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. Two elephant seals in the Southern Oceans arguing about marine ice cliff instability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sea level rise presents numerous climate justice issues. New research that I led as part of my PhD dissertation, which was just published in Earth’s Future , digs deep into the topic of sea level rise and climate justice. Climate justice research can help inform these conversations.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern Europe.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 23, 2025

( ) According to scholars, in the poem The Sea and the Butterfly , beloved Korean poet Kim Kirim uses the sea to illustrate the harsh reality of his times and the butterfly to express the fragility of life in the face of adversity. Just like in the poem, the ocean remains largely undiscovered, unknown.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2024

While nonbinding, the unanimous advisory opinion offers important support for small island nations facing climate impacts and raises the bar for other nations to reduce their global warming emissions to protect the world’s oceans. Lays out polluting nations’ obligations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Whats the point of a beach adventure if you cant even go into the ocean? In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), How does raw sewage end up in our oceans and rivers? miles into the Pacific Ocean near Ocean Beach. San Francisco City and County v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

An expert on sea level dynamics and climate justice within the UN negotiations, Dr. Sadai is working to ensure that her scientific studies get in the hands of decisionmakers who are shaping our world today. UCS’s new Hitz Family Climate fellow, Dr. Shaina Sadai , is stepping into this emerging area of work.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2024

This post was co-authored with Natalya Gomez , Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Geodynamics of Ice sheet – Sea level interactions at McGill University. As the Earth’s air and oceans warm, the ice sheet is starting to melt at an ever-faster rate.

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Real Climate

MARCH 12, 2025

Guest commentary by Robert Hart, Kerry Emanuel , & Lance Bosart The National Weather Service (NWS) and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), delivers remarkable value to the taxpayers. This efficiency can be demonstrated by its enormous return on investment.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Some of the CO2 will get slowly absorbed into the ocean over a long period of time, but the ocean will also gradually release some of the heat it has been absorbing. Changes in the oceans will continue over a long period of time. What about really long-term sea level rise? With warming between 1.5°

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It shows the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and tells a story about the carbon cycle, involving Earth’s crust, the atmosphere, land surface, the biosphere, and the oceans. The Keeling curve, highlighted with the release of important climate reports and climate summits.

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New Scientist

APRIL 26, 2024

In addition to the overall rise in sea level, the heights of tides are also changing as the oceans warm and separate into more distinct layers

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Moreover, changes in the Arctic have a huge impact on weather patterns north of the equator, including polar vortex disturbances, changes to ocean currents, and extreme heat domes. Shrinking Greenland ice sheet and mountain glaciers also contribute to accelerating sea level rise. in Arc2024 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

If you live in a coastal zone and have looked at maps of future sea level rise or have read about how climate change could be slowed with policy changes to reduce emissions, youve likely seen these scenarios in action. Lower-emission scenarios (SSP1-2.6) Meanwhile, an intermediate scenario (SSP2-4.5)

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. At a rate of 400 feet per year, saltwater is migrating west from the ocean to once-secure inland groundwater reserves. Hilton Head is fast becoming a prominent test case of rising sea levels and intense coastal storms heralded by climate change.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 26, 2024

By Bob Berwyn The realm of island nations spread across the vast Southwestern Pacific Ocean can conjure up an idyllic image of tiny tropical gems scattered on a deep blue jewelry table. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the climate crisis will leave many people stranded “without a lifeboat.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

A new analysis out today and led by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reveals a significant amount of critical infrastructure along US coastlines at risk of disruptive flooding today and in the near future as sea level rises, potentially affecting millions of coastal residents.

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Earth 911

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sea level rise due to melting glaciers on Greenland and in the Arctic and Antarctic. The post Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander Shares a 2023 Sea Level Rise Update appeared first on Earth911.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The global average sea level is rising 2 inches per decade and speeding up, but in some regions, the rate is more than twice that fast.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. For the part entering the ocean as ice, we must also consider that to melt ice requires energy. Greenland ice melt. or other estimates). References. Trenberth, K. & Fasullo, J.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2022

The ocean covers 71% of the planet and holds nearly 97% of the Earth’s water, and about 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of the coastline. What is Bluetech? Spotlight on SeaAhead.

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New Scientist

JULY 25, 2023

Climate researchers thought that current sea levels were the highest in more than 100,000 years, but new models suggest oceans were higher during the Holocene than they are today

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 27, 2025

The persistent loss of water from land to oceans has dried out huge portions of every continent and may be irreversible, scientists describing the new research said this week.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2022

by Jianjun Yin, University of Arizona Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that the U.S.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Disruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current could freeze Europe, scorch the tropics and increase sea level rise in the North Atlantic. By Bob Berwyn A new study affirms that a critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents that shunt warm and cold water between the poles is “on course” to a tipping point.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. CO 2 also has an additional effect: it makes the oceans more acidic when dissolved in seawater. mm increase every year.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 2, 2021

High tides are part of the problem, but there’s another risk that has been slowly creeping up: sea level rise. Since 1880, average global sea levels have risen… Read more → East Coast has been experiencing hurricane-like flooding in recent days, with Georgia and the Carolinas getting the latest round.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. My emphasis.).

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 In coastal counties, which are home to about 40% of the United States’ population, critical water infrastructure is growing more vulnerable to climate change and faces a host of compounding hazards such as sea level rise and flooding, heavy precipitation and extreme storm surges.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When we think about the age of the dinosaurs, we often forget about what was swimming in the ocean during that period. Global sea levels were high during the Mesozoic period in which dinosaurs ruled the earth. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Mosasaurus. ©

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 19, 2021

Maya Canonizado is a Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. Growing up and living on the coast her whole life sparked her love for the ocean and the desire to protect it from a young age. Before I started working for Ocean Conservancy, I browsed through this very website. Never miss an update.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. degrees Celsius. If we warm beyond 1.5°C, If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Think about what is involved – biological proxies from extinct species, plate tectonic movement, disappearance in subduction zones of vast amounts of ocean sediment, interpolating sparse data in space and time, degradation of samples over such vast amounts of time. All of which adds to the uncertainty. van der Meer, C.R. Scotese, B.J.

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