This ad has not yet been loaded, but your article will be displayed further down in the list
This year the Chilean authorities have had to supply about 400.000 people in rural areas with water.
Natural fluctuations in ocean and atmospheric temperatures also played a role, the researchers said.
This mighty Block, wider than the US mainland, is now 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than 40 years ago.
Areas near the ocean were warming significantly more slowly during this time and, according to the study, are only around 0.2 to 1 degree Celsius warmer.
The fact that some of the warm water, covering more than one million square miles (8 million square kilometers), could affect conditions hundreds of miles away in Chile is showing how far climate change will affect the planet, said ocean and climate researcher Dillon Amaya, also at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
