<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uons-ufi081417.php" class="" style="font-family: Verdana-Italic; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;"><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;">Public Release: 14-Aug-2017</div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 17px;">Urban floods intensifying, countryside drying up</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px;">UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Drier soils and reduced water flow in rural areas -- but more intense rainfall that overwhelms infrastructure and causes flooding and stormwater overflow in urban centers. That's the finding of an exhaustive study of the world's river systems, based on data collected from more than 43,000 rainfall stations and 5,300 river monitoring sites across 160 countries, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Scientific Reports.</font></span></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span class=""><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt><dd class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000" class="">Scientific Reports</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class="" style="font-family: Verdana-Italic;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08481-1" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08481-1</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"The academic community inadvertently made a mistake by introducing climate change using mind numbing scientific details.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">To truly understand what is happening all one needs to worry about is the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Carbon in the atmosphere is the earth’s thermostat. Period."<br class=""><br class="">Editorial<br class="">The Maritime Executive<br class="">We Can Fix Climate Change If We First Fix Congress<br class=""><a href="https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/we-can-fix-climate-change-if-we-first-fix-congress" class="">https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/we-can-fix-climate-change-if-we-first-fix-congress</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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