title: Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change
author:  Michael Collier 
description: While some books on climatology (such as Bob Reiss's The Coming Storm) sensationalize the destructive aspects of weather, this book presents a balanced and scientific explanation of the environmental effects of climatology. Collier and Webb work for the U.S. Geological Survey and have written numerous books on geology and hydrology. This work shows that floods and droughts don't always signal climate change. Instead, climatology looks at weather over the long term, and individual weather events are part of the natural process of the earth's redistributing the energy it receives from the sun. Moreover, climate change is also a natural phenomenon and not necessarily caused by humans. Though probably intended for a popular audience, this work reads like a freshman college textbook. The exclusive use of metric measurements without English equivalents may also confuse some readers. Still, this is a fine survey of climatology and is recommended for academic and large public libraries.<br /><i>Jeffrey Beall, Univ. of Colorado Lib., Denver </i><br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Extreme Floods 
  and Droughts 
  under Future 
  Climate Scenarios
  Momcilo Markus, Ximing Cai and Ryan Sriver
  www.mdpi.com/journal/water
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  Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Water
  
  Extreme Floods and Droughts under
  Future Climate Scenarios
  
  Extreme Floods and Droughts under
  Future Climate Scenarios
  Special Issue Editors
  Momcilo Markus
  Ximing Cai
  Ryan Sriver
  MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade
  
  Ximing Cai 
  University of Illinois 
  USA
  Special Issue Editors 
  Momcilo Markus 
  University of Illinois 
  USA
  Ryan Sriver
  University of Illinois 
  USA
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