A MAN named Noah is predicting floods across the US. But Noah Diffenbaugh is no biblical prophet. He is a climate scientist at Purdue University, Indiana, and his computer model of the continental US is predicting at least a doubling of extremes of both rain and drought across the US by the end of this century.
“Essentially, that means that what are now the hottest two or three weeks of the year would last two to three months,” says Diffenbaugh. Extreme episodes of rainfall are also projected to double, meaning that the risk of flooding could be much greater as well. “These are very substantial changes…
