Floods, drought and the consequences of extreme weather | DW Documentary

Long periods of sunny weather; a few heavy rain showers. That’s all fine...or is it? With increasing frequency, summer days are turning into long periods of drought, while rainfall is causing catastrophic flooding.
Whereas weather systems were relatively moderate and predictable in recent centuries, now they appear to have been thrown off balance. What’s heading our way - and what can we do to protect ourselves?
29 May 2016 is a day Frank Harsch will never forget. The mayor was in his office at the town hall in Braunsbach near Schwäbisch Hall in southern Germany. The rain was coming down in buckets. Suddenly he felt the building vibrate. When he looked out of the window, he saw a wave of brown water crashing past, carrying cars and debris along with it.
A storm and a few hours of heavy rain was all it took to transform a village stream into a devastating monster wave. Suddenly, Braunsbach was a disaster zone. It’s a situation that’s becoming all too familiar. The opposite scenario is equally common, of late: heatwaves and droughts that last several months. Despite the many flood catastrophes of summer 2021, in many regions it’s simply too dry.
In other areas of Germany, trees are dying because moisture isn’t penetrating deep enough into the ground to reach the roots. Rainfall has decreased to such an extent in recent years that forestry workers have been forced to come up with new ways to direct water to where it’s most needed.
In the film, weather experts and climate researchers predict what the future may have in store for us. Their forecasts may be bleak, but there are solutions and initiatives in place to at least try and mitigate the effects of extreme weather events.
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[@m.j.golden4522]

I lived in the VOSGES mountains in France on the other side of the Black mountains of Germany in 2005 on an isolated farm in the low mountains of Lorraine. Luckily eight years before we had created a very large pond that had freshwater from the mountains running through it and then evacuating into a small river known as a RUISSELLE in French. During the drought of 2005 where it is said that 50,000 people died all over Europe or Western Europe, the animals were also suffering. At night, they would come to our pond and drink and of course poachers would also come to try and kill them because they knew they were drinking at our pond. I would spend the night awake searching for cars arriving at my house with their lights off so that no one would see them. I would open my window and pretend to call my dogs raising my voice to the top of my lungs in order to warn the animals that danger approached. This went on for about six weeks. We always talk about people suffering but the animals who have no reason to suffer at our hands, also were devastated. "Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission -- to be of service to them whenever they require it." -- St. Francis of Assisi

[@nicolarollinson4381]

Smart 🌈💚

[@ihartsacto]

So thankful you served the lord and the animals we are husbands to according to the Bible. God bless you. I am quite touched by your testimony.

[@strawdemindset]

will be interesting if the "radical" climate policy were protesting about now is whats needed. Only thing is .... when we get the answer it will be too late

[@looki9144]

♥️

[@henrietta9206]

thank you, MJ for saving the animals!

[@omesonyabs5244]

Strangely enough, of all the experts, none addressed the decline in soil biology. The death of microorganisms due to our use of pesticides and modern agricultural practices, has led to a serious decline in organisms that work the soil and promote its permeability.

[@spicyirwin5835]

Perma frost & snow melting is allowing bacteria that has been buried to be released. We have no water to farm or for cows. Fish have mercury & pollution & plastics. Humans r not the smartest beings. Earth was beautiful. Space travel heats up our planet so much faster.

[@TheBibi0602]

Because that would cause Monsanto to lose money... That's not what this is about, they don't give a f%^& about the climate! They want to impose regulations under the GUISE of climate change and then bankrupt farmers so that they can buy up farm land and land. One of the biggest land owners in the USA is Bill gates. How is it possible that the biggest wealth transfer happened during Covid? Under the GUISE of health and safety.

[@omesonyabs5244]

@@TheBibi0602 Isn't that the same type of people that design the education system that pumps out all these experts? Funny how the world works huh?

[@stevepierce6467]

Part of the reason we are burning more fossil fuels is that there are 3x as many of us burning fossil fuels as there were just 60 years ago. Also, all these people want food, and lots of land that should be fallowed every other year, or land that should be left in grass, is being cultivated every single yoar, never letting the land recover. That degrades soil quality enormously.

[@rebeccacombs8781]

The smallest things usually mean the most...

[@meh3247]

If there's one thing that impending climatic catastrophe _has_ taught us, it's that ignorance is not bliss at all. Ignorance is terrifying and makes the ignorant reach for all sorts of insane solutions, fantastical delusions and blunt denials, all in an attempt to mitigate those fears. Ignorance, it turns out, is fear.

[@meh3247]

@tiko tiko All the very best of luck with that.

