Photo: Ľubomír Smatana, Czech Radio
A new study, carried out by an international team of scientists, shows that the devastating floods that hit Czechia and other central European countries were made much worse by man-made climate change. The fossil fuel driven warming also increases the likelihood of such events happening in the future.
According to the study carried out by the World Weather Attribution Initiative in the immediate aftermath of the flooding, the four-day rainfall from Storm Boris was the heaviest ever recorded in Central Europe, surpassing previous records by a wide margin.
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Author: Ruth Fraňková, Jan Kaliba