Pilar Brufau
Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Materials and Fluids Science and Technology at the University of Zaragoza
The WWA lists some of the causes of the disasters that have occurred in Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Libya and Spain in recent weeks from a rigorous point of view supported by observations and predictions of scientifically validated models, although not all of them could be considered as a consequence of climate change, as they point out in their report.
The magnitude of the catastrophe in the case of Libya is not only due to rainfall, but also to the poor state of the dams, which has produced a chain disaster that could have taken place at any time and not because of the increase in global temperature or the greater accumulation of rainfall due to climate change.
The same can be said in the case of Spain, where the damage can be caused by the well-known cold drop phenomenon, independently of global warming, although it is true that global warming can cause this type of event to intensify and even occur more frequently, as the scientists who carried out the analysis point out.