{"id":142254,"date":"2025-12-12T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142254"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:00:09","slug":"flood-expert-xu-chongyu-leaves-europe-for-china-as-climate-change-speeds-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142254","title":{"rendered":"Flood expert Xu Chongyu leaves Europe for China as climate change speeds up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor three decades, Xu Chongyu was Europe\u2019s secret weapon against the rising tides. From his quiet office at the University of Oslo, his hydrological models have guarded cities from Copenhagen to Brussels, predicting floods before the first clouds formed.<br \/>\nBut the climate clock was ticking fast and his homeland needed him, so the Chinese-born scientist decided to leave.<br \/>\nA homecoming ceremony was held for Xu on December 3 at North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU) in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336213\/flood-expert-xu-chongyu-leaves-europe-china-climate-change-speeds?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor three decades, Xu Chongyu was Europe\u2019s secret weapon against the rising tides. From his quiet office at the University of Oslo, his hydrological&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}