Attack of the extreme floods
▻http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02745-0
Wahl and a small band of colleagues say that more scientists need to pay attention to the shifting nature of these calamitous events and how they will affect those living near the coast. Such floods will be one of the biggest threats that humanity faces in the future, he says. “When we talk about flood risk, at some point we have to deal with extreme analysis. It’s those high-impact, low-probability events that we really have to worry about.”