{"id":568,"date":"2011-05-26T09:53:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hydrogeo.wordpress.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:53:41","slug":"anne-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/anne-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Flooding along the Mississippi River<\/strong><br \/>\nLast week, I wrote a post for the Scientific American Guest Blog on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/blog\/post.cfm?id=levees-and-the-illusion-of-flood-co-2011-05-20\">Levees and the Illusion of Flood Control<\/a>,&#8221; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\">ScientificAmerican.com<\/a> on their Science Agenda. (I&#8217;ll add a screenshot if I can dig it back up.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linkages between climate change and severe weather<\/strong><br \/>\nThis morning my name may be in your local newspaper, as I&#8217;m quoted in an article about how this spring&#8217;s severe weather (including flooding along the Mississippi) fits with scientific expectations about climate change. The article was written by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2011\/05\/25\/114781\/tornadoes-floods-droughts-scientists.html\">McClatchey syndicate<\/a> and versions of it may appear in multiple newspapers. For example, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2011\/05\/26\/2326363\/scientists-link-some-severe-weather.html\">Charlotte Observer&#8217;s version of the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flooding along the Mississippi River Last week, I wrote a post for the Scientific American Guest Blog on &#8220;Levees and the Illusion of Flood Control,&#8221; 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, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,160,70,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-floods","category-lab-news","category-natural-hazards","category-outreach"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"ajefferson","author_link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/author\/ajefferson\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}