It is your impression: it's getting worse. The last decade has focused 50 of 180 major floods in 100 years. Despite having less than other brand disasters, unprecedented rains caused havoc in Rio de Janeiro: 700 dead and 14,000 displaced and homeless.
But nothing comparable to China and India, where population density leads to tragedies with million-plus victims of the destruction, flooding spread infected diseases.
The statistics that point to the increase of the problem has always been viewed with reservation by meteorologists.For them, it takes a long historical sequence to demonstrate a change. For this change began to be proven. For the first time, it was proven that greenhouse gases cause increased rain. That is, there is only getting worse as it is our fault. '' Now we can say with confidence: intesidade increased rainfall in the late 20th century can not be explained by existing climate models'', told Nature magazine researcher Gabriele Hegerl, head of research at the University of Edinburgh, UK . It is only a first step, but there in front may still result in compensation by rich countries by floods in poor regions. At least now science accepts that the weather is
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