The book The Attacking Ocean by Brian Fagan is about how the sea is rising at an extraordinary rate and devouring our coastlines. Sea level rising is caused by many factors like the moon, the melting of ice caps and natural and human disasters. One hundred and fifty meters is how high sea level has risen since the Ice Age. The ocean is always rising its celerity is unquestioned by many. The ocean has shown its power throughout history one historical moment that frightened the world, I can recall is when in 2011 a tsunami hit japan 's nuclear plant. That nuclear plant leaked a lot of radiation and it spread. History will repeat itself until the world comes together and comes up with a solution to the growing oceans. The industrial revolution gave way for greenhouse gasses and the in these last few hundred years we have only pushed the acceleration pedal on our death. …show more content…
If the ocean warms up than hurricanes can bring more force to the lands around it. Hurricane sandy and Hurricane Katrina and many more have shown us how much stronger and bigger these storms get each time. “When fossil fuels like coal came into widespread use it’s hard for us to imagine just how different the world was twenty one thousand years ago”(Fegan 6). Fegan refers to humans ruining our environment. He states that the emissions over these last few hundred years has added to the rising sea that 's attacking our low lands along the water. The emissions, burn fossil fuels that make the water warmer. The north used to be covered in so much ice the U.S and Greenland and much of the south on both sides had lots of ice. Water from the melted ice caps is just adding to the sea levels and the hurricanes are just moving the water into the low level areas and devastating
Sea level rise: As of January 2015, globally the sea levels measured 61.91 mm. Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water coming from the melting of land ice and the expansion of sea water as it
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While it is hard to directly connect Hurricane Sandy to global warming, it is clear that warmer waters and increased sea level contributed to the severity of the storm. Higher sea levels increase the chance that hurricane winds will bring more water on land and storm surges that reach further inland. The Atlantic region is already experiencing sea level rise, and globally this trend is expected to continue. Ocean temperatures are also on the rise, an...
As modern humans, we have been innovators. We have solved many problems that many would have thought to be impossible such as going to the moon for instance. We have been posed with many problems and have come up with many solutions. Unfortunately many of the problems we faced were something such as “in the heat of the moment” situations. Unfortunately sea level rise is a slow process, so many people would not see this as a problem until we have shot ourselves in the foot. With rapid globalization taking hold in developing nations, more and more carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere. We as a planet must prepare for the worst because sea levels will creep higher into our cities. Even though we may be able to slow the rise of the oceans with carbon emissions, it still will not be enough to save our cities. Our homes and history will have been lost to the sea if we do not act soon to protect our c...
In Boston, climate change has already started to take it’s effect on the city. Days get hotter sooner in the year, it snows less, but most troubling of it all for me is the rising of the ocean. At first glance it may not seem like a urgent thing to be worried about. Who cares if the water’s a little higher up? But if the sea continues to rise and we don’t prepare for it, our city could take massive damage from flooding. Scott K. Johnson, who has a master’s in Hydrogeology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says “While rising sea levels do threaten to simply inundate some areas around the harbor, they also limit the effectiveness of drainage systems, which function based on the lower elevation of ocean water.”
mplication because as sea levels being to rise, sections of land which were not exposed to the sea are now in direct contact and begin to undergo the process of beach erosion. The tides become more powerful and more and more sediment is washed out to sea. Global warming has also been connected to the development of more irregular weather patterns such as stronger hurricanes and greater instances of flooding. These two extreme weather conditions heavily affect coastal environments due to the fact that they are right at sea level.
