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How human activity drove the Valencia tragedy.

“The moist, polluted layers of air pile up over the Mediterranean Sea, layer upon layer, day by day, three to five days at a time. Those layers, soupy with powerful greenhouse gases like water vapor and ozone, steadily warm the sea below, so that by the end of summer the warmed sea begins supercharging coastal storms.”

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-07-17/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-mediterranean-storms/