A regional train in the flood waters at the local station in Kordel, Germany. Image: AP/PA Images A regional train in the flood waters at the local station in Kordel, Germany. Image: AP/PA Images CLIMATE CHANGE MADE the deadly floods that devastated parts of Germany and Belgium last month up to nine times more likely, according to an international study published Tuesday.
To calculate the role of climate change on the rainfall that led to the floods, scientists analysed weather records and computer simulations to compare the climate today – which is around 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer due to man-made emissions – with the climate of the past. They calculated that the floods were between 1.2 and nine times more likely to happen in today’s warmed climate, compared to a scenario where no heating had occurred since the pre-industrial era.
Friederike Otto, associate director of the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, said that the floods showed that “even developed countries are not safe from severe impacts of extreme weather that we have seen and known to get worse with climate change.” They found that similar events could be expected to hit any given area about once in 400 years at current warming levels.This means several events on the scale of the German and Belgian floods are likely across Western Europe within that timeframe, they said.
Like the covid waffle
Leitrim/Roscommon West Meath have been under water for 80 years...
Is going to “fact-check” for this piece of muck
Study = guess
So basically a range of no difference and a factor of Greta 😭😂
Between 1.2 and 9 times. Why take the bigger number for your headline? Ridiculous crap altogether. Then again, what would one expect from this publication.
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