The devastating floods seen in Cork last week are something Ireland will “have to get used to”, an expert on climate change has said.
, climatologist Professor John Sweeney said all extreme weather events have the ““We know that this particular storm, however, developed in the very warm waters off the coast of Portugal,” he said.
“We’ve been having a marine heatwave most of the summer and autumn, so it was developing in waters which were 1-2“That means it could hold a lot more water vapours, so it’s arriving on our shores supercharged and it’s that really which, I think, is pointing to the climate change dimension as being instrumental in making the event more extreme -Professor Sweeney said there is “no doubt” Ireland’s climate is changing and the floods in Cork will happen again.
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