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09-04-2016, 12:30 AM
Sea level rise is worsening Hermine's coastal flooding
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Post-Tropical Storm Hermine is poised to deliver the Mid-Atlantic states a fierce blow, with days of strong winds, pounding waves and storm surge-related coastal flooding.*
Yet while the path of Hermine and height of its surge gets most of the attention, there's a hidden, human-caused and long-term factor at work here too: Sea level rise is making all coastal flooding events in the Mid-Atlantic region more frequent and worse.
Globally, sea levels are rising at the fastest rate of any time in at least the past 2,800 years, according to a study (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/02/17/1517056113) published in February. This is due to warming ocean waters, which cause the sea to expand, and the melting of polar ice caps. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/03/sea-level-rise-storm-surge-hermine/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Post-Tropical Storm Hermine is poised to deliver the Mid-Atlantic states a fierce blow, with days of strong winds, pounding waves and storm surge-related coastal flooding.*
Yet while the path of Hermine and height of its surge gets most of the attention, there's a hidden, human-caused and long-term factor at work here too: Sea level rise is making all coastal flooding events in the Mid-Atlantic region more frequent and worse.
Globally, sea levels are rising at the fastest rate of any time in at least the past 2,800 years, according to a study (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/02/17/1517056113) published in February. This is due to warming ocean waters, which cause the sea to expand, and the melting of polar ice caps. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/03/sea-level-rise-storm-surge-hermine/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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