So even if humanity isn't driven to Arctic shores by climate calamity at lower latitudes, it's a sure bet that the far north will be an ever busier place.
The vessel has 113 cabins, 100 with outside views, and all with radio, TV and VCR's, ship-to-shore telephones, individual climate control and Federal-style décor.
Norfolk's maritime history dates from Colonial times, when explorers and merchants were enticed to its shores by its gentle climate and natural deep-water harbor.
In 2008, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and University of Miami published "Global warming and United States landfalling hurricanes," a long-view analysis of patterns in hurricanes striking United States shores in relation to climate conditions.
Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal's shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia's future.
While we can't prevent earthquakes, we can minimize at least some of the damage from tsunamis on American shores by dealing with climate change and rising ocean levels now.
The next logical step is to connect the ecological model presented here (predicting litter size as a function of on-shore arrival date) with climate and sea ice models (predicting future break-up, and thus11 polar bear on-shore arrival dates) to obtain predictions for the timeframe within which litter size declines are to be expected.
The climate on shore is maritime, with mild winters and cool summers.
This broad peak corresponds favourably to the sea-state probabilities in an assumed near-shore shallow water wave climate on the coast of Portugal, yielding a predicted mean annual electrical power production of 240 kW in such conditions.
But fishing communities like this are under threat along the lake shore as overfishing and climate change takes its toll.
