{"id":11601,"date":"2017-06-29T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2017-06-29T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:24:12","slug":"sea-level-rise-isnt-just-happening-its-getting-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/sea-level-rise-isnt-just-happening-its-getting-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sea level rise isn\u2019t just happening, it\u2019s getting faster”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent studies on the rate at which sea level is rising due to warmer ocean water and melting ice sheets show that not only is sea level rising in most areas, but the rate at which it is rising is increasing.\u00a0 This has important implications for coastal communities, which often do planning based on the assumption that the rate of rise will be constant over time.\u00a0 What it means is that low-lying areas may become inundated sooner than currently expected.\u00a0 Here are a couple of articles which discuss these changes.<\/p>\n

Washington Post:<\/em> Sea level rise isn’t just happening, it’s getting faster<\/a><\/p>\n

Business Insider<\/em>: The rate of sea level rise increased 50% in the last two decades, new study finds<\/a><\/p>\n

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Miami Beach skyline. Source: Ethically Yours, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Recent studies on the rate at which sea level is rising due to warmer ocean water and melting ice sheets show that not only is sea level rising in most areas, but the rate at which it is rising is increasing.\u00a0 This has important implications for coastal communities, which often do planning based on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11602,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions\/11602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}