Global sea levels are rising as a result of human-caused global warming. Glaciers and ice sheets worldwide are melting which is adding water to the oceans and as water warms with the atmosphere the volume of water in the oceans expands. These two factors impact the level of water in the world’s oceans which directly impacts cities and other communities located on the shorelines.
In addition, global warming caused by increased greenhouse gasses is resulting in more extreme weather events including heat waves, severe rainstorms, flooding, droughts, wildfires, and more frequent hurricanes.
Our human actions as a result of industrialization and burning fossil fuel have caused the carbon dioxide and methane gasses to increase which traps in the heat. It melts ice caps and affects the water cycle and shifts patterns of weather.
Kyle Ruggieri
The number of days of Climate change related coastal flooding ( Orange) has increased dramatically over time in Falmouth.
