Grist

JULY 18, 2019

It could save coastal cities around the world, like Hong Kong and New York City, from sea level rise, a new study found. In Western Antarctica, ice is breaking off into the sea faster than it’s naturally replenished by snowfall due to warming ocean currents. on Jul 18, 2019. Bleak times indeed! .

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past decade, scientists studying sea level rise have turned their attention to western Antarctica, where one of the world’s largest glaciers has dumped over a trillion tons of ice into the ocean since the early 2000s. kilometers per year — twice the rate observed by satellites between 2011 and 2019. During one 5.5-month

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2021

The study focused on summer 2019, which was a particularly intense melt season compared to previous years, likely influenced by climate change. Tracking melting in both Greenland and Antarctica is critical as meltwater from these two ice sheets is the largest contributor to sea level rise today. © 2019, Planet Labs Inc.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. This month, the U.S.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Striking both for their beauty — and for the grave and imminent threat posed by sea-level rise and coastal erosion. At a fundamental level, it is a crisis and it’s happening right now and affecting millions of people,” he said. It’s why climate change has always felt personal to him. “At

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A 2019 IPCC report warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise. In 2019, more than 10,000 scientists from 153 countries declared a "climate emergency". The report warned that by 2030 we will will breech the upper threshold limit (1.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-level rise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 16, 2020

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, London-based multidisciplinary design studio Superflux has created “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore,” an immersive exhibition that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas. Superflux Images via Superflux.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2019

Climate Action Planning Creating Low Carbon Resilient Communities, an adaptation blueprint for communities, will take place on August 7, 2019 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT. This is an Island Press Webinar Series.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Development, slated for completion in 2019, is ongoing and is expected to move into additional phases. With a projected global sea-level rise of 7-15 inches by 2065, according to the Southeast Florida Climate Compact 2015 projections, Miami communities stand to undergo drastic changes in development to combat the effects.

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Grist

AUGUST 14, 2019

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 13, 2019. Cold, heat, flood, drought, and sea-level rise all pose significant risks to U.S. counties on Aug 14, 2019. Extreme climate change has arrived in America. Here are the fastest-warming places.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Lindsey, 2019). The average level of atmospheric CO2 for the month of December 2019 at Mauna Loa was 411.76 University of Tasmania professor Pete Strutton suggests that drastic cuts in CO2 output will no longer be enough to prevent warming of 3 C (Global Carbon Project, [GCP], 2019). Welch, 2019).

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

July 2019 was hottest month ever recorded and this year's high ocean temperatures have proven fatal to marine wildlife. High sea surface temperatures, drive stronger winds, more evaporation, more atmospheric moisture and more heavy precipitation. Hurricane Dorian is hardly the only extreme weather event we have seen in 2019.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Scientist Ivor van Heerden stands next to the Bayou Bridge pipeline on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin in 2019. Another LNG export project proposed in a predominantly white community in Louisiana, Commonwealth LNG, submitted an application to LDNR for a Coastal Use Permit in 2019. The opposite has proven to be true.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. Drawing on the IPCC’s previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Arctic shipping is increasing as melting sea ice opens up new routes that allow shipping companies to capitalise on shorter trans-Arctic voyages. Meanwhile, black carbon emissions are also on the rise, with Clean Arctic Alliance noting that black carbon emissions increased 85 per cent between 2015 and 2019.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

” In 2019, the museum’s leaders secured funding to begin a project of digitally mapping the 125,000 square-foot space, to answer the question of documentation with modern tools. . “And a quarter are in zones that are highly vulnerable to sea level rise and severe storms,” she added.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The project’s supporters, including major environmental nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Audubon Society, say large river diversions are the most effective way to send land-building sediment streaming into the bayou from the Mississippi River to fight land subsidence and sea-level rise.

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Grist

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It was looking at the history of the waterfront and how climate change is affecting it, because sea-level rise has been a huge problem, especially with increased storms. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The head and the heart: Why science and art should work together on Dec 2, 2019.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To achieve this the IPCC calculates that annual global emissions of CO2 must be reduced to 45 per cent below their 2010 level by 2030, which was roughly 1.9 Observations in 2019 made clear that the Arctic has now become a significant source of CO2 emissions, emitting the equivalent of around 2.3 gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. In 2019, the Business Roundtable redefined the purpose of a U.S. body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Second, risks related to doing business in a changing physical environment, including increasingly severe extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and sea-level rise. Both types of risk vary considerably based on business type, size, and location. Fiedler, T., Pitman, A.J.,

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Grist

JULY 31, 2019

A recent NASA study found that, if warming continues at its current rate, Greenland alone could contribute 63 inches (over 5 feet) to global sea-level rise in the next 200 years — enough to swamp Miami Beach, Atlantic City, New Orleans, and parts of Boston and New York City, to name a few. This has not happened before.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

And indeed, some aspects of climate change, such as sea level rise, will go on well beyond that. In 2019, CCC chair Lord Deben suggested climate change adaptation preparations were being "run by the government like Dad's Army" , in reference to the BBC sitcom about a group of incompetent members of the Home Guard during WWII.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sea-level rise and storm surges alone could cost coastal cities USD 1 trillion each year by 2050, affecting more than 800 million people, the report estimated.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise. Sea-level rise is obvious here, according to Larry Toomer, who owns an oyster market and restaurant in Bluffton, a fast-growing town in the southern part of the county.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Fossil fuel companies have recognized the threat of climate change and extreme weather enough to raise their platforms because of sea level rise, build seawalls and floating gates, and publish climate resiliency reports — but not enough to stop fossil fuel expansion and start decarbonization. Swain echoed this. “I

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Trade wars and tariffs are all the rage in 2019. Populism : The rise of nationalism and radicalism may increase … or it won’t. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Trade wars and tariffs are all the rage in 2019. Populism : The rise of nationalism and radicalism may increase … or it won’t. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Congress between 2015 and 2019. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Sluggish progress on decarbonisation to date mean that greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030 and 60 per cent by 2035 on 2019 levels, according to the findings. Agriculture, forestry, fishery, energy, and tourism are identified as industries already facing acute impacts from climate change.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2019

Alaska ’s avg temperature for #July 2019 (58.1°F) — NOAA (@NOAA) August 7, 2019. Arctic sea ice accumulates over winter before receding as temperatures start to rise in spring. Across the Arctic, July set a new record low for sea ice extent , at 2.93 degrees above avg and 0.8 This heat, 5.4

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Wetlands are a unique habitat that filters water, sucks up carbon dioxide, and protects our coasts — but the triple threat of sea-level rise, pollution, and development is putting them at risk. So there you have it, folks — hope really is contagious. Science says so.

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