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Kevin J. Noone, in Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate, 2013. Impacts of Sea-Level Rise. Sea-level rise will impact all coastal areas, but to differing extents. It is an existential issue for some small island states, since some islands will disappear entirely with even modest increases in sea level.
Global warming has raised global sea level about 8 inches since 1880, and the rate of rise is accelerating. Rising seas dramatically increase the odds of damaging floods from storm surges.
Causes of Sea Level Rise 3 Measuring Global Sea Level Rise Global sea level rose roughly eight inches from 1880 to 2009, and about 0.8 inch per decade from 1972 to 2008 (Figure 1) (Church and White 2011; Church et al. 2011).5 Tide gauges, land benchmarks, and other methods can be consulted in.
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The modern prevalence of beach erosion on the world’s coastlines is not, therefore, an indication of global sea-level rise. However, if such a sea-level rise develops, perhaps as a consequence of the greenhouse effect, there will be an acceleration of existing beach erosion, and erosion will begin on many beaches that are now stable or growing.
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Ice melting from land into the ocean, thermal expansion, a slowing Gulf Stream, and sinking land all contribute to sea level rise.