A study warns of the devastating future effects of the climate change

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  • 24-08-2021, 09:35
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    INA-Sources

     
    A new study revealed that climate warming has increased the likelihood of severe flooding that swept Germany and Belgium last July, killing more than 200 and causing billions of euros in damage.
     
    According to the study conducted by scientists from the World Weather Attribution, an initiative that brings together experts from various research institutes around the world, the probability of catastrophic floods that swept through these regions increased by nine times due to warming caused by human activity.
    The study added that "climate warming also led to an increase in the rainfall throughout the day by between 3 and 19 percent," according to AFP.
    This is the second study that explicitly blames these natural disasters on global warming.
    The initiative itself concluded that, without climate change, it would have been "almost impossible" for the "heat dome" phenomenon that affected Canada and the American West in late June.
     
    In early August, United Nations climate experts expected global warming to rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era by 2030, ten years earlier than the last estimates made three years ago, threatening the occurrence of new “unprecedented” disasters. In a world hit by successive heat waves and floods.
    At the time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said, "Humans are unequivocally responsible for climate disruptions and have no choice but to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions if they want to limit the consequences."