[@kingkezz9188]

@tiko tiko Stop cloud seeding and haarp. Problems solved 😇

[@meh3247]

@@kingkezz9188 Jolly good luck to you too.

[@tinetannies4637]

Just as bad as ignorance are people who become "educated" via slogans and propaganda and neither know it nor do they care, because the slogans and propaganda reinforce their own biases. For example, I'velost track of how many people confidently state, incorrectly, that volcanoes spew more CO2 into the atmosphere than jets. It's a comforting thing to believe because it lets humanity off the hook, and this sort of fallacy has a gazillion others that go with it. All confidently presented as "fact".

[@spicyirwin5835]

Crimea can only have water a few hrs a day so Putins answer to climate chg starving Russians was invading Ukraine. Deflection to real prob of earth over heating. Solar flares will be coming soon also.

[@cosmic2096]

In the end nature will win

[@b_uppy]

Nature is the cure.

[@double2mo382]

At least some countries are doing something about climate change not like others whose greedy companies won't allow them to do anything.

[@uchiha21ish]

Nature never lost

[@josephinenilsson1541]

Nature doesn’t have a will or a goal. It is simply reacting to what we are doing through simple actions and consequences. It’s like deliberately setting fire to your house and then go “yes. In the end fire will always win”.

[@imlovely6522]

Nature! May I remind you the fact that the good old West would commit and practice a great many cardinal sins, many of them knowingly, such as centuries-long global 'Colonization', 'Genocide', 'Slavery', 'Colonialism', 'Global Warming', etc which benefits them enormously for centuries worldwide; then they would initiate and take a measure to ban those practices worldwide, and take credit for it. [Note: Today's 'Global Warming' is caused by nearly two centuries of excessive coal burning, mainly in the Western nations]... For plain truths, pls read the insightful multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment at: "China-US tensions: A closer look at the Five-Eyes intelligence partnership / CGTN".

[@Noms_Chompsky]

I seem to recall 40 years ago people talking about stuff like this happening in the future, I wonder why we never did anything about it

[@dawnbolton6024]

Greed

[@user-xc1fo1fc7g]

bbbut but but muh Florida is still above water /s

[@lrvogt1257]

Corporate profits.

[@myra0224]

Because the people who are suffering aren't the people who can change anything about this. Besides, they'll say "oh, the next ones will change it" and keep shoving it further into the future until now, where people are constantly dying yet still no one in power wants to change anything

[@portalkey5283]

BECAUSE, LIKE THE PEOPLE ON THE VIDEO, THEY ALWAYS THOUGHT IT ONLY HAPPENS SOMEWHERE ELSE.

[@jessicajae7777]

I live in the USA and I just want to say that I love this channel and have incredible respect for Germany and it's resolve to be better every day and for having something so progressive as this. America does not. It's so disgustingly corrupt here. The politicians are the worst humans on earth. The medical and insurance community are killing people by providing a service motivated by money. So many Americans are sheep. The hope is that there's a worldwide collective consciousness that's closing the gap and will soon balance good over evil. I have to believe that and by each person doing their part by being active in making sure that balance changes is what will ensure it does. I feel this channel is a huge part of it and we need something like this in America. Thankfully I'm noticing that there's more knowledge about the Federal Reserve and the Central Bank and it's system of producing money that doesn't exist yet steals Americans money is being spoken about on a more broad platform. It needs more. Maybe you guys could research this and do a show about it. I wonder if you already have. There needs to be a way to search only a channel. Is there and I just don't know how? Again thank you for what you all do. Sincerely J. Rosenbaum

[@bengagnon2894]

@@darthvader1793 The US has a rich history of stealing from other countries and turning them into 3rd world countries. And this is still going on. So much so that the US is turning itself into a 3rd world country now.

[@msallies]

There is a book titled, 'The Great Waves of Change' written by Marshall Vian Summers that can be read online for free. The book explains the steps you can take to navigate our increasingly turbulent and uncertain times. "The Great Waves will strike the planet from every direction, increasing in intensity and frequency. Taken together, these Great Waves of Change will impact humanity more than the World Wars. This is not just one event affecting one nation, but a cascading series of perfect storms that will affect every nation on Earth. ~ A quote from The Great Waves of Change

[@francoispellicaan4946]

This book felt a bit pessimistic when it was published many years ago but right now we are starting to live the reality this book describes.

[@johnchapman5125]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@0animalproductworld558]

DW talks about serious problems in this world 🐇 Good job 🐎 God bless you and rescue all animals 🦃

[@germanevision]

If humans lived like animals we wouldn't be in this situation today.

