Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Climate change played a role in dozens of floods, heatwaves, and droughts last year

In late September of 2015, residents of Miami woke up to find their streets inundated with several feet of water. But the flooding wasn’t brought by intense rainfall or a tropical storm — it was the result of historically high tides combined with rapidly rising sea levels. In other words, the flooding was due — at least in part — to climate change....
https://thinkprogress.org/extreme-weather-2015-climate-change-c105d5a04015#.nk5sbf78p

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