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Moon wobble: NASA predicts surge in coastal flooding in 2030s
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LOS ANGELES - A wobble in the moon’s orbit in the mid-2030s will cause high tide floods amid rising sea levels, according to a study from NASA published on July 7.
NASA warned that cities along the U.S. coast could experience floods weekly. When the Moon and Earth line up in specific ways with each other and the Sun, the resulting gravitational pull and the ocean’s corresponding response may leave city dwellers coping with floods every day or two, NASA researchers wrote.
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Moon wobble could bring surge in coastal flooding in 2030s, NASA study predicts Share Updated: 9:40 PM EDT Jul 14, 2021 By Rachel Trent, CNN Share Updated: 9:40 PM EDT Jul 14, 2021
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The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 9:40 PM EDT Jul 14, 2021 By Rachel Trent, CNN Related video above: Earth may have to thank the Moon for saving it billions of years agoCoastal communities in the United States, be forewarned. A dramatic surge in high-tide floods is just over a decade away in the U.S., according to NASA.The rapid increase will start in the mid-2030s, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by the climate crisis, found a new study led by the members of the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team from the University of Hawaii. Only far northern coastlines, such as Alaska s, will get at least another decade s respite because long-term geological
Thanks to a wobble in the moon s orbit and rising sea levels, every coast in the United States will face rapidly increasing high tides that will start a decade of dramatic increases in flood numbers in the 2030s.
The conclusion, which was published in the Nature Climate Change journal by NASA Sea Level Change Science Team from the University of Hawaii, has to do with the moon s orbit, which takes 18.6 years to complete, according to NASA.
For half of that time period, Earth s regular daily tides are suppressed with high tides at a low average and low tides happening at a higher rate. In the other half of the cycle, the opposite occurs.