Surf's up! Wave heights increase on California's coast as climate warms
A new study finds that winter wave heights have increased along California's coastline as human actions have warmed the world's climate. Bigger waves are a threat to the already vulnerable coast.
Earlier this year, California was pummeled by what local surfers described as the best swell in decades: massive waves that damaged piers, crumbled sea cliffs and flooded coastlines. A new study finds that wave heights are getting bigger along the California coast as global temperatures have warmed.
The study, published Tuesday in the looked at nearly a century's worth of data and found that the average height of winter waves has grown by
