{"id":470079,"date":"2018-05-03T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2a28df38dde1d7e39768253a2f6da8ed"},"modified":"2018-05-03T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T11:40:01","slug":"global-warming-of-1-5c-or-2c-the-lower-limit-would-reduce-flood-hazards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=470079","title":{"rendered":"Global warming of 1.5C or 2C: The lower limit would reduce flood hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What difference does it make to the Earth&#8217;s water resources if humans limit global warming to 1.5\u00b0C instead of 2\u00b0C? A research group led by Goethe University Frankfurt has simulated these scenarios with global hydrological models. An important result: High flows and thus flood hazards will increase significantly over an average of 21 percent of the global land area if the temperature rises by 2\u00b0C. On the other hand, if we manage to limit the rise in global warming to 1.5\u00b0C only 11 percent of the global land area would be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What difference does it make to the Earth&#8217;s water resources if humans limit global warming to 1.5&deg;C instead of 2&deg;C? A research group led by Goethe University Frankfurt has simulated these scenarios with global hydrological models. An important result: High flows and thus flood hazards will increase significantly over an average of 21 percent of the global land area if the temperature rises by 2&deg;C. On the other hand, if we manage to limit the rise in global warming to 1.5&deg;C only 11 percent of the global land area would be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470080,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470079\/revisions\/470080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}