[@ThePizzaGoblin]

Even I have been able to observe the change in climate from when I was young to now, and I'm only 20 something. How can the people who got us in this mess have been so blind and not notice the warning signs?

[@LarryCleveland]

Greed. The love of money is the root of all evil. We here in the USA have the most to do with this mess. China has only recently been a major contributor to co2 that the oceans are taking up. I was born into this greed and didn't see it until several years ago. Our comfort is causing suffering of millions in poor countries especially.

[@ChristianRunsNY]

Greed

[@rajatdogra96]

Because you dont raise your voices

[@belindacarter6872]

Dollar signs blind their eyes $$

[@spicyirwin5835]

Used to see butterflies all the time, all varisties🦋🦋🏞

[@rebeccacombs8781]

Strange times we're living in and I do believe things are going to get alot stranger...

[@Daniel-fl5oq]

If Germany can't deal this bad situation, No one could

[@germanevision]

Yes, this was usual in third world countries. Now it is shocking to hear about drought in half of US along with water scarcity.

[@reuireuiop0]

Do they ? Can't even get sufficient replacement sources of energy now Putin shuts off gas & coal. Let alone, take measures mitigate adverse climate effects. The time European nations were hi tech and strategically prepared, is at least 30 years behind us. They're a bunch of sleepwalkers been wallowing in easy economy growth after the fall of the Wall, and thought it'd all arrive just by itself.

[@landamalome2077]

Lol. I know right. If Germany is struggling, then the rest of humanity has no hope.

[@WeckoGecko]

Perhaps the Netherlands?

[@arbaz79]

Thank you DW for re-uploading this documentary.I missed watching it last time.Climate change is the real deal which needs to be addressed on emergency basis before its too late,after all we only have one planet to live on.

[@robsonf6683]

There is nothing that can be done because what you call climate change is caused by the Sun. The Sun is the primary driver of changes. Not 0.04% of a life giving gas known as CO2

[@Prototheria]

It's already too late. It's happening right now. Mitigation efforts need to be stepped up but at the same time, we need to start taking a hard look at how we're going to survive the impending changes we cannot stop.

[@constancetaylor2114]

Hushed, we have to face all these troubles and sometimes worse than this, but we can face this together with LOVE and helping each other

[@lichtloper]

In May 2022 I did the Harzer Hexen Stieg walk (i.e. in the German HarzRegion). I was and still am shocked by the sight of the vast majority of conifer trees there that simply snapped half way the trunks, or still standing upright but completely silvergrey in coulour because there were dry to the core. It made me so sad.

[@user-zy4wv7yx1z]

I recently visited the upper peninsula of Michigan, and I saw a sad similar sight. Many medium sized conifers were dead due to an invasive beetle/disease and many of the large beautiful white pine sre sick and dying. It was a camping trip, and while I did enjoy my time, I was also deeply saddened. Thos white pine are magnificent trees, towering above the canopy. Seeing their death and decline has stayed with me.

[@freeheeler09]

I’ve seen similar forest die offs while working and recreating in Montana, Colorado, Arizona and California! Between a third and half of the trees in Rocky Mountain National park have died.

[@m.j.golden4522]

That also happened in the VOSGES mountains where I lived. It took about two years for the trees to show the shock they had gone through .

[@juliegale3863]

Really well explained. So much of cities and towns have been made impermeable.

[@mariejosieprou7254]

Super documentation. Well planned, very informative, community oriented, good participation of the community members. All showed concerns and willingness to cooperate, using educated professionals. Good model for other communities. Excellent! Bravo!

[@62Cristoforo]

How odd. It’s almost as if the climate is changing

[@awakenthegreatnesswithin]

The Elite

[@jenasushawkins3089]

The weather wars are made from the chem trails that spread out and cover the skies with nano bot technology 💣 🌧💣 🌧💣✈ ✈ ✈ that are controlled with different frequencies to create the weather wars being deployed against all of us 💣🌧🏠🌧💣 🌧👨 🌧 👩 🌧💣 ✈✈ ✈ Vaporize the chem trails and nano bot technology with one part white vinegar and three to four parts water in a sonic dispenser that turns water into vapors and let it run outdoors 24/7 365 ❤ 🕯 ❤

[@CJ_222]

@@awakenthegreatnesswithin Its all a part of the New World Order

[@earlthepearl4161]

Geoengineering anyone?

