Up a narrow street in the Spanish province of Valencia, dozens of vehicles lay piled up like twigs after a storm. A year’s worth of rain had fallen on the coastal region in just eight hours, flooding towns and killing more than 200 people who had little warning of the apocalypse that was coming.
Early analysis suggests that global warming increased the likelihood and intensity of the extreme downpour, caused in this case by clashing warm and cold air over the Mediterranean Sea. In Paiporta, a town where at least 60 people died, residents digging themselves out of the devastation hurled mud from the storm at the king and queen of Spain who came to pay a visit, screaming out “killers” as a balm to their impotence and grief.
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Corporate Knights (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2025