sea level rise
Astonishing interactive map lays bare where MILLIONS of homes will be submerged by water within a few years... are YOU at risk?
Doctor's husband'was watching X-rated videos in his house while daughter, 2, died in roasting car outside' Florida's housing market is flashing a warning for the rest of the US Now scientists redefine'obese' - and they've made up to 60% more people'fat' Bella Hadid's health battle takes dark turn: Loved ones reveal hellish new details about'missing' model... as ominous texts emerge America's saddest lost soul can no longer SPEAK and spends days hitting herself'after years of unspeakable abuse by gangs of men' Shocking moment brazen gunman opens fire at Michigan businessman's Land Rover in daylight attack'You will DIE if you do not remove your breasts', doctors screamed at me. I refused and tried a new experimental therapy instead... now I'm cancer-free The world's most powerful passport revealed - as UK and USA both drop to record lows Police say they have FOUND woman seen in viral'kidnapping' video and reveal what happened to her after harrowing footage emerged Will Trump's Gaza peace deal fail? Policy expert MARK DUBOWITZ breaks down all the forces at play... and how the president can actually pull this off America's most renowned'prophet' makes startling prediction about alien'mothership' Kim Kardashian says she wasn't'emotionally or financially safe' during'toxic' marriage to Kanye West as she claims rapper hasn't contacted their children for MONTHS and has destroyed her dating life Astonishing interactive map lays bare where MILLIONS of homes will be submerged by water within a few years... are YOU at risk? Outrageous reason LA County CEO was awarded $2m payout for'hurt feelings' that'll see her take months off taxpayer-funded $570,000-a-year job Ugly divorce war between Mitt Romney's wealthy brother and estranged wife before she was found dead Full horrors of torture suffered by Noa Argamani's commando boyfriend are revealed - including how 6ft 5in hostage was beaten and kept chained in 6ft cell for a year after he tried to escape from Hamas Mother, 52, and daughter, 21, die after eating'poisoned birthday cake delivered by relative who owed them money' in Brazil Astonishing interactive map lays bare where MILLIONS of homes will be submerged by water within a few years... are YOU at risk? Millions of buildings and even more Americans could be at risk of sinking underwater by the end of the century. Researchers from McGill University in Canada warned rising sea levels, resulting from continued greenhouse gas emissions, threaten to wipe out coastal cities worldwide. Sea level rise measures the ocean's surface height over time.
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Sea level rise could plunge 100 MILLION buildings underwater, warn scientists - so, is your home at risk?
AOC hit by shockingly crude sex insult by White House after she mocked'TINY' Stephen Miller Biden ordered CIA cover-up of his'corrupt' business ties to Ukraine, astonishing secret files show NYC girls aged 12 and 13 meet tragic end after going subway surfing across Williamsburg Bridge at 3.10am ERIC TRUMP: The darkest day in my dad's marriage to Melania... before the ugly truth was exposed More girls are starting their periods younger than ever before - scientists think they've finally found what's causing it Taylor Swift reveals truth behind raunchy song about Travis Kelce's manhood Meghan is accused of'giggling as model stumbles on the catwalk': More Paris Fashion Week disasters emerge, including awkward moment with Kristin Scott Thomas The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox Revealed: Which slimming jab REALLY works best. The doctors' ultimate expert guide on which to pick, how to save money, beat every side effect... and what you need to know about the'golden dose' I haven't heard that name in so long' Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior And a humiliating lifeline: Backroom secrets of Taylor Swift and Blake Lively... after hit new song Bottled water contains dangerous levels of microplastics that lodge in vital organs and raise cancer risk', scientists warn Sea level rise could plunge 100 MILLION buildings underwater, warn scientists - so, is your home at risk? Rising sea levels could plunge more than 100 million buildings underwater by 2100, scientists have warned. The experts in Canada estimated how many buildings in Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South America would be flooded by different sea level changes. Their assessment found that sea level rises of just 1.6 feet (0.5 metres) would flood three million buildings in the global south alone.
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ClimateChat: Designing Data and Methods for Instruction Tuning LLMs to Answer Climate Change Queries
Chen, Zhou, Wang, Xiao, Liao, Yuanhong, Lin, Ming, Bai, Yuqi
As the issue of global climate change becomes increasingly severe, the demand for research in climate science continues to grow. Natural language processing technologies, represented by Large Language Models (LLMs), have been widely applied to climate change-specific research, providing essential information support for decision-makers and the public. Some studies have improved model performance on relevant tasks by constructing climate change-related instruction data and instruction-tuning LLMs. However, current research remains inadequate in efficiently producing large volumes of high-precision instruction data for climate change, which limits further development of climate change LLMs. This study introduces an automated method for constructing instruction data. The method generates instructions using facts and background knowledge from documents and enhances the diversity of the instruction data through web scraping and the collection of seed instructions. Using this method, we constructed a climate change instruction dataset, named ClimateChat-Corpus, which was used to fine-tune open-source LLMs, resulting in an LLM named ClimateChat. Evaluation results show that ClimateChat significantly improves performance on climate change question-and-answer tasks. Additionally, we evaluated the impact of different base models and instruction data on LLM performance and demonstrated its capability to adapt to a wide range of climate change scientific discovery tasks, emphasizing the importance of selecting an appropriate base model for instruction tuning. This research provides valuable references and empirical support for constructing climate change instruction data and training climate change-specific LLMs.
