Climate change in Delaware

<p>Climate change in Delaware encompasses the effects of <a href="/facts/Climate_change/rEN4BDE7">climate change</a>, attributed to man-made increases in atmospheric <a href="/facts/Carbon_dioxide/xGzpppEp">carbon dioxide</a>, in the U.S. state of <a href="/facts/Delaware/4n4I3Rhu">Delaware</a>.
</p><p>According to the <a href="/facts/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency/ghI985SI">United States Environmental Protection Agency</a> (EPA), "Delaware's climate is changing. The state has warmed two degrees (F) in the last century, heavy rainstorms are more frequent, and the sea is rising about one inch every seven years. Higher water levels are eroding beaches, submerging low lands, exacerbating <a href="/facts/Coastal_flooding/ByoDMDyP">coastal flooding</a>, and increasing the salinity of estuaries and aquifers. In the coming decades, changing the climate is likely to increase coastal flooding; harm marine, wetland, and inland ecosystems; disrupt farming; and increase some risks to human health".
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Climate change in Delaware