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Southern Germany hit by catastrophic flooding (www.dw.com)
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Germany is feeling one of the first consequences of climate change - regular catastrophic floodings. One of the last floodings was the one in Ahrtal - here's a report about that one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/13/floods-then-and-now-photographs-germany-ahr-valley-flooding-disaster-july-2021

Hopefully events like these make more people think twice about which party to vote for!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately, I doubt many people will make the connection. Due to the continuing rainfall, it has been relatively cool over the past two weeks. Particularly in Bavaria, the ruling party also has an interest in not understanding that it's connected to climate change.