by redirecting blame, pushing non-transformative solutions, and emphasizing the downsides of taking action.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Planning policy amendments designed to drive development away from areas at risk of flooding and coastal erosion, according to Welsh Government.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Other tools mentioned by White include the DoD Regional Sea Level Rise Database and an interagency working group which includes the Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA, NASA, EPA, and USGS, among others. Specifically in Africa, we’re looking at the horn of Africa and droughts and rainfall measures,” states Cervantes de Blois. “So

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Reform UK’s Anti-Climate Platform Lowe’s views on climate science and net zero correspond with the policies of his political party. Reform UK campaigns for net zero to be scrapped, claiming that “we must not impoverish ourselves in pursuit of unaffordable, unachievable global CO2 targets.”

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contain the equivalent of 65 meters of sea-level rise, and the more they melt, the more they absorb sunlight, driving them to melt faster. National GDP numbers integrate a huge range of influences: government policy, technological innovation, recession and booms.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Floodplains are expanding into new areas with dense populations due to sea-level rise and land-use change, but the researchers also think people are building at an accelerated pace in flood-prone areas. The study does not investigate the drivers of the trend, but there are a few possible explanations.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Bob Kopp, a co-author of the paper who researches climate change and sea level rise at Rutgers University, said that talking about tipping points, as scary as they are, might not inspire people to do something about climate change. Thats because fear is an unreliable motivator. Gladwell recounted in 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to DeSmog’s investigation, they include icon carver and YouTuber Jonathan Pageau, who has characterized fears about climate change as “secular apocalypticism,” as well as podcaster and author Michael Malice, who has said that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons. Greenpeace UK’s Executive Director, John Sauven, said: “These pivotal climate talks require bold policies, tough targets and political will from all governments.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question. Climate science should remain the hard basis for all decision making and target setting.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

This deceptive conduct, the lawsuit contends , has made Honolulu more vulnerable to climate change impacts like sea level rise, coastal erosion, extreme heat, and severe storms and flooding. It’s definitely the case to watch.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. We need immediate action on energy. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now at their highest point for at least 2 million years. Sea level rising so fast? But we never dictate any policy to any country – it is for the governments to take the decisions.”. When was the last time we saw heating this fast? Temperatures this high? At least 6,500 years.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Cyclone Amphan slammed into countries surrounding the Sea of Bengal this May. The storm was the second most powerful the region has seen in two decades, affecting over 12 million people in four countries. In Bangladesh, the water surged up to 4. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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