1.   In spite of our hopes the weather appeared to be deteriorating with a freshening wind and rising sea.

2.   Telegraph poles push up into the living quarters protecting folk from the fickle rising seas.

3.   Further evidence of coral reef bleaching, believed by some to be linked to rising sea temperatures caused by global warming has emerged from Thailand.

4.   And a few countries, such as poverty-stricken Bangladesh, could be inundated by rising seas if ice caps start to melt.

5.   A big uncertainty in all this is the possible impact of rising seas.

6.   But it would be trivial compared with the melting or collapse of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet, the Godzilla of the game of rising seas.

7.   But it would be trivial compared with the melting or collapse of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet, the Godzilla of rising seas.

8.   If rising seas obliterate the coasts, our marine geologists will sculpt new ones and Hollywood will get bright new ideas for disaster movies.

9.   Rising seas will steal coastline, while increased heat waves or greater storm damage stand to wreak tremendous impact on entire communities.

10.   Shishmaref, on a barrier island near the Bering Strait, is fast losing the battle to rising seas and crumbling ground.