What's more, insurers won't touch a boat that's tethered to a mooring, worried that a typhoon could blow it out to sea or damage it.
Last weekend a combination of heavy seas, tidal forces and winds caused flooding and damage on the North Sea coast from Shetland to East Lothian.
"Every few extra inches of sea level have very significant economic impacts, because they change the sea level, increase flooding and storm damage, " said, Zwally, ICESat Project Scientist.
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Onagawa's plant was high enough above sea level to survive the tsunami without enormous damage.
The flood victims died on 31 January when sea water breached the coastal defences causing widespread damage along England's east coast.
Waves presented as bright colours on the charts caused actual damage on Fair Isle, with the sea smashing a wall at the 120-year-old South Lighthouse and washing the debris several hundred metres inland.
Such damage could occur under a scenario in which sea levels rise 6 feet or a 3-foot rise in tandem with a powerful coastal storm, according to the map produced by Rutgers University researchers.
People don't easily understand how a small sea level rise can result in bigger storm surges and coastal damage, or how slight changes in ocean temperatures can change global rainfall patterns, leading to droughts and floods with catastrophic economic and societal consequences.
They also want the UN to monitor and assess losses, and to find new approaches for addressing loss and damage, particularly for slow-onset events like, say, sea level rise.
Now the scientists have the evidence to show just how devastating deep sea trawlers are to marine life, they hope to be able to prosecute companies that damage the reefs.
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Well, hurricane strikes are actually a really poor measure of hurricane activity, since whether major hurricanes hit land or stay out at sea or hit some other country is pretty random (the only metric that is worse is hurricane damage numbers, which are biased over time and geography with large variations in coastal development value).
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