Signal: Hurricane storm surge higher on sea level rise
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Irene’s Storm Surge Will Ride Higher Due to 1 Foot of Sea level Rise

by on 26. Aug, 2011 in Uncategorized

…thanks largely to climate change, sea level is about 13 inches higher in the New York area than it was a century ago. The greatest damage from hurricanes comes not from high winds and torrential rains — although those do cause a lot of damage. It’s from the storm surge, the tsunami-like wall of water [...]