Keeping up with the world's extreme weather events is as depressing as it is endless. This article links together three recent ones:-
Australian wildfires, Venice flooding and England flooding.
In the true style of nationalistic journalism, the BBC leads with the news from UK, although the Australian fires are way more serious and the pics of flooded Venice way more poignant:-
One take-away from the article:-
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[Some scientists] believe that the link between climate change and extreme events is now as strong as the link between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer.
"You can never make a direct connection and say my grandad died of lung cancer because of smoking because you can't figure out how the cancer exactly originated; there might be other factors," said Prof Gabi Hegerl.
"But you can say for sure that if you smoke the probability of coming down with lung cancer is hugely increased. The same methods have been applied to the climate problem."
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