⚠️Catastrophic outbreaks of extreme weather have been reported on four continents in one day.
🌏Record floods and forest fires caused emergencies everywhere from the US and Russia to China and New Zealand
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🔥🌧️The spate of apocalyptic images from across the world has raised concerns about the effect of climate change
➡️Environmentalists claim that rising global temperatures make seasonal weather events far more volatile
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🇩🇪Germany
Germany and lowland Europe are attempting to recover from last week's devastating floods.
At least 160 people are now believed to have died in the country's worst natural disaster in half a century
🇧🇪Searches were also under way in Belgium.
31 have been declared dead by the floods and more than 160 people are still missing
🇺🇸 In Oregon and California a massive Bootleg Fire has already burned an area roughly the size of Los Angeles.
More than 2,000 people have been forced to evacuate
Some of the infernos have spread in steep, remote areas almost inaccessible to fire crews.
🔴In all, around 70 active forest fires have burned nearly 1,700 square miles of territory across the US
🇷🇺There were similar scenes in northern regions of Russia.
🔥Smoke from wildfires forced the airport of the Siberian city of Yakutsk to shut, and choked 50 other nearby towns and settlements
🇷🇺 Russian officials said they are the worst fires in 150 years
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🇨🇳In China, a weekend of unusually heavy downpours caused the collapse of two dams at reservoirs serving the Inner Mongolian city of Hulunbuir.
The dams were completely swept away, inundating nearby fields and rushing down motorway lanes
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🇮🇳 In India, 35 people were killed as "monstrous" seasonal monsoon rains fell nationwide, triggering landslides and house collapses
🇳🇿The extreme weather also hit Southern Hemisphere.
A state of emergency was declared in the Buller District on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island which was hit by severe flooding, with thousands evacuated from their homes
⚠️🌏Are these extreme weather outbreaks linked to climate change?
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