Climate Change and Flooding - Merkel doesn't say it, but her likely successor does

[UCFBS]

So ... I actually looked into some of the 'facts' on this.

First off, let's get something straight ... many of these regions get less than 3 feet per year in rain. That's 1/3rd as we do here in the SE US, and easily only half as much as the bread basket.

Secondly, they talk about 2 months of rain in a matter of 24 hours. That's less than a half-foot. That happens constantly here in the SE US. In fact ...

The Rhine gets that every decade or two, and floods. They are saying this is the worst flooding in 100 years, but these three (3) provinces have been flooded out like this most recently as the '90s. It seems to happen 4 times a century, on average.

Merkel, to her credit, didn't use the 'Climate Change' phrase, as far as I could find. But one of her likely successors, very much did, and is blaming the US (not China). I honestly give up on Germany at this point. I've taken issues with them ever since they shut down their nukes and were moving against hydro, but adding more wind.

 

[UCFBS]

Case in point ... (1995)

River Rhine Floods 1995 | Background Information

Background information to the River Rhine floods of 1995.

geographyfieldwork.com

Holland is a country where 75% of the land is below sea level and, as a result, 15 million people live below sea level. The dykes are the only protection the Dutch have against flooding. In February 1995, the Rhine and its tributaries (the Meuse and the Mosel), burst their banks in France Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Large areas of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands) were flooded and many major towns were threatened.​

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The Dutch have defended themselves against the sea for centuries by an elaborate network of dykes 2,500 km (1,500 miles) long but, this time the floodwaters came from the rivers, from water flowing as a result of heavy rainfall in the Ardennes and a flood of melted snow in the Alps. For two years running, levels of flooding have occurred that, statistically, would normally happen only once a century. The flood waters swamped farmland, much of it in the polder regions, where the land had been reclaimed from estuaries and river basins.​

 

[sk8knight]

Case in point ... (1995)

River Rhine Floods 1995 | Background Information

Background information to the River Rhine floods of 1995.

geographyfieldwork.com

Holland is a country where 75% of the land is below sea level and, as a result, 15 million people live below sea level. The dykes are the only protection the Dutch have against flooding. In February 1995, the Rhine and its tributaries (the Meuse and the Mosel), burst their banks in France Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Large areas of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands) were flooded and many major towns were threatened.​

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The Dutch have defended themselves against the sea for centuries by an elaborate network of dykes 2,500 km (1,500 miles) long but, this time the floodwaters came from the rivers, from water flowing as a result of heavy rainfall in the Ardennes and a flood of melted snow in the Alps. For two years running, levels of flooding have occurred that, statistically, would normally happen only once a century. The flood waters swamped farmland, much of it in the polder regions, where the land had been reclaimed from estuaries and river basins.​

Statistically would only happen once in a hundred years… in maybe a couple of hundred years we’ve been paying attention out of the billion years the earth’s been spinning.

 

[goodknightfl]

Send Biden to Germany, he can crap his britches and they can bury them in a forest, and the extra fertilizer will help grow trees and bushes that slow Global warming.

 

[hemightbejeremy]

Send Biden to Germany, he can crap his britches and they can bury them in a forest, and the extra fertilizer will help grow trees and bushes that slow Global warming.

You missed the “conservatives embarrassing themselves” thread.