Coastal flooding
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Coastal flooding occurs when dry and low-lying land is submerged by seawater. The range of a coastal flooding is a result of the elevation of floodwater that penetrates the inland which is controlled
Coastal flooding during Hurricane Lili in 2002 on Louisiana Highway 1 (United States)
Storm surge from Hurricane Carol in 1954
Tidal flooding on a sunny day, during the "king tides" in Brickell, Miami in 2016
The last remaining house on Holland Island that collapsed and was torn down in the 2010s as erosion and tides reached the foundation.
Effects of climate change
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Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall warming trend, changes to precipitation
New Orleans submerged after Hurricane Katrina, September 2005
A dry lakebed in California In 2022, the state was experiencing its most serious drought in 1,200 years, worsened by climate change.
Climate change causes a drop in the ocean's pH value (called ocean acidification): Time series of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa (in parts per million volume, ppmv; red), surface ocean pCO2 (μatm; green) and surface ocean pH (blue) at Ocean Station ALOHA in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean.
Part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 2016 after a coral bleaching event (partly caused by rising ocean temperatures and marine heatwaves).