Sentence examples for raised sea levels from inspiring English sources

Global warming has raised sea levels so suddenly that most of the world's population has been wiped out.

But the bridge was ephemeral; around the time the mastodon's bones were smashed, it would have been underwater, as a warm climate melted glaciers and raised sea levels.

Changing global trade winds have raised sea levels in the South Pacific about a foot over the past 30 years, faster than elsewhere.

Studies of past climate shifts, particularly warm-ups at the ends of ice ages, show that fast-melting ice sheets have sometimes raised sea levels worldwide in bursts of up to several yards in a century.

It is expected to say that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities have already warmed the ocean, melted snow and ice, raised sea levels and increased climatic extremes.

(Indeed, new data released this month shows that, if we hit the two-degree mark, we'll be living with drastically raised sea levels for, oh, twice as long as human civilization has existed to date).

Melting land ice does raise sea levels.

It is also raising sea levels.

As ice that's grounded on land melts (ice sheets), that raises sea levels.

Over the longer term, melt from Antarctica could raise sea levels by fifty feet.

"If Greenland melted," he said, "it'd raise sea levels by 20 feet.