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“Both Oman and the UAE, which
hosted last year’s COP28 UN climate talks, have previously warned that
global warming is likely to lead to more flooding.
Friederike
Otto, a leader in the field of assessing the role of climate change on
specific extreme weather events, said it was likely that global warming
played a part in this week’s rain.
“It
is highly likely that the deadly and destructive rain in Oman and Dubai
was made heavier by human-caused climate change,” said Ms Otto, of the
Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.” ABC