Sea Level | Grist

Arctic sea ice is refreezing quite slowly. Go figure! 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Now you see it now you don't

Disappearing beaches in Gambia 0
Posted 1 month ago Hotel managers in Gambia say without the beach the tourists will not come but the beach in front of the country’s two landmark hotels is disappearing pretty fast. It is a very serious state of affairs for a country that derives a major percentage of its income from tourism.
Trouble with chicks

Where the Sahara meets the Atlantic 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The Banc d'Arguin, where the Sahara meets the Atlantic in Mauritania, is a staging post for over two million exhausted migratory birds from Europe and Siberia. This vital geographic point is threatened by climate change.
a sea change in climate

As the land disappears, an Indian tribe plans to abandon its ancestral Louisiana home 6
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago For at least 170 years, Isle de Jean Charles -- a narrow ridge of land lying between Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Pointe-aux-Chene in southeastern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish -- has been home to members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha tribe, native people related to the Choctaw and part of a larger confederation of Muskogees. But the tribe's history is about to take a dramatic turn due to climate change.
You'll love the camel...

Mont St Michel—flushing the meadows 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Mont St Michel is France's most popular tourist attraction outside Paris. Tourists flock to admire its ethereal beauty, shrouded in sea mist and cut off from the mainland by the sea. However, this Arthurian vision is threatened by the very industry that champions it.
Around a rising sea

Expedition to link students in support of climate action 1
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Atlantic Rising is an educational expedition around the Atlantic rim tracing the 1-meter contour line -- the Atlantic coastline as it will look in 100 years if sea levels rise as predicted.
More than a pretty slogan

Climate plus security minus hyperbole still scary 0
Posted 3 months ago
The impact of climate change on national security has finally moved above the fold. And as the December Copenhagen climate change negotiations approach, politicians and experts alike are being forced to examine the complex effects of natural and social change on security. They must also walk a linguistic tightrope between hyperbole and uncertainty, working to present the facts without exaggerating their meaning. So how do they maintain balance while climate security arguments are touted as a way to compel a tough climate agreement in Copenhagen? The short answer: It won't be easy.
Local warming

Pacific Northwest says goodbye to salmon, skiing; hello to heat waves 3
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
What could a 10-degree temperature change mean for life in the Northwest? The U.S. report on climate change impacts has some scary regional predictions.
High Waters Ahead

Greenland ice sheet could raise East Coast sea levels 20 inches by 2100 - to over 6 feet 4
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The eastern United States must plan on the very real possibility that total sea level rise by 2100 will exceed 6 feet on our current emissions path.
Destructive Storms are Sucking Financial Resources Dry

A warming world means more destructive storms 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Elevated global temperatures bring a number of threats, including rising seas and more crop-withering heat waves. Higher surface water temperatures in the tropical oceans also provide more energy to drive tropical storm systems, leading to more-destructive hurricanes and typhoons. The combination of rising seas, more powerful storms, and stronger storm surges can be devastating.
Media matters

‘The Next Wave’ chronicles the climate change refugees 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
"The Next Wave" by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger follows the Carteret islanders as they take steps to relocate their South Pacific community in the face of rising seas.
New York Times runs absurdly misleading headline on Revkin’s sea level rise (non)story 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Icier Depths

Q: How much can West Antarctica plausibly contribute to sea-level rise by 2100? 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Pack to the Future

Umbra on climate-induced relocation 2
Posted 3 years, 7 months ago