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climate change coming home to roost
In this instance, is that really the case if it's hitting those in Eastern European countries over places like China, the US, India etc? I imagine their overall contribution to global emissions to be orders of magnitude smaller than even places like Germany.
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A global cause leads to a global effect. Can't expect extreme weather to target the nations with highest emissions, it doesn't work like that.
Also, I know someone out that way (Czech) & he said 99% are fine & that flood prevention measures built since the 1997 floods have been highly effective.
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China and the US have had extremely severe flooding in recent years. Just look at this list of significant US flood events and how the incidence increases over the years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)
Northern Europe is a water-rich environment and has been hydrologically managed by humans on a large scale for much longer than the US. It's only in recent decades that old (and planned) floodplains have been built on, as in the UK, so that disastrous flooding events have become more threatening, as along the river Elbe, particularly in Dresden, in 2002. Quite a lot has been done since then, and the flood now coming along the Elbe won't hit Germany unprepared, but as Germany is a huge polluter, it is certainly affected, too.
That climate chaos is 'coming home to roost' is not news, though. It's obviously been going on for years. It's everywhere, too. Brazil, Nigeria, you name it.
rhb
Oliver Schick
In other news, climate change coming home to roost - does anyone know whether this is likely to happen with the Thames?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/flooding-budapest-wroclaw-poland-europe-b2614165.html