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Climate change is NOT the main cause of floods, scientists say

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Climate change is usually blamed for today 's wild floods including the extreme deluge in Spain last year .

But recent floods are not exceptional if we look further into the past, scientists say.

Ancient floods going back 8,000 years dwarf modern flooding events, they say.

They were happening well before greenhouse gas emissions soared around the time of the industrial revolution.

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