Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 20, 2024
In an era when massive heat domes blanket large swaths of continents for days, wildfires burn through areas the size of small countries, and hurricanes regularly push the limits of what we once thought possible, sea level rise can seem like extreme weather’s low-key cousin. Since 1993, sea level has risen by an average rate of 3.1
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Sea level rise presents numerous climate justice issues. Some of the venues where people are addressing the injustices of climate change are UN climate negotiations, the courts, and community organizing efforts around the world. Climate justice research can help inform these conversations.
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Legal Planet
AUGUST 30, 2023
The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. local land use planning that implements sea level rise adaptation strategies). In fact, the U.S.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Imperial Beach is one of many California communities vulnerable to sea level rise. This week, Senator Ben Allen introduced SB 1078 , a bill that would create a Sea Level Rise Revolving Loan Pilot Program to help coastal cities plan proactively for the effects of climate change. Photo credit: sk8mama, Flickr.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 24, 2024
A new map tool from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows you where and when critical pieces of coastal infrastructure such as public housing buildings, schools and power plants are at risk of repeated, disruptive flooding due to climate change-driven sea level rise. Photo credit: Ben Neely/MyCoast.org.
Real Climate
MAY 12, 2021
Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty. Meanwhile Bedmap3 is underway.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change and the terrifying effects of it that we see happening across the world. That makes this dataset a powerful tool for understanding how each of these entity’s heat-trapping emissions have contributed to climate change.
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