COUNTING THE COSTS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND COASTAL FLOODING

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COUNTING THE COSTS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND COASTAL FLOODING

12 Sep 2014

they are the rise observed during the past vertical motion (rise or fall) half-century was the warming of of the sea surface itself and the atmosphere and oceans due to the vertical motion (rise or an increase in the concentration subsidence) of the land surface of greenhouse gases in the adjacent to the sea. [...] of the sea surface relative to the effect of changes in sea the centre of the earth (called level that we experience at the a geocentric measurement). [...] a major advance in the iPCC ar5 was Best estimates (central values) of sea- the development of regional projections level projections for australia from the of relative sea level, including the effects iPCC ar5, over the period 2010–2100, of thermal expansion of the oceans, for the weak mitigation and the Bau addition of water to the oceans through pathways, are shown in Figures 8a and the flow of. [...] these projections are therefore the records provide the basis for the most appropriate ones for determining estimation of the increased probability the effect of sea-level rise on the coast. [...] the recent literature on the economics of climate change suggests a rate of zero or near-zero, on the basis that there is no valid ethical argument to place less emphasis on the future than the present purely because of the impatience or desires of the present generation.
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