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Climate change has made these catastrophic rains up to two times more intense, turning what should be manageable seasonal weather into deadly disasters that kill hundreds across East Africa. Human-caused global warming is directly responsible for the increasing frequency and severity of extreme rainfall events that are devastating vulnerable populations still recovering from previous climate-driven droughts. Rich countries burning fossil fuels are destabilizing Earth's climate system and causing these lethal floods.
There is a 33 percent chance that Ethiopia will experience a successful coup d'etat before 2040, according to the Metaculus ürediction community.
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