Coastal sensitivity to sea level rise has become a major issue in Canada and a nation wide overview published by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1998 demonstrates that there are low, moderate, and high sensitivity regions. Some of the most severely threatened coastal areas in Canada are ...
It provides concrete examples ofhowandwhereforest fires, agriculture, water availability, sea-level rise, marine life,drought mapping, and weather patterns will be transformed as a consequence of climate change. 10. If All the Ice Melted TheseNational Geographic Sea Level mapsshow the world as it...
Predicted sea level rise caused by anthropogenic climate change threatens to drastically alter coastlines around the world. In the case of low-lying atoll states, it threatens to expunge them from the map. This potential scenario has engendered considerable discussion concerning the fate of climate re...
In the most recent report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5), the median sea-level rise projections by the end of the century range from 16 inches for a low-end warming scenario to 2 feet for a high-end scenario (compared to the average sea level fr...
This study shows that expressing uncertainty about best- and worst-case effects of climate change on sea-level rise increases trust in climate scientists and message acceptance but not when the full extent of inevitable uncertainty due to unpredictable storm surges is also acknowledged. ...
The hope is that with the right amount of action towards change, global warming will not rise by 2.0 degrees or even 1.5 degrees. At the rate global warming is rising now and with no great actions being taken, th...
as well as human factors-like coastal building developments, all of which can affect a beach's health. The study found that sea level rise is expected to outweigh these other factors, and that the more heat-trapping gases humans put into the atmosphere, the worse the influences on the world...
The role of sea-level rise in the formation of peatlands in Maputaland. Boletim Geológico (Ministerio dos Recursos Minerais e Energia, Direccao Geral de Geologia Mozambique) 43, 58–67 (2004). Kirwan, M. L. & Mudd, S. M. Response of salt-marsh carbon accumulation to climate change....
The effects of sea-level rise on the future morphological functioning of estuaries are largely unknown because tidal amplitudes will change due to combined deepening of the estuary mouth and shifting amphidromic points at sea. Fluvial sediment supply is also globally decreasing, which hampers infilling...
Sea-Level Rise and Public Infrastructure—Climate change is already substantially influencing flows through central wastewater treatment systems in the coastal Carolinas. Performance analyses have shown significant effects of rainfall and temperature on I&I into sewage collection systems (Cahoon & Hanke, 20...