Posted on 06/14/2021 11:41:08 AM PDT by Jayster
Sea level rise isn’t the only way climate change will devastate the coast. Our research, published on May 20, found it is also making waves more powerful, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
We plotted the trajectory of these stronger waves and found the coasts of South Australia and Western Australia, Pacific and Caribbean Islands, East Indonesia and Japan, and South Africa are already experiencing more powerful waves because of global warming.
This will compound the effects of sea level rise, putting low-lying island nations in the Pacific — such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands — in further danger, and changing how we manage coasts worldwide.
But it’s not too late to stop the worst effects — that is, if we drastically and urgently cut greenhouse gas emissions.
An Energetic Ocean Since the 1970s, the ocean has absorbed more than 90 percent of the heat gained by the planet. This has a range of impacts, including longer and more frequent marine heatwaves, coral bleaching, and providing an energy source for more powerful storms.
But our focus was on how warming oceans boost wave power. We looked at wave conditions over the past 35 years, and found global wave power has increased since at least the 1980s, mostly concentrated in the Southern Hemisphere, as more energy is being pumped into the oceans in the form of heat.
And a more energetic ocean means larger wave heights and more erosive energy potential for coastlines in some parts of the world than before.
(Excerpt) Read more at theinertia.com ...
The ConversationThis article was written by multiple authors: Thomas Mortlock, Senior Risk Scientist, Risk Frontiers, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University; Itxaso Odériz, Research assistant, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Nobuhito Mori, Professor, Kyoto University, and Rodolfo Silva, Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Righteous bro, surf’s up
Somebody tell Obozo so he can flee his Marthas Vineyard estate in the nick of time!
Unfortunately for these lying freaks the frequency of storms has decreased. They never let facts get in the way of an agenda.
Uh huh. I’ll put it on my list of things to be worried about. Position 19,382.
Florida’s already under water.
So there’s that.
< / AlGore >
Fill in the blanks for a brand new headline that will cause panic and get us more money.
1. Climate change is causing ________ to do _________! ! !
2. Due to climate change the _______ are not going to _______! ! !
“And Leon is getting larger”
This is just stupid.
I find it interesting that the article does not give any measure of the extent of the "power" change. They talk about wave height and length, but these factors are more determined by topography than temperature. This is one of those "believe-me-because-I-said-so" articles.
Since the planet’s ecosystem tends to equalize things, there’s always crazy weather going on somewhere.
It must be nice to have a target-rich “environment”.
Oh and that dress jeeeeese
2. Due to climate change the __liberals’ bank accounts_____ are going to _increase in value______! ! !
The LAST thing we need is a weak ocean.
Climate change has also made Biden stupider.
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