Scientists warn that these higher seas from climate change will mean more coastal floods on sunny days when it isn't storming.
America's coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities regularly hit with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns.
The projected increase is especially alarming given that in the 20th century, seas along the Atlantic coast rose at the fastest clip in 2,000 years. "We can see this freight train coming from more than a mile away," Dutton said in an email."The question is whether we continue to let houses slide into the ocean."
While higher seas cause much more damage when storms such as hurricanes hit the coast, they are becoming a problem even on sunny days. The report said that the western Gulf of Mexico coast should get hit the most with the highest sea level rise 16 to 18 inches by 2050. And that means more than 10 moderate property-damaging sunny-day floods and one"major" high tide flood event a year.
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