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As Long As The Music Is Playing …

August 30, 2011 by Gernot Wagner
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Betting against the herd turned out to be the smarter strategy in 2008, at the height of the financial crisis. But being right about the housing bubble was not enough. The first economists called the bubble in 2002. Putting your money on that bet in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, or 2007 would have cost you. Timing was everything. Some... [read more]

What the insurance industry thinks about climate change and sea level rise, and it’s not pretty

November 28, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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WWF International and insurance giant Allianz have released a report called “Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector.” I find reports from the insurance industry quite informative because nobody knows risk better than the people who stand to lose a lot of money from those very risks.... [read more]

High Water: Greenland ice sheet melting faster than expected and could raise East Coast sea levels an extra 20 inches by 2100 — to more than 6 feet

June 14, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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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. Sadly, the Washington Post got the only story half right. This week I’ll focus on our best understanding of the impacts that Americans face from human-caused climate change.  On... [read more]

The Sea Level Rise Mystery

April 25, 2009 by Big Gav
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Jamais at Open The Future has a post on the length of time it can take for melting glciers (and icecaps) to affect global sea levels (which is surprisingly long) - The Sea Level Rise Mystery.Twenty inches per decade -- that's the estimate of how rapidly the oceans rose in the last interglacial period about 121,000 years ago, in research... [read more]

An exciting new Earth Day working paper

April 22, 2009 by John Whitehead
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Measuring the Economic Effects of Sea Level Rise on Beach RecreationJohn C. Whitehead, Ben Poulter, Christopher F. Dumas and Okmyung BinNo 09-11, Working Papers from Department of Economics, Appalachian State UniversityAbstract: We develop estimates of the economic effects of climate change-induced sea level rise on recreation at... [read more]

27,000 hectares of the coastal area of Tokyo Bay to be flooded: Typhoon with sea level rise may bring unprecedented flood disaster

April 6, 2009 by Climatico Analysis
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On April 2 2009, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) reported the results of examination of the storm surge flooding and the current defence capacity in the Tokyo Bay coastal area against flood tide at an expert panel on large-scale flood control measures of the central disaster management council. In its... [read more]

Ponderables for March 16, 2009

March 16, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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Northeast US to suffer most from future sea rise: The northeastern U.S. coast is likely to see the world’s biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts. However much the oceans rise by the end of the century, add an extra 8 inches or so for New York, Boston and other spots along the coast from the mid-... [read more]

Greenland Study: Sea level rise could be double IPCC projections

February 12, 2008 by Joseph Romm
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Last year, Nature Geoscience and Science published major articles suggesting that the consensus projection for sea level rise this century was far too low — and could be as high as five feet. Now the Journal of Glaciology joins in with a remarkable analysis, “Intermittent thinning of Jakobshavn Isbræ, West Greenland, since the Little... [read more]

Chapter Four Excerpt: The Hell and High Water Scenario

January 12, 2008 by Joseph Romm
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From Hell and High Water (paperback now at Amazon): We could get a meter [of sea-level rise] easy in 50 years. – Bob Corell, chair, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, 2006 The peak rate of deglaciation following the last Ice Age was . . . about one meter [39 inches] of sea- level rise every 20 years, which was maintained for several... [read more]