Climate change exacerbates Europe's floods

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Europe’s deadly floods offer glimpse of future climate

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Storm Boris has ravaged countries including Poland , the Czech Republic, Romania , Austria and Italy , leading to at least 24 deaths and billions of pounds of damage.

One recent four-day period was the rainiest ever recorded in central Europe - an intensity made twice as likely by climate change.

The kind of rainfall unleashed by Boris is still rare expected to occur about once every 100-300 years in today ’s climate.

But if warming reaches 2C , similar episodes will become an extra 5% more intense.

“Our simulations show that if you are able to keep future global warming below 1.5C , which is one of the targets of the Paris agreement, then future flood damage will be cut by half compared to the [business as usual] scenario,” Dr Dottori adds. Otherwise, we know what will happen to these events in the future, Prof Allan says. "The intensity of rainfall and these weather events will only get worse." Map by Muskeen Liddar ..

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