Anne in the news

Flooding along the Mississippi River
Last week, I wrote a post for the Scientific American Guest Blog on “Levees and the Illusion of Flood Control,” about the ways that while levees around individual communities may be good, the systematic leveeing of entire waterways is a bad long-term strategy. On Friday, that post was also featured on the front page of ScientificAmerican.com on their Science Agenda. (I’ll add a screenshot if I can dig it back up.)

Linkages between climate change and severe weather
This morning my name may be in your local newspaper, as I’m quoted in an article about how this spring’s severe weather (including flooding along the Mississippi) fits with scientific expectations about climate change. The article was written by the McClatchey syndicate and versions of it may appear in multiple newspapers. For example, here’s the Charlotte Observer’s version of the story.