My in-laws live on a mountainside overlooking one of the flooded towns.<p>It's a devastating sight, especially knowing that direct family had to be evacuated, while you are sitting in "watching" distance in more or less absolute safety.<p>The reactions of our politicians are not inspiring much confidence, but I guess at this point it is to be expected.
How many extreme outlier events per year do we need before we can stop saying “linking any single event to global warming is complicated” in every article?
I'm looking at a picture of Altenahr flooded: <a href="https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1415629704472760324" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1415629704472760324</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Zersorger/status/1415654344184188932" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Zersorger/status/1415654344184188932</a><p>Isn't that a floodplain? We know what that name means, right?<p>When did this plain last flood?<p>Sadly, "unprecedented" floods should now not also be "unexpected".
Wow.<p>70 deaths in these countries just from flooding seems like... a <i>lot</i> in the year 2021<p>Note: I am fully aware of the dangers/extreme power of fast moving water/flooding
A 20 meter wide river turned into 200 meter wide river. This damaged several villages along the river. A huge area hit by heavy rainfall.<p>Are we just leaving a 10.000 year old equlibrium with nature, <i>an equilibrium specially suited to agriculture and domestication</i> (please compare graphs for 10K years in link below)?<p><a href="https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/" rel="nofollow">https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/</a>
> Dozens<p>Death toll is 80, according to the latest reports<p><a href="https://www.bild.de/news/2021/news/unwetter-news-im-live-ticker-heftiger-regen-flutet-halb-deutschland-77083926.bild.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bild.de/news/2021/news/unwetter-news-im-live-tic...</a>