In the past 20 years the US state of Iowa has experienced three crisis-level floods, the latest, in 2008, put nearly a third of the state underwater. ‘It was a 500 year flood, causing $60 billion in damages”, said the Very Revd Cathleen Bascom, dean of the Cathedral Church of St Paul in downtown Des Moines, adding that the frequency of the floods ‘is what opened our eyes to the climate change issue’.
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