If temperature continue to rise for the best 20 years, what is most likely to happen to the likelihood of floods ? Choose the RIGHT answer below A.) Flood magnitudes would increase in some regions and decrease in the other regions. B.) Flood magnitudes would increase. C.) Flood magnitudes would remain the same as now D.) Flood magnitudes would decrease.
If temperature continue to rise for the best 20 years, what is most likely to happen to the likelihood of floods ? Choose the RIGHT answer below A.) Flood magnitudes would increase in some regions and decrease in the other regions. B.) Flood magnitudes would increase. C.) Flood magnitudes would remain the same as now D.) Flood magnitudes would decrease.
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If temperature continue to rise for the best 20 years, what is most likely to happen to the likelihood of floods ? Choose the RIGHT answer below
A.) Flood magnitudes would increase in some regions and decrease in the other regions.
B.) Flood magnitudes would increase.
C.) Flood magnitudes would remain the same as now
D.) Flood magnitudes would decrease.
Transcribed Image Text:Observed U.S. Temperature Change
Map of the United States showing the change in average temperature from 1991-2012
NASA Earth Observatory/ US Global Change Research Program
Trends in Flood Magnitude
Midwest
Southwest
Temperature
Change (F)
10b15
0.5 1.0
0005
05500
15
Decade (%)
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