[@bradleywinter5721]

Yes quite it's elementary my dear Watson

[@xrayfish2020]

Bloody hell! our future for us all - hello again from 40.3C record-breaking London, thanks for sharing DW.

[@simone222]

In these past couple of years, I noticed that my asthma has been worsening to the point of cyanosis. I blame the extreme heat and humidity we have been experiencing. Also, tornadoes are not common here, yet, though small ones, they have been happening quite frequently. My home country is the Philippines. Needless to say, typhoons are becoming more forceful as well. Anyway, your documentaries are most excellent. Kudos, DW Documentary. Take care and be safe, everybody.

[@MikeA15206]

Study's are showing that a lack of trees are also contributing to higher rates of asthma.

[@arnaldobellucci9033]

Maybe you are getting older too.

[@simone222]

@@arnaldobellucci9033 What a dense comment. Be a little sensitive esp. when dealing with others in real life.

[@Justdigit2]

You are getting older.... Pfffff

[@arnaldobellucci9033]

@@simone222 ok, we are not getting older, nobody is, sensitive enough?

[@community1949]

I live in Central Indiana and we usually have a lot of rain but not this summer - it is usually lush, green, and the plants and trees look beautiful but not this summer. Everything is a burnt, wilted mess and it's so frightening.

[@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073]

I live in Central Indiana as well, but not seeing what your talking about >Everything is a burnt, wilted mess everything that I've been seeing is green what part of Central Indiana are you I'm in poland Indiana.

[@climeaware4814]

google drought monitor. Third most devastating drought in two decades

[@stefangabor5985]

The Incas and Mayans of Mexico and Peru faced the same situation over 500 years ago. They build huge reservoirs to collect rainwater and prevent flooding. However, everything they tried didn't fix anything since those civilizations are long gone. And when you think about it, 500 years ago there were no problems with climate change. I believe these issues are cyclical and go much deeper than people realize.

[@obsidian....]

Being cyclical doesn't change what humans are doing. . This argument always fails to recognize that both are true and, while the opposite can happen, for the most part it doesn't. Climate deniers try to use that argument to dismiss humanity's role in it 99.99% of the time. While you'll find very few who try to say the opposite. . Also, 500 years ago they didn't understand the greater world. They were ignorant, we are not.

[@stefangabor5985]

@@obsidian.... I am certainly not a climate change denier. I'm just saying that more research is needed on the matter. And Egypt? 5000 years ago, Egypt was the pearl of the world; why their land has become a desert?

[@linmal2242]

Civilzations collapse; it has been studied so look it up.

[@stefangabor5985]

@@linmal2242 We are not talking about the disappearance of a civilization, but rather about some of the factors that cause a particular region to dry up. The collapse of a civilization is the consequence of the lack of resources, in particular water.

[@lrvogt1257]

There have always been natural changes in climate but today's is caused by industrial GHGs.

[@newtonlee7849]

Excellent documentary. Very informative. I've just recently started watching DW.

[@homijbhabha8860]

Floods are the most dangerous natural disasters for any country, it's very hard to stop and the damages are expensive to repair.

[@zoeydeu2261]

Sydney Australia is suffering through multiple floods this year 😢

[@honeybee3579]

While that is true, if a land is taken by fire and it's all burnt i don't think it's Any better than the damages of water ... In any case we don't wish any of these natural disasters to happen...

[@spicyirwin5835]

Firestorms then bring mudslides. Floods bring blk mold tho. Earth gave us life yet we hurt what feeds us!

[@earlthepearl4161]

Get that is why they have weaponized the weather huh? Plausible deniability,..because they can't control the weather can they? Operation popeye anyone?

[@albertafarmer8638]

We are living in the E N D times, the 7year Tribulation with the world leader (Antichrist, 666) is right around the corner, that's GOD'S judgement upon all unbelievers! But there is hope - get saved and be rapture ready: accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior today!!! Please study biblical end times prophecy; listen to Dr. Ron Rhodes on end times chronology. Blessings from Canada

[@TomNook.]

We are all witnessing the downfall of the human race from its peak, first hand. In a way, its a privilege

[@germanevision]

Yes. My father's generation was the last to live a full life span.

[@Cuisinenomade1]

I dont think the Earth is full of Humans, in fact, if there were, we wouldn't hear as often "there is a Humanitarian crisis...", or "that is inhumane...". I think there are many hominids that are more like beasts thirsty for control and money and fame but those are beasts not Humans. It is the fall of the beasts pretending to be Humans so Humans can flourish again on the land with technology and knowledge that the beasts cannot even imagine!

