Due to climate change, heavy rains such as those that caused devastating floods in Central Europe last September are more likely to occur, the international scientific group World Weather Attribution (WWA) warned in its latest report, which calls on decision-makers to take action to limit climate change. Climate. Stop global warming.

WWA, which studies extreme weather events related to climate change In its meaning I determined that Hurricane Boris, with four days of rainfall, was the strongest on record in Central Europe.

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The worst floods seen in Central Europe in the past two decades have claimed 24 lives, caused extensive property damage, and caused significant damage to buildings and bridges, and the restoration process could consume billions of dollars. According to the report's authors, the probability of such heavy rains has at least doubled, and their strength has become seven percent more intense.

How could Hurricane Boris become so destructive?

A unique weather phenomenon developed in Europe in September, which was greatly exacerbated by not-so-unique climate change and a record hot European summer. Our prospects are not encouraging either: more and more such weather phenomena are expected to occur on the continent in the future, and they will become more intense.

Joyce Kimutai, a researcher at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College London and co-author of the study, emphasized that the floods once again highlight the devastating effects of rising temperatures caused by fossil fuels.

“Until oil, gas and coal are replaced by renewable energy, storms like Boris will cause more intense rainfall and flooding with economic damage,” he added.

According to the report, such a storm is expected to occur on average once every 100 to 300 years in today's climate, with temperatures rising by 1.3 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.

However, if temperatures reach 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which is expected to happen in the 2050s, such storms will bring at least 5 percent more rain and occur 50 percent more often than now, And it's drawing the world's attention. Study authors.

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