Sea Level Rise

The Global Risks Report 2019

The world is facing the increased risk of political confrontations between major powers, which is hindering solutions to challenges like climate change warns the 14th edition of Global risks report.

Publication Date:

16/01/2019

Source: World Economic Forum

Tags:

Extreme Weather Events, Climate Change, Environment, India, Global, Sea Level Rise

Climate Change

Climate, conflict and forced migration

Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as well as to the migration crisis in Europe. Exploiting bilateral data on asylum seeking applications for 157 countries over the period 2006–2015, we assess the determinants of refugee flows using a gravity model which accounts for endogenous selection in order to examine the causal link between climate, conflict and forced migration.

Publication Date:

01/01/2019

Author(s): Guy J. Abel, Michael Brottrager, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma & et al

Source: Global Environmental Change

Vol:

54

pp:

239-249

Tags:

Climate Change, Conflicts, Migration, Displacement, Rainfall Pattern, Drought, Natural Disaster, Africa, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Floods, Storms, Sea Level Rise, Cyclones, Syria, Refugees

Climate Change

Wintertime heat melting Greenland's ice sheet: Scientists

Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest in the world, is melting in winter due to heat from the ocean, recent research says.

Publication Date:

26/12/2018

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

Tags:

Global Warming, Scientists, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change

Climate Change

Explaining extreme events of 2017 from a climate perspective

This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events. This is the second year that scientists have identified extreme weather events that they said could not have happened without warming of the climate through human-induced climate change.

Publication Date:

10/12/2018

Source: American Meteorological Society

Tags:

Extreme Weather Events, Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Droughts, Heat Waves

Climate Change

World 'way off course', UN warns at crunch climate summit

KATOWICE, POLAND: The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned on Monday as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to a

Publication Date:

04/12/2018

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide, Sea Level Rise

Climate Change

RegionsAdapt 2018 report: multi-level governance in climate change adaptation

This report reflects the data disclosed by 38 regional governments that are members of the 'RegionsAdapt' initiative.

Publication Date:

01/12/2018

Source: Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Governance, Extreme Weather Events, Heat Waves, Sea Level Rise

Climate Change

The State of the Global Climate in 2018

The long-term warming trend has continued in 2018, with the average global temperature set to be the fourth highest on record. The 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years, with the top four in the past four years, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Publication Date:

29/11/2018

Source: World Meteorological Organization

Tags:

Climate, Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, India, Global, Sea Level Rise, Climate Impacts

Climate Change

Rising sea levels threatening historic lighthouses

MAURICE RIVER TOWNSHIP: Rising seas and erosion are threatening lighthouses around the U.S. and the world.

Publication Date:

23/11/2018

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Climate Impacts, Global Warming

Climate Change

TN has become warmer over the years: Experts

Coimbatore: The state had witnessed a rise in temperature by 0.02C every year between 1951 and 2010 and it has affected the mercury levels in the day and at night, said a weather expert here on Tue

Publication Date:

31/10/2018

Source: Times Of India (Coimbatore)

Tags:

Tamil Nadu, Climate Change, Monsoons, Sea Level Rise, Climate Impacts

Climate Change

Near‐surface environmentally forced changes in the Ross Ice Shelf observed with ambient seismic noise

Continuous seismic observations across the Ross Ice Shelf reveal ubiquitous ambientresonances at frequencies >5 Hz. These ﬁrn-trapped surface wave signals arise through wind and snowbedform interactions coupled with very low velocity structures.