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• Martin Vermeer & Stefan Rahmstorf, PNAS 2009, Global sea level linked to global temperature

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 488
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , published online before print December 7, 2009; doi: 10.1073/pnas.0907765106 Global sea level linked to global temperature Martin Vermeer * ( Department of ...
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• A. K. Tripati, C. D. Roberts & R. A. Eagle, Science 326 (2009), Coupling of CO2 and ice sheet stability over major climate transitions of the last 20 million years

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 488
  Science , (4 December 2009) Vol. 326, No. 5958, pp. 1394-1397; DOI: 10.1126/science.1178296 Coupling of CO 2 and ice sheet stability over major climate transitions of the last 20 million years Aradhna K. Tripati * ( Departments of Earth and Space Sciences and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Institute of ...
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• Sea levels may rise three times more than first thought

  
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  Steve Connor in the Independent (UK) : Sea levels may rise three times faster than the official predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the global average sea level may increase by as much as 1.9 metres (6ft 3in) by 2100, scientists said yesterday. The new assessment comes just one week ...
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• In Bangladesh, climate change refugees flee to cities

  
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  Ian Williams in NBC News : If climate change does lead to a 3-foot rise in sea levels around Bangladesh by mid-century, as some scientists predict, … Its an aspect of global warming thats only now being more fully appreciated, but which Atiq Rahman, the countrys leading environmentalist, calls one of the biggest ...
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• Climate Projections Underestimate CO2 Impact

  
  USGS Newsroom — Authority: 455
  The climate may be 30–50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience yesterday.  Projections over the next hundreds of years of climate conditions, including global temperatures, may need to be adjusted to ...
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• Sea level rise, upriver dams bring coastal erosion to Thailand

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 488
  by Richard Sargent , – December 7, 2009 KHUN SAMUTCHINE, Thailand (AFP) – Surrounded by water, a Buddhist temple is one of the last remnants of a Thai village that has vanished beneath the sea -- a scene being repeated across Asia and the world. Around 60 families have already been forced away from the ...
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• Malta eyes water shortages and the coast

  
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  Caroline Muscat in the Times of Malta : What do tiny Malta and the entire African continent have in common? Their contribution to climate change is negligible but they will be among the hardest hit. Malta lies in the middle of the two most vulnerable regions to threats imposed by climate change, according to a ...
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• Google’s California Global Warming Maps Not There Yet

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 147
  With much hurrah in the media yesterday, I downloaded the Google plugin to see if my home will be flooded, according to the map projections in a project between the State of California and Google, a California-based company. Projected flood zones are shown near Google’s offices in the San Francisco Bay Area in this ...
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• BBC: Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 488
  1 December 2009 E-mail this to a friend Printable version Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts ...
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• A bleak outlook if temperatures rise 7.2 F degrees

  
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  Red Orbit via Agence France-Presse : If the Earth’s temperature rises by a mere seven degrees, the planet would become a very hostile environment. Experts are now warning that a 7.2 F increase is indeed a likely scenario. If this occurs, oceans would rise 3.25 feet, submerging several island nations. Polar bears ...
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• Let’s go swimming.

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 133
  It’s  2100 and the world’s seas will have risen by at least 1.4 meters. London is mostly under water like Amsterdam… At the very least…. sea levels will rise by almost five feet without anything but a 2C warming and assuming no other major climate forcing events or catastrophes. With 3C warming the sea ...
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• Dimitry Olov: Sea level rise and the future of the U.S. East Coast with Boston as a well-defined example of infrastructure loss

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 488
  The Oceans are Coming Part II — Living on the Land Are you still talking about Cyclone Nargis? Have you ever heard of Cyclone Nargis? Here’s a reminder: on 1 May 2008 a weakening low-pressure system suddenly picked up energy as it approached Burma from the Bay of Bengal. By the second day of this rapid ...
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• Climate victims

  
  Places and Spaces — Authority: 134
  Britains Times Online reports on recent international news in sea level rise . They mention Tuvalu, which is getting more attention these days, as well as the 2005 abandonment of Papau New Guineas Carteret Atoll . If that gets you down, maybe the Climategate news may refocus you.
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• 10% of Population Will be Affected by Sea-Level Rise

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 420
  Only a week to go and the climate sceptics seem to be popping up everywhere, trying to undermine the Copenhagen conference. But what they can’t stop is the damning new credible scientific evidence that is being produced. One such study is from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The SCAR study ...
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• Rising sea level poses risk to Qatar, neighbours

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 488
  Rising sea level poses risk to Qatar, neighbours Web posted at: 11/28/2009 1:25:6 Source ::: The Peninsula . / BY SATISH KANADY DOHA: Sea Level Rise (SLR) is posing big risk to Qatar. Like most other Arab countries, the bulk of Qatar’s economic activity, agriculture and ...
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• CNN: Sea level rise could cost port cities $28 trillion

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 488
  Sea level rise could cost port cities $28 trillion The melting of ice caps in Greenland and the Antarctic could mean sea levels rising by 0.5 meters, the report says. Possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $28 trillion worth of assets, report says by Peter ...
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• Boston faces deep risk from sea level rise

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 511
  Some local reaction to the WWF/Allianz report on impacts, from the Boston Globe : Brace yourself Boston: Sea level rise from climate change could jeopardize Hub assets worth $463 billion. A new report out by World Wildlife Fund and insurer Allianz warns that sea levels could rise along the U.S. coast a whopping 26 ...
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• Submerged forest at Broughton Bay

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  The ragged tree stumps and roots, strewn over the seashore at Broughton Bay on the north coast of the Gower Peninsula, are the remains of a birch tundra woodland that once covered the ancient land surface. They lie in position, just as they were growing before they were inundated. Ten thousand years ago in the ...
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• Copenhagen Diagnosis Reveals Dire Climate Future

  
  REALscience — Authority: 460
  just as world leaders are getting ready to head to Denmark for a big climate negotiations conference that will determine the treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, a new scientific assessment is painting a dark picture of the future, based on recent climate science. Though not an official report of the United Nations ...
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• Arab World Among the Most Vulnerable to Climate Change

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 541
  Though water is already scarce and food production will decline in the region, most Arab countries are doing little to prepare, reports say. Food production in the Arab world will be hurt by sea level rises and water scarcity exacerbated by climate change, concluded two reports released last week, according to ...
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