What we finally have to understand about the climate crisis in order to protect ourselves
https://www.vice.com/de/article/pkbxkg/was-wir-endlich-uber-die-klimakrise-begreifen-mussen-um-uns-zu-schutzenThe flood disaster of the past few days made one thing suddenly clear: Nobody is safe in the climate crisis. In Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria, heavy rain wreaked havoc and killed at least 170 people in Germany alone. If it is now being discussed whether these events are related to global warming, it shows one thing above all: the climate crisis is socially, politically and medially not yet understood.
Because even if the so-called attribution research, which explores the connections between climate and extreme weather, should determine in the coming weeks that the flood disaster was only to a lesser extent aggravated by global warming, it is absolutely clear that extreme weather events such as heavy rain and heat waves are on the increase and will cause more and more devastating damage. Climate science has been warning against this for decades