Keeping Our Heads Above Water

Researchers finally estimate single figure for global sea level rises allvoices Global warming has led to rise in sea levels as increased global temperatures have slowly melted away the polar ice caps. While this is commonly known, the exact amount by which sea levels have risen was not until recently, when a new study, for the … See all stories on this topic »

Researcher studies sea–level change Tasley Eastern Shore News WILLIAMSBURG — The effects of storm surge and sea–level rise have become topics of everyday conversation in the month following Hurricane Sandy’s catastrophic landfall along the mid-Atlantic coast. Ongoing research by professor John Brubaker of the … See all stories on this topic »

New study on rising sea levels likely confirms existence of global warming Science Recorder A newly released study finds that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are disappearing three times faster than they were two decades ago, the latest evidence supporting the existence of global warming. The study was published in the journal Science … See all stories on this topic » Science Recorder

The Buzz This Week about Rising Sea Levels IEEE Spectrum “Altogether, Greenland and Antarctica are now losing more than three times as much ice (equivalent to 0.95 mm of sea level rise per year) as they were in the 1990s (equivalent to 0.27 mm of sea level rise per year).” Shepherd’s group finds that … See all stories on this topic » IEEE Spectrum

Keeping Our Heads Above Water Wall Street Journal Sea level normally varies from place to place, due to prevailing ocean currents, water temperature, salinity, seafloor topography and the irregularities of gravity. Rising temperatures and meltwater are expanding oceans. Seasonal climate cycles, such … See all stories on this topic »

Hurricane Season Draws to Close, Sandy Begs for Action Clean Energy News (blog) It doesn’t take much of a rise in sea level to affect how much more land gets flooded in a big storm. As Ben Strauss from Climate Central states, “In some places it takes only a few inches of sea–level rise to convert a once in a century storm to a … See all stories on this topic »

Ice from Greenland and Antarctica definitely melting into the sea, scientists say Catholic Online Scientists now say that the ice melting away from Greenland is now melting as much as five times faster as it was in the late 1990s. The study published in “Science” says this is directly responsible for the 20 percent rise in sea level over the past … See all stories on this topic »

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