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Deadly Louisiana deluge had a major climate change assist, study finds
2016-09-08 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: The 7.1 trillion gallons of torrential rainfall that a storm dumped on Louisiana in August, leading to a flooding disaster that killed at least 13 people and caused more than $1 billion in damage, had a direct link to human-caused global warming, a new study finds. In short, while these events are still rare on the order of about once every 1,000 years at the local level they used to be far more infrequent, the study, released Wednesday, concludes. Scientists studying the storm using readings...
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