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I was amazed to learn that Europe has been having serious floods for centuries, even before climate change was an industry creating loads of well paid jobs

I thought the current floods in Germany were caused by the actions of bad people in recent decades having listened to various media reporting.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Have they never heard of noah's ark.

It is also possible both facts are true!

From what I understand, the flooding does have historical precedents so hysteria about 'global warming' does not really stick.

But the bigger story is political, all around how a warning system that predicted this all days in advance, has been largely ignored.

Given the scale of deaths, and the destruction, then it is clearly a major tragedy with bad weather causing mayhem all over Europe (saw footage this morning from Kiev that had tube stations being flooded). Horrible scenes.

Heart-breaking for our European friends.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Going solely by your link, there have been 27 fatal floods in Europe this century (so far - still 80% of this century yet to happen). That compares to 18 fatal floods the previous century, 8 fatal floods the century before that.

"Europe has been having serious floods for centuries" - it always amazes me that people can look at a set of facts and only see what they want to see.

Edited by Seagles (19 Jul 2021 2.42pm)

Town and cities were almost exclusively built next to water. Whether that be coast or river matters not. Water was, and still is, the life giver. Either for drinking, fishing or transportation, it was necessary to be near water. When towns and cities were smaller, the rainfall could easily make it's way to the rivers and streams, and eventually the sea/ocean. But, guess what? We expanded the towns and cities to accommodate the population that thrived from the water the lived next to. Now, the water needs to come through those towns and cities to get to the oceans and seas.

"it always amazes me that people can look at a set of facts and only see what they want to see"

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers