Minister Denis Naughten links frequent storms to climate change

The frequent storms and floods hitting Ireland are linked to global warming, according to the Climate Action Minister Denis Naughten said.

“It’s not the case of any particular storm being associated with climate change, but the reality is we are having more frequent storms, more frequent flooding, more frequent 100-year floods and the frequency of that can be associated with climate change,” said Mr Naughten. “We’ve seen in the last number of years we’ve had two 100-year floods in a five-year period.”

He was speaking at a briefing of the National Emergency Co-Ordination Group yesterday in the wake of flooding in Galway and Limerick caused by Storm Eleanor.