Smaller storms over time can cost more than extreme, infrequent events (AGU - American Geophysical Union)
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(Source: AGU - American Geophysical Union) The effects of climate change are being felt now in American cities. With the steady rise in sea level over the past few decades, events such as an especially strong tide can result in flooding in coastal regions, a new study finds. Credit: FEMA. WASHINGTON, DC - Global climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States, not always in the form of big weather disasters but as a drip, drip, drip of nuisance flooding. According to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, rising sea levels will cause these smaller events to become increasingly frequent in the future, and the cumulative effect will become comparable...