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OKIsItJustMe

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Wed Sep 18, 2024, 11:08 AM Sep 2024

AP: EU warns deadly flooding and wildfires show climate breakdown is fast becoming the norm [View all]

https://apnews.com/article/eu-climate-floods-wildfires-disaster-8338ec7a0030cc8069800b0e95ed61c9
EU warns deadly flooding and wildfires show climate breakdown is fast becoming the norm
By RAF CASERT
Updated 7:34 AM EDT, September 18, 2024

BRUSSELS (AP) — Devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken, the European Union’s head office said Wednesday.

“Make no mistake. This tragedy is not an anomaly. This is fast becoming the norm for our shared future,” said EU Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarcic.

The worst flooding in years moved Tuesday across a broad swath of Central Europe, taking lives and destroying homes. At the other end of the 27-nation EU, raging fires through northern Portugal have killed at last six people.

“Europe is the fastest warming continent globally and is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events like the one we are discussing today. We could not return to a safer past,” Lenarcic told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France.

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