Climate alarmist media waking up?
Germany’s climate alarmist media appears to be waking up a little, and thus are not totally buying the claims being made by German leaders that the devastating floods were due to climate change.
It’s becoming increasingly clear the human catastrophe was the result of unimaginable government incompetence.
Though NTZ initially received a few complaints about blaming the loss of life on “criminal negligence” earlier, such complaints have stopped coming in as it is becoming clear as to why nearly 200 people lost their lives.
Catastrophe made possible by “inconceivable ignorance”
Today we are seeing unusually harsh criticism coming from a number of media outlets aimed at the German government’s ineptitude.
For example, ‘Welt’ science editor Axel Bojanowski wrote a commentary [Full English translation] that the flood catastrophe was made possible by “inconceivable ignorance”.
Bojanowski comments further:
Politicians, authorities and the media point to climate change as the cause of the flood disaster. Yet severe weather warnings were not taken seriously. And disaster protection in our country is at the level of a developing country.
The risk was known: Rainfall like this week’s has happened repeatedly in Germany, historical chronicles read like blueprints for the current flood disaster, and hazard maps show the flood risk.
Yet politicians, authorities and the media point to climate change as the cause – while disaster protection in Germany is at the level of a developing country. An unbelievable scandal.
At least 156 people have died because of heavy rain in Germany. Rain had fallen in amounts that have always been expected in Germany and have been an occasional occurrence since time immemorial. The same places that have been devastated by floods of rain this week have been hit in a similar way in the past, as chronicles show.”
A 660-year record of floods
Those claiming that the weather catastrophe came unexpectedly and that there was no way to be ready for it are no longer being taken very seriously, and are only confirming their historical ignorance.
Dr. Karl August Seel provides a comprehensive history of the River Ahr flood events – going back to the year 1348.
The Ahr River, the ground zero of last week’s flood disaster, is the northernmost tributary of the Rhine and has a length of 90 km and a catchment area of 900 square kilometers.
Lethal stupidity
As the chronicles show, flooding events happened dozens of times and the authorities were obviously comatose at the wheel.
For too many years a crusty old bureaucracy focused on climate protection while ignoring protection from the whims of the weather.
Their strategy, as unbelievable as it may sound, was to try to produce good weather by cutting CO2 emissions. It’s that stupid.
The people who want us to think they can rescue the world’s climate couldn’t even manage a flood.
Read more at No Tricks Zone
Back in 1964/65 our area here in Northern California was hit with a Flood that started with Cold Front coming through and dumping lots of snow on us then a warm front called a Pineapple Express turning it to rain no one saying a thing about this Global Warming/Climate Change scam back then because that word did not exist and neither did idiot groups like EDF,Friends of the Earth,Greenpeace and the NRDC
The second to last paragraph is poignant. We can not change the weather. Never could. Beware of the charlatans who claim that we can.
Here’s a guy who claimed he could change the weather. The courts said no.
https://hiddensandiego.net/rainmaker.php
I wonder if there were ever any floods before man entered the scene?
Global Warming alarmist are blaming Exxon, BP and Shell for changing the weather. So of course they believe that they can control it.