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Rising sea levels: A tale of two cities - Maputo, Rotterdam
"When people talk about the impact of rising sea levels, they often think of small island states that risk being submerged if global warming continues unchecked.
But it's not only those on low-lying islands who are in danger. Millions of people live by the sea - and are dependent on it for their livelihoods - and many of the world's largest cities are on the coast.
By 2050 the number of people living in delta cities is set to increase by as much as 70%, experts suggest, vastly increasing the number of those at risk.
To shed light the impact of rising sea levels, we are taking a close look at two very different cities, Rotterdam and Maputo , and their varying responses to the problem. "
Video: Maldives president holds underwater cabinet meeting | Environment | guardian.co.uk
"Cabinet sign SOS memo to raise awareness of threat of rising sea levels to their country"
Rise in sea levels can't be reversed - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Even if carbon emissions were cut to zero immediately, sea levels would continue to rise through the coming centuries, scientists say. A likely projection is an increase of up to five meters over 300 years.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Seas 'threaten 20m in Bangladesh'
Up to 20 million people in low-lying Bangladesh are at risk from sea-level rise in the coming decades, according to new research.
Tiny nation at war with rising tide - Winnipeg Free Press
A tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean -- that could be wiped off the map because of global warming -- is seeking to to set an example for the world by shedding its dependency on oil and becoming powered entirely by renewable energy sources.
Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Scientists say between 10,000 and 13,500 square kilometres of coastal land around New Orleans will go underwater due to rising sea levels and subsidence
Global warming causing mass migration - UPI.com
Global warming will submerge island states, destroy farmland and force millions of people into migration by 2050, according to a report unveiled at climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany.
High Water: Greenland ice sheet melting faster than expected and could raise East Coast sea levels an extra 20 inches by 2100 — to more than 6 feet
The eastern United States must plan on the very real possibility that total sea level rise by 2100 will exceed 6 feet on our current emissions path.
Polar regions found warming fast, raising sea levels | Reuters
The Arctic and Antarctic regions are warming faster than previously thought, raising world sea levels and making drastic global climate change more likely than ever, international scientists said on Wednesday.
Sea level rise could be worse than anticipated
f global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be significantly higher than is currently projected, a new study concludes.
The catastrophic increase in sea level, already projected to average between 16 and 17 feet around the world, would be almost 21 feet in such places as Washington, D.C., scientists say, putting it largely underwater. Many coastal areas would be devastated. Much of Southern Florida would disappear.
The Human Toll of Climate Change: Vietnam
A recent report from the World Bank assessing the threat of sea level rise to poor nations ranked Vietnam as the most vulnerable country. One meter of sea level rise could potentially displace 8.6 million people, about 10.8 percent of the population, who live along the coast and in low-lying areas.
Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Venice flooding provides glimpse of what’s to come
One of the highest tides in its history brought Venice to a virtual halt, rekindling a debate over a plan to build moveable flood barriers in an effort to save the lagoon city from high tides.
City officials said the tide peaked at 61 inches (156 centimeters), well past the 40-inch (110-centimeter) flood mark, as strong winds pushed the sea into the city.
A Deep Thaw: How Much Will Vanishing Glaciers Raise Sea Levels?: Scientific American
sea level rise from all other melting ice and the expansion of seawater as the weather gets warmer over the next century would be somewhere between 2.6 feet (0.8 meter) and six feet (two meters)—or nearly twice as much as projected last year by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Sea level rises could far exceed IPCC estimates - climate-change - 01 September 2008 - New Scientist Environment
"To what extent this dynamic response of the Laurentide ice sheet to past temperature change can be considered analogous to present and future reduction of the Greenland ice sheet remains unresolved," they say in an associated commentary. "But their work suggests that future reductions of the Greenland ice sheet on the order of one metre per century are not out of the question."
If Carlson's estimates are correct, they show that 2007 predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a sea-level rise of between 18 centimetres and 59 cm by 2100 – are very conservative, as the IPCC acknowledged at the time.
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