USA TODAY
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As Americans flock to the beach this summer, they’re often greeted with disconcerting news: Their destination might besmelly with dead fishorrotting seaweed— anddanger often lurks from rip currentsoreven shark attacks.
In a warming world, those problems are set to get worse, experts say.
“The climate is changing and it’s changing drastically,” said Todd Crowl, director of the Institute of Environment at Florida International University in Miami. “It is measurable and happening.”
No single ruined beach day should be directly attributed to a warming globe. But the rise in both atmospheric and ocean temperatures is rapidly altering the stretches of coastline where land and water meet.
The most obvious impact isrising sea levelsthat over years willerode beaches, threaten coastal homesand swamp stretches of coastline. But some climate change effects are less obvious and…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I take exception to this description: “Thousands of dead fish recently washed ashore in Texas, creating a smelly, disgusting mess some on beaches.” (I take exception to the language, rather than the switching of the words “some” and “on.”) The last time I read a description of a mass of human bodies, such as on a battlefield, or after an epidemic, I don’t recall it being described as a “smelly, disgusting mess,” although it obviously is one. This mass death of fish is an enormous tragedy. For the individuals, and as a harbinger of more horrifying things to come.
Good point!