"Sea Level Rise Now" News Digest

Sea levels could rise so much this century that they’ll unleash 25 times the amount of destructive floods – Business Insider

January 23, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 23 2017

Article Synopsis – A new report released by NOAA reviews recent scientific literature on the “worst case” sea level projections and how much ice in Greenland and Antarctica could melt. Recent studies on Antarctic ice-sheet stability show that such worse case scenarios might be more likely than ...

January 21, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 21 2017

Article Synopsis – Researchers from NOAA and Princeton University have released a study on the global shifts in mild weather over the next century. They define “mild weather” as a temperature between 64 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit, with less than half an inch of rain. They found ...

January 20, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 20 2017

Article Synopsis – A study in the journal Science has found that sea temperatures in a natural warm period about 125,000 years ago were “indistinguishable” from today, rather than up to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) hotter as previously thought. Sea levels during that period ...

January 19, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 19 2017

Article Synopsis – On Wednesday, NASA and the NOAA announced 2016 was the hottest year on record. Both agencies linked the record-breaking temperatures to human-caused climate change. While sea level rise will be the most obvious and most devastating effect of climate change, there are other consequences that are ...

January 18, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 18 2017

Article Synopsis – Ice extent in the Arctic region set daily record lows every single day in December, though the month overall had the second-lowest amount of ice extent on record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Last January also had very low ice ...

January 17, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 17 2017

Article Synopsis – Coastal countries are highly prone to sea-level rise, which leads to salt-water intrusion and increased salinity levels in agricultural land. This makes food production increasingly difficult and also threatens the freshwater supply. Developing countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam are particularly vulnerable. Scientists have been ...

January 16, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 16 2017

Article Synopsis – Sea level rise is an increasing threat to low-lying island nations around the world. Many islands in French Polynesia could lose their coastlines or even disappear due to global warming. In an effort to adapt to climate change, French Polynesian government officials have ...

January 14, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 14 2017

Article Synopsis – For decades, geologists have known that extracting large amounts of water can cause the ground to sink over time, sometimes by dozens of feet. Pumping the water back in has slowed some of this land subsidence and even slightly boosted ground levels in some ...

January 13, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 13 2017

Article Synopsis – A new study is providing important details on the extent of sea ice, which can protect ice shelves from the impacts of ocean storms, in the Antarctic Peninsula. Scientists have long thought that a shift in the Southern Annular Mode, which describes a ...