WaPo: “It has also shown a dangerous trend: Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest ratesin the country, according to a Washington Post analysis of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data for 127 tide gauges.
Similar spikes are affecting the entire U.S. Southeast — showing a glimpse of our climate future….
And the deluge stretches all across the South and the Gulf Coast; over the past 14 years, sea levels in the U.S. South have risen twice as fast as the global average.
“It’s really the hot spot,” said Ben Hamlington, a research scientistwho leads NASA’s sea level change team.
The speed has worried scientists. “What we’ve seen over the past decade, decade and a half in the Gulf of Mexico is faster than most climate projections,” said Chris Piecuch, an assistant scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. “And that’s what’s causing this big concern.””