Are Greenhouse Gases Upping the Risks of Flooding, Too?
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 21:00
in Earth & Climate
In autumn 2000 devastating floods swept through England and Wales, inundating homes, swamping roads and rail lines, and requiring the evacuation of more than 11,000 people. That fall was the wettest in the region since records began in 1766, and the subsequent flooding caused billions of dollars in damage. Now climatologists suggest that climate change doubled the odds of such catastrophic flooding in 2000. [More]