Scientists urged to pull the plug on 'bathtub modeling' of flood risk

Recent decades have seen a rapid surge in damages and disruptions caused by flooding. In a commentary article published in the journal Earth's Future, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom—the latter also executives of U.K. flood risk intelligence firm Fathom—call on scientists to more accurately model these risks and caution against overly dramatized reporting of future risks in the news media.