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"We will be faced with such events over and over, and that means we need to speed up climate protection measures, on European, federal and global levels, because climate change isn't confined to one state," Laschett said.

I grew up in Sherman, TX. Two years straight we had a "100 year" flood. No one said anything about climate protection measures.

Our effect on the climate is minimal at best. It's been changing since the dawn of time. Weather patterns happen. Oceanic changes happen. Heck ... weren't all the continents once one big blob of land?

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I grew up in Sherman, TX. Two years straight we had a “100 year” flood. No one said anything about climate protection measures.

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Additionally, the term ‘100 year flood’ doesn’t actually mean only once per hundred years, but rather floods deeper than a point on a statistical curve.