The Sun, on Climate, 12 November 2026

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Red ‘danger to life’ alert in Brit holiday hotspots as flash floods turn roads into rivers and dozens evacuated

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What we found (1)

The Sun reports Storm Charles bringing flash floods, evacuations and flight cancellations across Italy, France, Portugal and the Canary Islands, and its main figures match other coverage. It gives heavy rainfall totals and flash floods with no word on how warming makes heavy rainfall worse. This is a minor gap, since no attribution finding for this storm was supplied.

  1. Leaves out the climate link

    Minor

    “Heavy rain was recorded in the southeastern Côte d’Azur region of France, with Cannes reporting 140mm of rainfall”

    Why this matters
    The Sun records extreme rainfall totals and flash floods across several countries, with no word anywhere in the article on climate or warming.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes the downpours and flooding as weather alone, with nothing linking them to a wider change in how heavy rain behaves.
    The context
    The documented record establishes that human-caused warming has made heavy rainfall more frequent or more severe. No supplied coverage gives an attribution finding for this storm, so the gap is general context rather than a misstatement about this event.

    How we know

    • On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
    • Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate” and “warming”.

What it gets right

  • “At least 100 people had to be evacuated from the Tuscan town of Massa as the Frigido River burst its banks after heavy rainfall”

    The Sun gives a specific place, cause and evacuation figure that matches other reporting of the same day.

  • “The Regional Civil Protection Department in Tuscany has urged residents to avoid unnecessary travel and to not attempt to cross flooded roads”

    It names the civil authority and passes on its practical safety advice.

  • “More than 200 flights out of Portugal were cancelled last night, while schools and hundreds of supermarkets and businesses were also forced to close”

    It reports the human disruption in Portugal with figures that match the New York Times account.

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