Extreme flooding in Maryland is a glimpse into our disaster-filled future

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Extreme flooding in Maryland is a glimpse into our disaster-filled future

Extreme flooding in Maryland is a glimpse into our disaster-filled future

Last weekend, Ellicott City's quaint Main Street, with red, white, and blue decorations draped from storefronts, became a churning brown river.*

While several factors resulted in this Maryland town's second "1,000-year storm" occurring in just the last 22 months, one increasingly significant contribution to the flooding is the amount of water vapor accumulating in Earth's warming atmosphere.

The flooding in Maryland fits within the broader context of how human-caused climate change is altering our atmosphere, making these Extreme events more commonplace in the future.

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