...e effect of what humankind does to the ocean, the implications became far worse than any had individually realized. It is a very serious situation demanding unequivocal action at every level. We are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact in our lifetime, and worse, our children's and generations beyond that
Jim Thomson an oceanographer from the University of Washington has made a remarkable correlation between waves in the Arctic Ocean and global warming. According to Thomson the increasing wave size that he documented during a storm is because of the increasing open ocean (University of Washington, 2014.). The open ocean in the Arctic a decade ago was only 100 miles, but in 2012, it was documented at more than 1000 miles (University of Washington, 2014.) With more open ocean, the normal harsh winds, and warmer temperatures it is predicted that wave sizes will increase. Currently, Thomson measured storm waves reaching sixteen feet and it can only be concluded that waves will increase in size (University of Washington, 2014.). The open ocean impacts the wave size because as wind blows across the surface the water will ripple and create white caps, which will steady double in size, and because of more open ocean the waves will keep getting bigger. This is a problem because as shipping companies look for ice-free routes they will face more stormy ocean weather, which is the leading cause of death on the ocean waterways.
This means that the same weather that causes stronger hurricanes will melt Arctic ice faster, adding volume to the oceans. This could make a difference when hurricanes build over the Atlantic Ocean. This means that rising seas will affect many states in the nation, these include Louisiana, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina. According to a 2001 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study, this increase would inundate some 22,400 square miles of land along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States (Natural Resources Defense Council, 2005). One must note that such high levels of seas can dramatically affect the damages caused by a hurricane. This because oceans will push against land as they did in New Orleans, which brings devastating results, approximately 80 percent of the city was flooded (Plyer, 2015). One cannot go without mentioning that these storms cause a lot of rain, the combination of such examples will crush a city in many ways.
Based on the impacts on a coastal location near point Barrow, Alaska which impacts to the ecological, heath, fresh water and societal life. Increasing temperatures in the next 25 years sea thawing permafrost coastal erosion flooding other climate change. Scientist predict that over the next century the temperature increase will be twice as much over the long term norm as it is now. Statewide average annual temperatures could rise from current levels by as 5 to 13 degrees, an average winter temperature could rise by as much as 22 degrees F in certain locations. Climate change is unavoidable, it’s already under way, and the observable effects are likely to increase with time. In the next century, predict changes of 3 to 10 degrees F. small changes in temperature will cause big changes to life on earth. With planning we can minimize the potential harm from coming changes and in some cases even find opportunities. Most planning for future climate change adaption is simply a matter of addressing current effects of weather extremes. The impacts of climate change are diverse, and vulnerabilities differ across regions and sectors.
rising sea levels. The IPCC has forecast increases in both flooding and droughts of varying
Scientists appear to have become aware of the issue of rising sea levels in the mid to late 1980s. An article published in Science News in 1987 predicted that “global warming… will cause… the world's oceans to expand, raising the average sea level by 4 to 8 centimeters in the next 40 years” (Monastersky). Though 4 to 8 centimeters sounds like a miniscule amount in relation to the vastness of the world’s oceans, this early article disturbed many readers. Many for this reason: early stud...
They say that warmer waters will increase the power of tropical storms such as hurricanes and typhoons. Again the statistics given are made by a select group of notoriously bias paid scientists. Meaning the waters won’t get warmer. The waters get warmer every year because of the natural warming and cooling of the earth’s environment. This is the way that the earth works because of the shape and rotation of the earth around the sun. Added on to that is the fact that the storms that have been forming nowadays have been the same size as always just in new locations. This is just one e...
Derek Walcott, acclaimed Caribbean author, writes to make sense of the legacy of deep colonial damage. Born in 1930 in the island of St. Lucia, Walcott has a melancholic relationship with Caribbean history which shapes the way he carefully composes within “The Sea is History.” Walcott’s application of Biblical allusions seeks to revise and restore Caribbean identity.
One of the major effects of global warming is the rise of sea level due to thermal expansion of the ocean, in addition to the melting of land ice. Now there are dozens of land areas that sit well below sea level and the majority of those land areas are very well populated. At least 40 percent of the world 's population lives within 62 miles of the ocean, putting millions of lives and billions of dollars ' worth of property and infrastructure at risk. (Juliet Christian-Smith, 2011) This means if the sea level rises to the projected level of 25 meters (82 feet) half of the world will retreat back to the ocean. (Rohrer, 2007) Also rising sea levels means higher tides and storm surges riding on ever-higher seas which are more dangerous to people and coastal inf...