Climate change is NOT the main cause of floods – and those today are ‘nowhere near’ the most extreme that have happened in the past, scientists say
Climate change is usually blamed for today’s wild floods – including the extreme deluge in Spain last year. But despite the common narrative, recent flooding events cannot solely be attributed to climate change, scientists say. Ancient floods going back 8,000 years dwarf modern flooding events which are mistakenly described by some as ‘unprecedented’, they reveal. Â