In western Germany, a flood has led to catastrophic conditions and dozens of deaths.
Climate experts only see the beginning of an extreme period.
Munich - Floods in West Germany and parts of the Eifel as a disaster area - West Germany is fighting the flood. The reason is clear for Greenpeace: The environmental protection organization has described the “current extreme weather” such as heavy rain, floods and floods as the consequences of the climate crisis. “And that's just the beginning,” said climate expert Karsten Smid on Thursday to the
German Press Agency
in Berlin. “With global warming, temperatures are rising to new record levels all over the world.” The atmosphere is heating up and discharging in the form of storms.
With regard to the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), he said: “What it means for the people that the Merkel government has always placed climate protection and climate adaptation behind short-term economic interests is felt most painfully by the population in large parts of Germany Weise. “The black-red government never provided sufficient solutions for climate protection.
Greta Thunberg comments on storms - according to the activist, extreme weather is on the rise
Not only Greenpeace and Smid come to this conclusion.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg also sees the flood disaster in parts of Germany as an indication of the increase in extreme weather events.
The young Swede shared various photos and videos on Twitter on Thursday that showed impressions of flooded streets and cities in Germany and the Netherlands.
In view of the increasing number of natural disasters, the 18-year-old wrote in the morning: “Deadly heat waves, floods, storms, forest fires, droughts, crop failures ... this is not“ the new normal ”.
We are at the very beginning of a climatic and ecological emergency, and extreme weather events will only become more frequent. "
Luisa Neubauer criticizes: "You capitalize on climate impacts"
The leading German climate activist Luisa Neubauer also spoke up on Twitter. She criticized that these events were not linked to the climate crisis. “You can talk about the flood without going into the clear connections between these extremes and the climate crisis. You then just capitalize on climate impacts in order to normalize a policy that ignores science and produces more and more climate crises, ”she wrote.
(cg with dpa)