Climate change doubled likelihood of devastating UK floods of 2000

Source(s): Guardian, the (UK)

Researchers have for the first time quantified the part climate change played in increasing the risk of a severe flood, reports Damian Carrington for The Guardian UK. "It shows climate change is acting here and now to load the dice towards more extreme weather," said Myles Allen of Oxford University in a report by The Guardian UK.

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