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Climate change. Aemet, Spain’s meteorological agency, said Valencia had seen “the most adverse cold drop of the century” prior to the floods.
Despite signs of severe flooding, he did not change his schedule. At a news conference at lunchtime, he cited a national weather forecast saying the storm's intensity would decrease around 6pm ...
Climate change has caused temperatures in the world to rise in the last few decades, and temperatures in Europe have risen twice as fast as the average change in the rest of the world. [1] In Spain , which already has a hot and dry climate, extreme events such as heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent.
As of Thursday, about 300 people remained cut off from rescue due to damaged roads, EFE — Spain's state news agency — reported. Flash floods treated cars like legos, piling one atop the other.
Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.
Ben Clarke, a researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, pointed out that a powerful typhoon made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday, just after the flooding in Spain. “These back-to-back events show how dangerous climate change already is with just 1.3 degrees Celsius of warming," Clarke said in a statement.
As climate change has led to increased flood risk an intensity, flood management is an important part of climate change adaptation and climate resilience. [2] [3] For example, to prevent or manage coastal flooding, coastal management practices have to handle natural processes like tides but also sea level rise due to climate change. The ...
“These deadly floods are yet another reminder of how dangerous climate change has already become at just 1.3C of warming.” Spain’s Aemet also said the climate crisis is to blame for the ...