McMoran has been developing expertise in drilling at extreme depths below sea level in the shallow waters of the gulf.

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The giant wave coincided with extreme weather and rising sea levels and was part of a process that submerged land beneath the North Sea.

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Are you terrified by the melting polar ice cap, rising sea levels, extreme weather, and other growing threats from global warming?

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"We need to recognize the reality of rising sea levels and extreme weather events, " Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said at a news conference in front of an aging electrical substation that was flooded by Sandy last October.

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The government has established a national adaptation strategy and major infrastructure providers are having to set out their plans for keeping the country running in a future projected to be several Celsius hotter, with more extreme weather events and higher sea levels around the coast.

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Scientists at Lews Castle College UHI have been measuring what they described as "extreme" wave heights in the sea off west Lewis.

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The headland grew more sheer and extreme, but we climbed with the relative protection of the sea.

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We must understand and adapt to a changing climate, including more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, drought and floods, and continued sea level rise.

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Extreme European summers would cause hundreds of thousands of deaths due to heat stress while rising sea levels would devastate vulnerable coastal areas and cities including New York, London, Shanghai and Bombay.

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