ANCIENT FLOODS WERE FAR WORSE THAN IN RECENT TIMES

Climate change is NOT the main cause of floods – and those today are ‘nowhere near’ the most extreme

  — Daily Mail

Study author Professor Stephan Harrison at the University of Exeter said recent floods are not exceptional if we look further into the past.

‘In recent years, floods around the world – including in Pakistan, Spain and Germany – have killed thousands of people and caused enormous damage,’ he said.

‘Such floods are seen as “unprecedented” – but if you look back over the last few thousand years, that’s not the case.

‘In fact, floods we call unprecedented may be nowhere near the most extreme that have happened in the past.’ 

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