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Revealed: What life on Earth will look like in 2100 - with entire cities plunged underwater and millions of people perishing in the heat
From Snowpiercer to The Day After Tomorrow, countless movies and series have put forward their vision of how climate change might reshape the world. Worryingly, scientists predict that the reality might be far more shocking than anything imagined by a Hollywood studio. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) reveals what this might look like. With Google's ImageFX AI image generator, MailOnline has used the latest scientific research to predict how the world will be in 2100. As greenhouse gas levels continue to increase, scientists predict that entire cities will be plunged under water.
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Shocking images reveal the cities that 'will be flooded by global warming by 2100 as sea levels rise by up to 6.2 FEET'- so, can you tell where they are?
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, scientists reveal many of the world's cities will be plunged underwater in just 75 years. In 2100, global sea levels will rise by a staggering 6.2ft (1.9 metres) if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to increase, say experts in Singapore. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly what this might look like. MailOnline turned to Google's AI image generator ImageFX to depict nine of the global cities that are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels. For each city, we gave the command; 'Show me what it would look like in the year 2100 where sea levels have risen 6.2 feet.'
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Concept-1K: A Novel Benchmark for Instance Incremental Learning
Zheng, Junhao, Qiu, Shengjie, Ma, Qianli
Incremental learning (IL) is essential to realize the human-level intelligence in the neural network. However, existing IL scenarios and datasets are unqualified for assessing forgetting in PLMs, giving an illusion that PLMs do not suffer from catastrophic forgetting. To this end, we propose a challenging IL scenario called instance-incremental learning (IIL) and a novel dataset called Concept-1K, which supports an order of magnitude larger IL steps. Based on the experiments on Concept-1K, we reveal that billion-parameter PLMs still suffer from catastrophic forgetting, and the forgetting is affected by both model scale, pretraining, and buffer size. Furthermore, existing IL methods and a popular finetuning technique, LoRA, fail to achieve satisfactory performance. Our study provides a novel scenario for future studies to explore the catastrophic forgetting of PLMs and encourage more powerful techniques to be designed for alleviating the forgetting in PLMs. The data, code and scripts are publicly available at https://github.com/zzz47zzz/pretrained-lm-for-incremental-learning.
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California is working on solutions to worsening climate change. Will they be enough?
In the opening chapter of "The Ministry for the Future," science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson details a calamitous heat wave that kills almost all the residents of a small town. In another chapter, he imagines a catastrophic flood that wipes out Los Angeles. The late Octavia Butler described a Southern California reeling from years of drought in "Parable of the Sower," and Paolo Bacigalupi writes about a near-future Southwest that's also been devastated by drought. Sci-fi writers have long conceived worlds in which extreme weather events upend the lives of its inhabitants, but with every passing, warming year, their scenarios feel more prophetic. Last September, record-shattering temperatures nearly broke the state's power grid, and according to a Times investigation, extreme heat waves are killing more Californians than official records show.
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Antarctica Doomsday Glacier: 'We should all be very concerned'
Scientists studying Antarctica's vast Thwaites Glacier – nicknamed the "Doomsday Glacier" – say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, threatening its demise and a massive sea rise. Thwaites, which is roughly the size of Florida, represents more than half a metre (1.6 feet) of global sea level rise potential, and could destabilise neighbouring glaciers that could cause a further 3-metre (9.8-foot) rise. As part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration – the biggest field campaign ever attempted in Antarctica – a team of 13 scientists from the United States and United Kingdom spent about six weeks on the glacier in late 2019 and early 2020. Using an underwater robot vehicle known as Icefin, mooring data and sensors, they monitored the glacier's grounding line, where ice slides off the glacier and meets the ocean for the first time. In one of two papers published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, led by Cornell University-based scientist Britney Schmidt, researchers found warmer water was making its way into crevasses and other openings known as terraces, causing sideways melt of 30 metres (98 feet) or more per year.
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How Explosives, a Robot, and a Sled Expose a "Doomsday" Glacier
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two Decembers ago, Erin Pettit layered up, slapped on goggles, cued up an audio book, and went on a hike--across Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Behind her, she dragged a sled loaded with a ground-penetrating radar, which fired pulses through a thousand feet of ice and analyzed the radio waves that bounced off the seawater below, thus building a detailed image of the glacier beneath her feet. Pettit--a glaciologist and climate scientist at Oregon State University--hiked alone through the snow, sometimes eschewing headphones for the absolute auditory stillness of the most remote landscape on Earth. "It was actually kind of an amazing, meditative field season," she says, "I just bundled up, I went out there and pulled my sled, and just walked for miles and miles."
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How Explosives, a Robot, and a Sled Expose a Doomsday Glacier
Two Decembers ago, Erin Pettit layered up, slapped on goggles, cued up an audio book, and went on a hike--across Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Behind her, she dragged a sled loaded with a ground-penetrating radar, which fired pulses through a thousand feet of ice and analyzed the radio waves that bounced off the seawater below, thus building a detailed image of the glacier beneath her feet. Pettit--a glaciologist and climate scientist at Oregon State University--hiked alone through the snow, sometimes eschewing headphones for the absolute auditory stillness of the most remote landscape on Earth. "It was actually kind of an amazing, meditative field season," she says, "I just bundled up, I went out there and pulled my sled, and just walked for miles and miles." In case you were worried, her colleagues always knew where Pettit was; every so often someone would roll out on a snow machine to bring her supplies or to swap out the radar's battery.
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