Climate Change Offers Occasional Benefits, E.g., New Places To Fish

Sunny day flooding, aka tidal or nuisance flooding, i.e., floods that occur with no new precipitation, are increasingly frequent in low-lying areas.  The phenomenon is caused by sea-level rise (driven by higher ocean temperatures that cause ocean volumes to rise, and by the melting of glaciers in the polar regions), and increasing wind velocities (driven in part by higher atmospheric temperatures), and normally take place during exceptionally high tide events, such as full and new moons.

As shown here, however, climate change sometimes has a lighter side.

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