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So you're saying there was a worse drought 500 years ago? In pre-industrial times?

[–] smallpond [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

“We haven’t analysed fully this year’s event because it is still ongoing,” said Andrea Toreti of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. “There were no other events in the past 500 [years] similar to the drought of 2018. But this year, I think, is worse.”