{"id":123724,"date":"2023-10-12T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123724"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:42:25","slug":"ft-global-water-cycles-are-spinning-out-of-balance-weather-agency-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123724","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Global water cycles are \u2018spinning out of balance\u2019, weather agency reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world will experience an \u201cincreasingly erratic\u201d water cycle as climate change drives new patterns of both extreme flooding and drought across the globe, the World Meteorological Organization has forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said hydrological cycles were \u201cspinning out of balance\u201d and that more robust monitoring systems were needed, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as it released a report on global water patterns in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Droughts, extreme rainfall and melting snow and glaciers threatened long-term water security, the WMO said, underscoring the need for monitoring apparatus and better sharing of cross-border data on water patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a8c1b4cb-e7ec-4dd7-9eac-8adc2d874a96\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Global water cycles are \u2018spinning out of balance\u2019, weather agency reports <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y6TM67Tcnb\">https:\/\/t.co\/y6TM67Tcnb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Financial Times (@FT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FT\/status\/1712378330031259844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world will experience an \u201cincreasingly erratic\u201d water cycle as climate change drives new patterns of both extreme flooding and drought across the globe, the World Meteorological Organization has forecast. The agency said hydrological cycles were \u201cspinning out of balance\u201d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123724\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,683,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-weather","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123727,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123724\/revisions\/123727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}