This is what externalizing costs looks like. Neither the industries driving climate change nor the economies benefitting from those industries are forced to bear the costs of their decisions. Exxon profits are driven by their not having to account for the harms they cause.

Yet we’re still driving headlines about the “surge” in shoplifting.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

East Africa has an annual rainy season in fall, but this year’s disastrous rainfall is about double what it would have been without human-caused climate change, according to research made public on Thursday.

A natural climate cycle called the Indian Ocean Dipole has also contributed to heavier rain than usual, but this phenomenon alone does not account for the extreme amount.

“As we continue to burn fossil fuels, we will definitely be experiencing more of these events,” Joyce Kimutai, a climate scientist at Imperial College London who works with World Weather Attribution, said at a press conference on Thursday.

The researchers estimated that with today’s climate conditions, similar extreme rainfall events would have a 2.5 percent chance of happening in any given year.

In this case, the researchers had access to robust data from Kenya, but many other African countries don’t have enough well-maintained weather stations.

The current rains follow a three-year-long drought, which dried out soil and paved the way for flash floods, and which had already caused widespread crop failures, livestock deaths and hunger in the region.

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