Global Warming means 20 Metre sea level rise in the pipeline say scientists
Scientists studying the geological record have determined that at slightly above current temperatures we are about 20 metres below what the sea level equilibrium should be. Sea levels are increasing...
View ArticleSea Level rising 60% faster than IPCC projections
Originally posted at Indybay.org Sea Level is rising 60% faster than IPCC projections according to a new climate change related study comparing the actual rise in CO2 concentration, global temperature...
View ArticleIs Climate Change causing an exponential rate of Ice sheet Mass Loss, sea...
Greenland Ice Mass change rate 2012Climate scientist James Hansen and his colleague Makiko Sato have released a new discussion paper with updated data on ice sheet mass loss from Greenland and...
View ArticleAustralia gives foreign aid to Kiribati to combat climate change as new coal...
sealevels rising in Kiribati: Waves crashing on a house - KiribatiAt the start of this week Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced that Australia would fund repairs to 40 kilometres of main...
View ArticleWetlands at risk by type and region
Image from Blankespoor, Brian; Dasgupta, Susmita; Laplante, Benoit; 1 November 2012, Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands : impacts and costs (abstract), World Bank Policy Research working paper ; no....
View ArticleWetlands across regions
Image from Blankespoor, Brian; Dasgupta, Susmita; Laplante, Benoit; 1 November 2012, Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands : impacts and costs (abstract), World Bank Policy Research working paper ; no....
View ArticleSeagrass projected to drastically decline with sea level rise
To most of us, what is hidden beneath the waves of our coastal environment remains invisible and is little thought about or cared about. Yet seagrass meadows, though hidden from our direct view,...
View ArticleLongterm sea level rise estimated at 2.3 metres for every degree Celsius of...
Long term sea level rise: Photo by Takver"Continuous sea-level rise is something we cannot avoid unless global temperatures go down again," said climate scientist Anders Levermann from the Postdam...
View ArticleIce Sheets and Sea level: what the past tells us is likely
Watch this informative video By Peter Sinclair and the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media on ice sheet collapse and sea level rise and past climates. "We are still potentially underestimating...
View ArticlePalau: Will fleeing home be the last resort as the climate changes?
KAROR, PALAU, 14 January 2014 (IRIN) - Salustiano Albert has lived in Palau, an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean comprising over 500 islands, for more than three decades. Part of his family...
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