Ben Strauss on Rising Seas & the Fate of New York on PBS. By Climate Central Ben Strauss, COO of Climate Central and director of our program on sea level rise, appeared on PBS NewsHour to discuss the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, as well as the long-term challenges that sea level rise poses to coastal cities such as New York. Related Content Sea Level Rise: Floods Threaten Coastal U.S. Rising Seas a Real Threat to New Jersey Senate Hearing Focuses on Threat of Sea Level Rise Sea Level Rise Threatens Hundreds of U.S. Energy Facilities. Florida leads nation in property at risk from climate change | Miami Herald. Florida has more private property at risk from flooding linked to climate change than any other state, an amount that could double in the next four decades, according to a new report by the Risky Business Project. By 2030, $69 billion in coastal property in Florida could flood at high tide that is not at risk today, the report found.
That amount is projected to climb to $152 billion by 2050. While projections for rising seas are not new, for the first time researchers tried to quantify the economic damage wrought by climate change by better understanding the risks to business and a rebounding economy. Growth in manufacturing and energy production have created a mini boom in the Southeast and Texas, the report said. But climate change threatens to undo that progress and cause widespread damage to the region’s economic pillars: manufacturing, agriculture and energy. For Florida, the blows are significant and not only for property. “The sea-rise numbers are out there. “Paulson gets it.
Newsroom : Study finds CO2 behind ancient global warming event. Study finds CO2 behind ancient global warming event [Date: 2010-11-23] A global warming event of the Middle Eocene period 40 million years ago was triggered by increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, new EU-funded research shows. The finding, published in the journal Science, could help scientists predict how CO2 may impact global warming in the future. This latest study was funded in part by the DINOPRO ('From Protist to proxy: dinoflagellates as signal carriers for climate and carbon cycling during past and present extreme climate transitions') project, which clinched a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth EUR 1.5 million under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to develop and apply a sophisticated method for the integrated reconstruction of past changes in carbon cycling and climate change.
Experts agree that our planet warmed up for a short time, disrupting the long-term cooling that had been in progress for 10 million years. How High Will Seas Rise? Get Ready for Seven Feet by Rob Young and Orrin Pilkey. 14 Jan 2010: Opinion by rob young and orrin pilkey The reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are balanced and comprehensive documents summarizing the impact of global warming on the planet. But they are not without imperfections, and one of the most notable was the analysis of future sea level rise contained in the latest report, issued in 2007. Given the complexities of forecasting how much the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets will contribute to increases in global sea level, the IPCC chose not to include these giant ice masses in their calculations, thus ignoring what is likely to be the most important source of sea level rise in the 21st century.
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A tiny island claimed for nearly 30 years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say. The uninhabited territory south of the Hariabhanga river was known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, the School of Oceanographic Studies in Calcutta said. New Moore Island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, Sugata Hazra, oceanographer and professor of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University in Calcutta, said.
"What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming," he said. Anyone wishing to visit now, he observed, would have to think of travelling by submarine. Rising sea levels At least 10 other islands in the area were at risk as well, Hazra said. Rising waters threaten Nile Delta - Focus. Deep inside the waterways of the Nile Delta, it is hard to believe that this region is in an environmental crisis. It is an idyllic setting as the canoes of fishermen drift through the swamps; kingfishers and egrets fly overhead, and reeds glisten in the early morning sunshine. But the fishermen are not happy. They say their catches are down, and that the water is more and more polluted from nearby factories.
There is certainly enormous pressure on the Delta's resources; most of Egypt's 80 million people are crammed into this fertile, green landscape, where the Nile ends its epic journey half the length of Africa, and fans out into a series of tributaries and lakes, before flowing into the Mediterranean. I ask the fishermen if they know about global warming, and the threat to the Delta posed by the possibility of sea-levels rising. They say they have heard about it, but have seen no evidence yet. We leave the fishermen, and drive north, closer to the Mediterranean coastline.