German floods: Climate change made heavy rains in Europe more likely

Deutsch Welle ^ | August 23, 2021 | by Ajit Niranjan

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Scientists have shown that the deadly floods that devastated northern Europe in July would have been less likely in a world without climate change.

Global warming made the heavy summer rainfall between 3% and 19% stronger, and 1.2 to nine times more likely, according to a study published Tuesday by an international group of climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA). It is a finding that could play a critical role in Germany — the fourth-biggest historical polluter and the country with the highest death toll from the flooding — ahead of elections in September.

"These floods have shown us that even developed countries are not safe," said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute and co-author of the study, in a press statement.

When such weather strikes, WWA researchers run computer models fed by historical data to quantify the role climate change played in a disaster.

In recent years WWA studies have confirmed links between climate change and several extreme events across the world.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[PROCON]

Wir werden alle sterben! (We're all going to die!)

[Regulator]

You know, the last 120 years have taught us that Germans aren’t as smart as they think they are, and tend to overthink things and come to outrageous conclusions.

Which is why they got defeated both times in two world wars.

And make stupid, hysterical claims like this.

[PROCON]

Wir werden alle ertrinken!

[momincombatboots]

Lol.. hard to stay relevant and funded by taxpayers in the era of COVID.

[billyboy15]

“Global warming made the heavy summer rainfall between 3% and 19% stronger, and 1.2 to nine times more likely,...”

LOL, doncha love how precise these jerks are in their lame attempt to sound as if they actually have a clue?

Would love to see the data they used to arrive at these claims.

[PROCON]

You wrote about the flooding extensively on your blog, are the greens running with it?

[crusty old prospector]

They know nothing!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Climate change means dinosaurs.
Everyone loves dinosaurs.

[EEGator]

Absolute unprovable BS.
Krauts should worry about the head choppers they’re importing.

[EEGator]

They should just stick to engineering.

[Carriage Hill]

“...would have been less likely in a world without climate change.”

Words fail me...

[Repeal The 17th]

letztlich (eventually)

[rktman]

Could have, may have, some likelihood! Climageddon believers can phu cough.

[madprof98]

. . . links between climate change and several extreme events across the world . . .

Like the overnight selection of Joe and Kamala as leaders of the Free World?

[Bellagio]

"Scientists have shown that the deadly floods that devastated northern Europe in July would have been less likely in a world without climate change.

... and these quack scientists can SHOW this proof, how? By rigged climate models, baked statistics, a bunch of 'what if-s' and fudged postulates intentionally created to 'suggest' high probability based on hypothetical factors?

LOL!

[freedumb2003]

No, weather did.

[Ouderkirk]

Simple question to the author of this idiocy: Has this ever happened there before? No…. Goodbye

[EEGator]

GIGO.
The most complex algorithm written about climate is written by a man that can’t comprehend every input properly.
Climate is insanely complex.

[dsrtsage]

It will either get wetter, or more droughtier, or possibly more normaller