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      Climate Change Made Libya Flooding Up to 50 Times More Likely, 50% More Intense

      "This devastating disaster shows how climate change-fueled extreme weather events are combining with human factors to create even bigger impacts," said the head of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center.

      Jessica Corbett
      Sep 19, 2023

      International scientists announced Tuesday that an event like the extreme rain that led to deadly flooding in Libya earlier this month "has become up to 50 times more likely and up to 50% more intense compared to a 1.2°C cooler climate," or the preindustrial world.

      Those were among the findings of a World Weather Attribution (WWA) analysis of torrential rainfall in several countries across the Mediterranean during the first two weeks of September, conducted by researchers from Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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      Overturned cars lay among other debris caused by flash floods in Derna

      5,000+ Dead and Thousands More Missing as Libya Ravaged by Extreme Flood Waters

      "In places where systems have collapsed through no fault of local people," said one advocacy group, "climate impacts are being experienced worse than anywhere."

      Julia Conley
      Sep 12, 2023

      The Interior Ministry in eastern Libya said Tuesday that the confirmed death toll in flooding from Storm Daniel has risen past 5,200, with at least 10,000 people feared missing and at least a quarter of the Mediterranean port city of Derna destroyed, according to officials.

      "Bodies are lying everywhere—in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings," Civil Aviation Minister Hichem Chkiouat told Reuters on Tuesday. "I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed."

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