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California winter waves may be boosted by climate change, imperiling fragile coast
Winter waves along California’s shoreline may be growing in height due to the impacts of climate change — posing a potential threat to an already vulnerable coastal ecosystem, a new study has found. Probing nearly a century worth of seismic data, a University of California oceanographer has determined that from 1970 and on, California’s winter waves have grown by an average of 13 percent — or one foot — in comparison to those of the 1931-1969 period. Further such growth, driven by a warming climate, could amplify the impacts of sea-level rise and wreak havoc on the coastline, according to the study, published on Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. “After 1970

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