Grist

JULY 15, 2021

Preparing for the effects of climate change is not just about being ready for the next extreme weather event, like a hurricane, wildfire, or heat wave. the researchers found that this moon wobble effect is going to boost the number of flooding events significantly.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

As it flowed south on its way to the sea, the river continually poured sediment into the basin, gifting it with fresh, nutrient-rich river mud that replenished the land and prevented coastal erosion. But some scientists warn that sea-level rise is ultimately a wild card.

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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. Understanding events in the pre-satellite era requires measuring geological remnants of prior events.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Attribution science studies how greenhouse gas emissions contribute to specific extreme events such as storms, droughts, heatwaves or floods as well as slower changes in average temperature and rainfall. It found most did not quantify the extent to which climate change was responsible for the climate-related events affecting the plaintiffs.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

The unprecedented event reminded Joel Harper, a University of Montana glaciologist who works on the Greenland ice sheet, of a strange anomaly in his data, one that suggested that in 2008 it might have rained much later in the season — in the fall, when the region is typically in deep freeze and dark for almost 24 hours a day.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

NASA led an evaluation on the potential impacts of sea level rise on the Maldives with Planet imagery, highlighting the use of remote sensing for predicting shoreline change. PlanetScope image of flooding in the river Brahmaputra in Bangladesh. SkySat image of Malé in the Maldives. And many more….

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years. "Due

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As things currently stand, these homes are at high risk of mortgage default if they are uninsured when an extreme weather event occurs. per cent relative to the climate hazards they face, which include flooding from heavy rain and rivers, coastal flooding, and sea level rise. The report estimates that 1.86

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The number of cold fronts has decreased over the span of the last 20 years but at the same time, anomalous events have occurred more frequently.High-intensity Typhoons tend to occur more frequently as the mean sea level rose at a rate of 3 mm per year.Above is an overall image of climate change in Vietnam. 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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

“When you look at this ‘consumption’ number, it overshadows all the others,” Victoria Broje, a principal emergency management specialist for Shell and one of the report’s authors, told reporters at a media event on Wednesday. and Canada.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

Instead, you can read their shorter chapters on the scientific consensus on topics like extreme weather or regional changes in sea-level rise. With these models, scientists can ask: If the globe heats up by a specific amount, what might happen in terms of sea-level rise, droughts and the ice sheets?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

It will sit 55 feet above sea level, near an engineered harbor that provides physical barriers in the event of tsunamis or sea level rise. The battery will sit on eight acres of industrial-zoned land owned by Kapolei Properties, part of the Hawaii-based real estate firm James Campbell Company.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. of how the climate crisis affects people. Engage those most affected by the climate crisis.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

These weren’t isolated events. 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 region experienced at least four other serious floods in the years between.

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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. And RCP8.5 Taking out the uncertainty.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warns, “India will see increased heat waves and heavy rainfall events, while glaciers will melt further, along with more compound events from rising sea-levels like flooding.” The report further states that “unequivocal human.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

2021 has been a scorching year for extreme heat events across North America - cities across the usually temperate Pacific Northwest reached temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit in July. Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the equivalent of a year’s average rainfall fell in just three days in Zhengzhou, China, drowning commuters trapped on the subway system and leading to a mass evacuation event involving 200,000 people. The recent rate of sea level rise has nearly tripled compared to 1901-1971.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

The study was inspired by a continuous rise in the number of coastal floods across the world, and it builds upon previous research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Currently, about 148 million people experience flooding events across the world, but this could increase to 287 million by 2100.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Many of the sections acknowledge modest planetary warming, but assert that it is either good for species and ecosystems, or doesn’t really have the impacts on extreme weather events that climate scientists say it does.

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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. Many coastal areas will find it impossible (or extremely costly) to adapt to continued sea-level rise.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

These weren’t isolated events. 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 region experienced at least four other serious floods in the years between.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2022

"Today, 9,000 kilometres of open English coast is at risk from sea flooding, erosion and landslips, and by 2100 once-a-century sea level events are set to become annual events," she said. "As As a minimum, we need to plan for at least a metre rise of sea level rise by the end of the century.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Ben Margolis, Interim Director, said: “Time is quickly running down until the UN climate talks arrive in Glasgow in November for the biggest diplomatic event the UK has seen in decades – essential to limiting warming of the Earth to 1.5C The Prime Minister has pledged that the UK will show global leadership on climate change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In a UK first, developers in Wales will have to consult flood risk and coastal erosion maps than show not only current risk levels but the risk posed as the climate crisis worsens and sea levels rise, the devolved authority said.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They are also about storm surges that exacerbate sea level rise and cause widespread flooding. The National Hurricane Center called it "the most significant tropical cyclone rainfall event in US history." Hurricane Dorian is hardly the only extreme weather event we have seen in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Although more media outlets are increasingly covering more frequent and intense extreme weather events as symptoms of climate change, many experts are still tackling disinformation and efforts to downplay the link between the two. Water and forest management, and other human factors, contribute to the severity and likelihood of these events.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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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.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Severe weather events have limited access to sources of some crucial materials, and are exposing vulnerabilities across business operations and those of their suppliers. In fact, workplace disruptions caused by climate change could lead to more than $2 trillion in productivity losses by 2030.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

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 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? Extreme sea level events, such as coastal flooding, that occurred just once per century in the recent past, are projected to happen at least annually in 60 percent of places by 2100.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Extreme weather events. 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. Supply-chain shortages. Economic fallout. A path forward.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Sea level rises and climate change-driven coastal erosion - and the resulting breaches of flood defences - mean that relying on higher flood walls alone will not see communities winning the war against water. And in some cases, they can also create a false sense of security.

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