Climate Change Made Historic Brazil Floods Twice As Likely: Study - Barron's
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Climate Change Made Historic Brazil Floods Twice As Likely: Study
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Climate change doubled the likelihood of southern Brazil's historic floods and amplified the intense rains behind them, caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon, scientists said Monday.
"Climate change made the event more than twice as likely and around six to nine percent more intense," said a study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group, a global network of scientists that assesses the link between extreme weather events and climate change.
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