Study: Climate Change Not Causing Madagascar Drought, Famine

Children sit by a dug out water hole in a dry river bed in the remote village of Fenoaivo, Madagascar, Nov. 11, 2020. Don’t blame climate change for the devastating Madagascar drought and famine, scientists said in a new quick analysis. World Weather Attribution, which does real time studies of extreme weather throughout the world, examined the drought where Madagascar has had only 60% of its normal rainfall from July 2019 to June 2021 and found no statistically significant fingerprint of human-caused climate change. Instead, this was just a random weather quirk, one that has a chance of happening once every 135 years or so, the study said Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Laetitia Bezain)

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By Associated Press

December 1, 2021 at 6:15 PM EST

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(AP) -- Don’t blame climate change for the devastating Madagascar drought and famine, scientists said in a new analysis Wednesday.

World Weather Attribution, which does real time studies of extreme weather throughout the world, examined the drought, which has left Madagascar with 60% of its normal rainfall from July 2019 to June 2021.

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