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sea level rise

Assessment Outlines Future Climate Changes, Impacts in SW

Date Posted: 
May 3, 2013
Publisher: 
Island Press

The Southwest U.S. will continue to get warmer over the 21st century, with fewer cold waves and longer, hotter heat waves, according to an expansive new book published by Island Press.

Global Warming to Increase CA Coastal Flooding

Date Posted: 
January 31, 2013
Publisher: 
U.S. Global Change Research Program

The frequency of flooding is expected to substantially increase over the 21st century in coastal California due to heavier rainfall from warming-induced intensification of the hydrologic cycle, sea-level rise, and storm surge.

Sea Level Rising Faster Than Predicted

Date Posted: 
November 30, 2012
Publisher: 
Environmental Research Letters

Sea level has been rising 60 percent faster than the best estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past two decades, according to a new study published in Environmental Research Le

22-Foot Sea Level Rise by 3000?

Date Posted: 
October 5, 2012
Publisher: 
Environmental Research Letters

Even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, global sea levels would continue to rise by about 3.6 feet by the year 3000, according to a recently published study in Environmental Research Letters.

Sea Levels along CA, Northeast Coasts Rising Faster than Average

Date Posted: 
June 29, 2012
Publisher: 
Nature Climate Change/National Academy of Sciences

Three new studies assess predicted sea level rise both locally—U.S. west and east coasts—and globally.

Groundwater Pumping a Large Contributor to Sea Level Rise

Date Posted: 
May 24, 2012
Publisher: 
Nature Geoscience

About 42 percent of the observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003, or about 0.03 inches per year, were from sources other than thermal expansion and melting glaciers and ice sheets, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience.

Millions Face Sea Level Rise Flood Risk

Date Posted: 
March 22, 2012
Publisher: 
Environmental Research Letters

Over 3 million people in the U.S. could face the threat of sea level rise within the next century, according to a new study in Environmental Research Letters.

Climate Change Will Necessitate Flexible Planning in CA Bay-Delta-River System

Date Posted: 
November 10, 2011
Publisher: 
PLoS ONE

A new study published in PLoS ONE by USGS scientists and other colleagues investigates the likely impacts of climate change on the biology, geography, and water supplies of California’s San Francisco Bay-Delta-River System.

San Francisco Establishes New Guidelines for Building Along Shorelines

Date Posted: 
October 14, 2011
Publisher: 
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission proposed an amendment to its original climate change bay plan.

Water Is Rising: Music and Dance Amid Climate Change

Evening performance will be held at Centennial Hall at 8pm. Panel Discussion will be held in the Center for Creative Photography, Rm. 108 from 12-1pm.

Event Date and Time: 
October 21, 2011
Location: 
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