Was the Libya flooding caused by global warming?

The Derna floods should be a wake-up call for the world on climate change as a result of 11,300 deaths and 10,100 still missing while displacing over 30,000 people in Derna.

The flooding was caused as two dams broke which couldn’t hold the water back after heavy rain fall. Scientists supported by the red cross have found that human caused climate change have made the heavy rain fall in Derna 50 times more likely to occur.

The dead in eastern Libya included at least 84 Egyptians and dozens of Sudanese migrants. with the storm also killing more than 170 people in other parts of eastern Libya.

However even with global warming reaching over 1.2°C warmer than in the past this event is expected to occur once every 300-600 years which is still much higher than in the past.