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Most U.S. flooding linked to climate change

U.S. coastal cities are flooding more often, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

By Eric Roston, Bloomberg | Updated on February 22, 2016
A car drives through a flooded street in Charleston, S.C., Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015. A flash flood warning was in effect in parts of South Carolina, where authorities shut down the Charleston peninsula to motorists. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

(Bloomberg) — U.S. coastal cities are flooding more often, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. That’s because two- thirds of floods since 1950, measured at 27 tidal gauges around the country, might not have spilled over without a push from manmade climate change, according to a new report by the research-and-news nonprofit Climate Central.

The study is based in part on a new scientific article, published simultaneously in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which shows that the current pace of global sea-level rise is faster than it’s been in at least 3,000 years.

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