Extreme weather is battering Europe | DW News

Heavy rainfall and storms wreak havoc across northern Italy, France and Germany. According to experts, climate change is likely fueling a surge in extreme weather events across the planet.

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[lg]

I will never forget in college, our environmental conservation professor took us outside for an experiment. We had to carry two buckets of water. We poured one bucket next to the parking lot where there were trees and grass. The other bucket was emptied where there was pavement and buildings. She showed us how trees and plants stop the water by absorbing it. That woman’s position and entire department were defunded because she was seen as a crazy climate lady. Now look.

[ryanslizzard]

people would literally sit inside a burning house and would deny that it's dangerous. that's how far we are.

[Michael-qowx]

Climate Change deniers are like flat earthers at this point.

[conceicaofujisawa]

Thank You to Mr. Marco Marino for mention the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul- Brazil. The catastrophe that took place a few days ago wiped entered cities, left thousands of people and animals displaced, caused deaths and billions in damages to the state.

[monkeybusiness]

A decade or two ago, the media had sporadically discussed climate change. Now it still doing the same. A decade or two later, when the earth has suffered profound damage, we will still see the news discussing climate change.

[bevgordon]

Let’s not forget that where deforestation has been going on for decades and when excessive rains occur you get disastrous results. Especially landslides- trees root systems hold lots of soil and slows down erosion. On the flip side is desertification when lands become treeless and when torrential rains come the soil is baked like pottery and cannot absorb the rain. Anthropogenic-caused disasters plain and simple

[mra]

Why have artificial time restrictions imposed on guests who are sharing important information?

[genauso_ravi]

News channels always run out of time when a professor speaks science 😅

[bennyboy]

Ok so thats where all the rain went, should have come to Norway and Sweden instead

[mujkocka]

Please talk about insurance cost. Let’s remind the cost of climate change and our inactions

[nomadedoasfalto]

Acho que todos nós devemos aprender a nadar ou ter um barco em sua

[michasosnowski]

Some people actually argue that global warming would bring more rain which is good for agruculture. Now they can see what kind of problems that could create.

[frankblangeard]

Levees (dikes) were breached. There were levees (dikes) because the land being used would normally be under water. The levees (dikes) were not well maintained or they would not have been breached.

[DavidMaurand]

wasn't this area suffering through a serious drought for the last few years?

[jlgordey]

nd no one talks about how HUMANS have changed the landscape, especially in Europe; straight rivers, no riparian areas and building homes that do not account for floods. And no one mentions Milankovic cycles either: a natural cycle of the solar system that can create ice ages and climate warming.

[solidorsharp]

Please focus on building the geo engineering solutions, green technologies and bio dome architecture for your architecture and wildlife. We can build solutions proactively !

[MrRomano]

There is raining bad, there is no raining also bad. Decide yourself!

[australiansearchengine]

I heard these two to three-hundred-year events were happening quite regularly nowadays? Does anyone know exactly how often they happen?

[anglosaxonmike]

The latest (AR6) report from IPCC Working Group I (the science working group) could not identify any global trends in extreme weather events, though this statement in the body of the report did not make it into the "Summary for Policy Makers" - a politically (but not scientifically) approved document which appears to drive policy. Few people actually read the full text of the 3 Working Group reports (I have) so significant findings are missed by the mainstream media, Extreme weather events have always been with us, but though the costs of some events have been rising, much of that cost is down to building expensive infrastructure in places where it (and increasing populations) should not have been allowed. When corrected for population density and GDP, costs are not actually increasing. No individual extreme weather event can be attributed to "climate change" when "climate" is normally regarded as a 30-year average of "weather". Most extreme events can be attributed to local coincidence of natural phenomena such as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation - which explains why the frequency and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes is at present on a declining trend - or the Pacific El Nino Southern Oscillation with its known influences on weather both sides of the Pacific. There are many other influences elsewhere leading to extreme events, but global mean temperature does not seem (according to the data) to be one of them.

[Spacemonkeymojo]

The world feels like it's getting a lot worse a lot faster now. A couple of years ago things didn't seem so bad, now everything seems bad.