Posted on 06/10/2016 6:46:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Paris floods, that saw extreme rainfall swell the river Seine to its highest level in decades, were made almost twice as likely because of the manmade emissions driving global warming, scientists have found.
As artworks in the Louvre were moved to safety and Paris's cobbled walkways were submerged, the French president, Francois Hollande, blamed the floods on climate change.
Now a preliminary analysis by a group of scientists, including the Dutch weather agency and the University of Oxford, has concluded the risk of the flooding event in Paris was almost doubled - multiplied by a factor of 1.8 - by humanity's influence on the climate.
"Hollande was right to say climate change is playing a role but at the same time it's important to say that this event could've happened without climate change," said Prof Pyles Aiken, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford.
The climate science community is speeding up its efforts to draw the links - the attribution - between extreme weather events and climate change, while such events are fresh in the public and politician's minds.
"The crucial thing is decisions... they get made in the aftermath of these events, when minds are focused on the impacts," said Aiken.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Soon there’ll be no more Weather and Seasons ,it will all be called Global Warming
Nature's gonna nate nate nate nate nate nate /taylor swift
What a load of crap!
That’s true - there was no flooding anywhere in the world before Al Gore discovered global warming...
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