Last week's floods in Libya, which killed thousands of people, were made all the worse by climate change, according to a new study from World Weather Attribution. The death toll in Libya has soared into the thousands, though the United Nations has revised its confirmed totals downward as reporting from on the ground remains difficult. The researchers found that the storm, which also caused days of flooding in Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, and Turkey before hitting Libya, was made substantially more likely in the warmer world. In Libya, the difference was more stark: the storm was 50 times more likely than in a cooler climate, and it was 50% more intense. A warmer atmosphere is capable of holding more moisture, so extreme rain is becoming increasingly frequent as the climate changes.

Source: Libya Today September 20, 2023 18:03 UTC