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Big floods triggered by climate change |
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by Hydrologist
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27 Apr 2005
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Knox decided to look back -- way back ... the sediments from the Mississippi River beds ... evidence of flood activity as far back as 7,000 years ago. |
"No, it doesn't take much of a change of climate to trigger a big change in the magnitude and the recurrence frequencies of flood events," James Knox, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies.
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