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Scientists are worried about how fast the climate crisis has amplified extreme weather

21 July 2021
Topic Climate Change, Flood.
Tags Floods.
On Saturday, members of the German military forces search for flood victims in Erftstadt, Germany.

Less than a week since heavy rains in western Europe caused the region’s worst flooding in decades, scientists are expressing surprise at how fast climate change has intensified extreme weather.  

Even more worrying is the fact that climate models, which have for decades predicted fairly accurately the rate of global warming, “are underestimating the magnitude of the impact of climate change on extreme weather events.” This is according to Michael E. Mann, the director of the Earth System Science Centre at Penn State University, who spoke to CNN.

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