Three Balkans Nations Among Six Hardest-Hit By Extreme Weather Events In 2014 - Reuters

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PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Three Balkan nations - hard hit by severe flooding - were among the six countries most affected by extreme weather events in 2014, researchers said on Thursday. Serbia came top and Bosnia and Herzegovina in third place. The two Southeast European countries suffered the heaviest rainfall and worst flooding since records began 120 years ago, according to the annual Global Climate Risk Index.

The floods in mid-May caused losses and damage of over $2 billion in Serbia, while flooding and landslides displaced over 90,000 people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, think tank Germanwatch said in a report released with the index at U.N. climate talks in Paris.

Bulgaria, in sixth place, was hit by floods and a severe hailstorm, badly affecting agriculture and tourism, and recording a death toll of 31 in 2014.

"Patterns of extreme precipitation is what people and countries will likely face in a warming climate," said Sönke Kreft, author of the study and international climate policy lead at Germanwatch.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-summit-weather-index-idUSKBN0TM2L620151203#gbUlEoRWBXdV3PP8.97

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1. That's not climate change

God just can't stand the Serbs.