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Frequency of Flooding Across Europe May Double by 2050

2014-03-09 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: The catastrophic floods that soaked Europe last summer and the United Kingdom this winter are part of the pattern of things to come. According to a new study of flood risk in Nature Climate Change annual average losses from extreme floods in Europe could increase fivefold by 2050. And the frequency of destructive floods could almost double in that period. About two thirds of the losses to come could be explained by socio-economic growth, according to a team led by Brenden Jongman of the University...

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