Famous meteorologist: "We are on the verge of the sixth mass extermination on Earth"
Could the consequences have been prevented and how much have climate changes affected the floods?
The head of the Directorate for Climate Activities of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Dunja Mazzocco Drvar, spoke about this, as "Jutarnji list" reports.
"Things like this generally have to do with climate projects. However, for each individual thing, a weather event, a certain analysis must be done to see that it has to do with climate change, and studies are done when everything is over, when the damage is assessed. Certainly, extreme weather events are the main consequence of climate change. I wouldn't even say the consequence, but the phenomenon given that the consequence sounds like it will be in the distant future and this is something that is already happening," she said.
The question is whether the events could have been foreseen, whether something could have been done to avoid such tragic consequences? For example, evacuate people, or think about building a better flood defense earlier?
"The forecasts are getting better and better and it is certain that warnings will be issued on time. However, something like this is terribly difficult to predict, because if it does not happen, then it is just attributed to panic. We have not yet learned to live with those warnings. We have learned everything and we call it adaptation to climate change because in addition to working to reduce the harmful effects on the climate we are also working on adaptation, so there are various ways we will have to adapt to things like this because they will be more frequent and there will be more of them", Mazzocco Drvar emphasized for RTL Today.
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