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European officials say ‘climate change has arrived’ as deadly floods engulf entire towns
European officials have said climate change contributed to this week’s extreme flooding, which has left entire towns submerged and more than 120 people dead.
Scientists have for decades warned that climate change will make extreme weather events, including heavy rain and deadly flooding, more likely.
Around 100 of those killed after torrential rainfall since Wednesday were in Germany’s western states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, where local leaders are urging the world for swifter action on climate change as villages under their watch become a new and unexpected epicenter of global warming.
Neighboring Belgium has also been hit hard by the floods, which have killed 20 people in the country and could rise further, Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said Friday at a press conference.
And, of course
- NPR: Flood Deaths Are Rising In Germany, And Officials Blame Climate Change
- DW: Is climate change fueling floods in Germany?
- Guardian: Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany
- Mother Jones: One Culprit in the Horrific Death Toll From Europe’s Flooding: Climate Change
Plenty more where that came from. Because of course the climate cult has to do this. Did carbon pollution cause
- North Sea Flood of 1953 Netherlands, United Kingdom, killed around 2,000
- Great Sheffield Flood, United Kingdom, killed 270
- February flood of 1825, Germany, Netherlands, 800 dead
- Saint Petersburg of 1824, killed 10,000
- Christmas flood of 1717 Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, 14,000 dead
- St. Peter’s Flood, 1691, Netherlands, Northern Germany, 15,000 dead
- All Saints’ Flood (1570), Netherlands, 20,000 dead
And many more, all before fossil fueled vehicles.
