"Unless we stop burning fossil fuels, this rainfall and the associated flooding will only get worse," said Friederike Otto, climatologist at the Imperial College London and a co-author of a report from World Weather Attribution, an international organization of scientists and meteorologists who study the role climate change plays in extreme weather events.
The storm produced between 7 and 20 percent more rain than a similar storm from the pre-industrial era, the report concluded.
A large storm system that affected parts of Central and Eastern Europe earlier this year was two times more likely due to the effects of human-made climate change, a new report indicates.
While such preparations are lifesaving, it is also essential to limit the amount of fossil fuels that are being put into the atmosphere to ensure that the climate crisis doesn't worsen in the future, experts have said.
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