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...adapt to a problem you don't admit exists," notes Richard Klein of the Stockholm Environment Institute, another IPCC co-author. The U.S. has only recently acknowledged global warming, while other countries are already taking concrete action to prepare for its impact. The Netherlands has some of the strongest flood defenses in the world and is making them stronger. Britain has doubled spending on flood and coastal-defense management, to about $1 billion a year. France, Spain and Finland have launched less ambitious adaptation initiatives. Even Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest nations, is taking action...
...maintain this level in the face of greater anticipated flows down the Rhine River (thanks partly to accelerated snowmelt in the Alps), the Dutch are radically revising traditional flood-management thinking. Instead of trying to contain floods, they will accommodate the extra water flow by allowing predesignated areas to flood. The strategy is called Living with Water. Near Nijmegen, the oldest town in Holland, a sparsely populated strip of land that is home to farms and a nature reserve will be allowed to flood to spare the more heavily populated areas downstream. Birds in the nature preserve can fly away...
...second frame began much like the first, with the Pioneers taking a 13-1 lead just a minute in. But the Crimson responded, as Flood scored unassisted to begin the six-goal half...
...Crimson was finally able to break through the thin air and the Pioneer defense just over 20 minutes into the first half, when sophomore attack Kaitlin Martin took a pass from freshman attack Sarah Flood and scored the team’s first goal of the game. The score was 6-1 at that point, but Denver responded just 40 seconds later with a score from Leggio to make it a six-goal margin...
...think we were able to build up a lot of momentum early because our faceoff guy, [co-captain] John Henry Flood, was doing an excellent job getting fast breaks,” Stenmark said. “That’s what we wanted, seeing how one of our best shooters on the team is Evan Calvert...