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With global warming, the risk of 100-year floods increases by 40% in Paris
Will Paris soon have its feet in the water? If the formula is smiling, the projections of the consequences of global warming on the French capital – where the temperature has already increased by 2.3 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era – are alarming. According to a report from the City of Paris, the risk of a ten-year flood increases by 20% and that of a hundred-year flood by 40%. In the coming years, “the volume of precipitation should increase