Higher Storm Waves: Sign Of Climate Change?

Contractors race to buttress beachfront homes in Neskowin, Oregon before the next storm. (Photo by Tom Banse)

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008

West Coast, USA

Pounding storms are eroding and flooding beachfront property. Weather buoy records going back more than two decades show winter storm wave heights steadily rising on the Northwest Coast. Correspondent Tom Banse visited coastal residents who want to know why this is happening.

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