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Storm Desmond flooding partly due to climate change, scientists conclude

2015-12-11 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Manmade climate change was partly responsible for Storm Desmonds torrential rain which devastated parts of Scotland, the Lake District and Northern Ireland, scientists have concluded. The researchers at Oxford University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) calculated that climate change had made the flooding event 40% more likely, with the estimate of the increased likelihood ranging between 5% and 80%. The increase we found is small but robust, said Dr Friederike Otto...

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