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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Climate change amplified storm that sank tycoon's superyacht—with expert predicting more catastrophes in Italy

Mike Lynch is among those missing after his boat sank off the coast of Italy. (Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg - Getty Images)

Global warming may have contributed to the extreme weather which led to the fatal sinking of a yacht off the Italian coast, the nation's meteorological society president believes.

British-flagged yacht the 'Bayesian' capsized and sunk off the coast of Sicily on Monday.

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