Article: Concern grows over sea levels.(News)

Article: Sea levels may rise by 9 inches this century, ...
The Independent - London;  July 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... three inches (7.6cm) to sea levels this century. But the latest ... and 9.5 inches to global sea levels. This does not include the rise in sea levels caused by the thermal expansion of water, which could potentially ...

Article: Sea levels may 'rise by nine inches'
Belfast Telegraph;  July 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... three inches (7.6cm) to sea levels this century. But the latest ... and 9.5 inches to global sea levels. This does not include the rise in sea levels caused by the thermal expansion of water, which could potentially ...

Article: Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted
The Independent - London;  March 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Antarctica are likely to push up sea levels by a metre or more by 2100 ... that a one-metre rise in sea levels would swamp 17 per cent of ... into the process. Rising sea levels are caused by the thermal expansion of the ocean where water ...

Article: Sea levels predicted to rise twice as fast as ...
Belfast Telegraph;  March 12, 2009 ;     665 words ... ... Antarctica are likely to push up sea levels by a metre or more by 2100 ... that a one-metre rise in sea levels would swamp 17% of the country ... three weeks in Bonn. Rising sea levels are caused by the thermal expansion of the ocean -- where water ...

Article: Rising sea levels
The Nelson Mail;  December 7, 2009 ;     593 words ... ... Sir, The last major ice age started to decline 20,000 years ago, and since then sea levels have risen by 120m due mainly to ice melt and thermal expansion of the oceans. This equates to a rise of 600mm per century. In David Wratt's lecture ...

Article: Rising sea levels will threaten New York.(TOMORROW ...
The Futurist;  July 1, 2009 ;     674 words ... ... feet above water, so the rising sea levels predicted by climate modelers ... State University. By 2100, thermal expansion and a slowing of the North Atlantic ... Ocan circulation could increase sea levels in this region by as much as ...

Article: How to keep New York afloat; With sea levels ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  November 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... stronger storms and rising sea levels may make the flood that previously ... protect all of Manhattan Island. Sea levels have risen almost a foot in the ... partly because of ice melt and thermal expansion (warmer water has more volume ...