[@Anthonycapone8146]

The weather has always done crazy stuff since I was a little kid! We had snow so high when time they had to use construction equipment to move it out of the neighborhood, we've never had anything ever like that again. We went through a drought where we weren't allowed to run the garden hose, it's never happened again The weather has always been volatile the way it goes

[@kstayhigh420]

Those houses in that village were built really well.

[@marinlucic3843]

I wonder if they could introduce beavers to the habitat? Sounds like just the thing to tackle the problem.

[@chuckkottke]

That's an interesting thought. I would imagine before humans controlled everything, the beavers were there damming up the rivers and streams, creating retention ponds and repairing them quickly as soon as one was breached. Maybe we control nature too much, the natural world had mechanisms in place to handle floods quite well.

[@ihartsacto]

Yes they are probably hunted to extinction in that area like they have done around my ponds. The city just doesn’t like animals in their water I guess. I think your idea is fantastic and would help solve the problem.

[@kevinliu3075]

You are absolutely right! The nature will win

[@m.j.golden4522]

We have to hope so because if it's not nature it's garbage. We turn our mountains into garbage pails all for greed.

[@climeaware4814]

This is not nature. Humans are causing it with the waste product called carbon dioxide..a green house gas!

[@Seawithinyou]

Yes High pressure systems are holding low pressure systems longer below the equator too! And so there have been longer intense flooding in our country too! Getting more wetting Norwest winds from the Tropics. Our Nelson in New Zealand district got severely flooded recently. Fortunately our city Christchurch hasn’t been too bad as we are sheltered by these weather events with our Southern Alps and Port Hills 🙏🏼

[@Ifyoucanreadthisgooglebroke]

Funny to be able to check back on this sort of thing each couple years or so and think "Oh, it was so mild back then. They thought that passed for a historic flood/drought/heatwave?"

[@alidabotes5587]

Every country has its idiots! About 30 years ago, South Aftica built an enormous industrial park on flood plains & they suffer extreme damage at least every 3-5 years. The area us known as Prospecton. Thousands of new cars coming of the production line, are parked outside the factory & one can normally just see their roofs showing during floods. Empty containers are tossed around like match boxes. It is no better inside the factory & surrounding businesses. They built canals hoping that they could divert the floods into the ocean but although very large, they remain inadequate to stop the flooding. People & the CFO's of the numerous businesses built their are just plain stupid. Stupid is as stupid does & one gets angry at the high price of new motor vehicles! (But how else can they recoup these unnecessary & massive losses except from the stupid public!!)

[@TechnicalShivam-bh1hv]

Amazing Documentary DW❤❤❤. Very informative❤❤❤

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your positive feedback!

[@user-wy2iw5vy5u]

The high rise buildings may block the flow of pressure systems. The cities have heat retention in the buildings themselves. The rain would flow down the lower channels between hills and blockages of the cities.

[@b_uppy]

There is a lot wrong with city planning. They dehydrate the land, create the heat island effect, replace greenery with miles of hard surfaces, increase poverty and food insecurity as well as contribute to homelessness. *This is done paid planners do the exact same bad designs across the world, with little variation.* the more government does topnotch us, the more it creates artificial, deeply flawed systems that require more life support that also disenfranchises those at the fringes...

[@lulufulu4867]

It does look like there would have been a river there at some point.

[@hgvnl489]

This weather was here also in 1800, whats your point?

[@BCSTS]

Please research just a little....to find out that your remark is ignorant of the oh so many many destructive things we have done to our climate, soil, insects, water supplies, forests, food, farm animals....our arrogance (hint) keeps us ignorant of how we have & continue to destroy our resources including food & water.....this has snowballed to such an extent that human life as we know it is on a precipice ! This arrogance & selfishness is an important part of the problem!

[@Mk-vi5jz]

Take every ground breaking project for climate and it amounts to nothing, especially in the time frame that we have.

[@kinkle_Z]

I just read an article in the NYTs today that states that Europe is getting hotter and drier faster than even here where I live in the high desert of California. In fact, it looks like Europe is having to deal with crisis after crisis after crisis. My heart goes out to you.

[@waitandsee9345]

It's where the seat of the satan is 😌

[@OcctobersXO]

Fake news but ok whatever makes you Americans sound superior 🤣

[@linmal2242]

You and I in AUS are used to it; they are not in EUR !

[@ce9916]

The little musical segment that starts at 2:15 is beautiful

[@haribhaght1]

We live in a world that is round and if you look from space, nothing falls into it, and nothing falls out of it. So everything we have is in within.

[@MayThereBeWorldPeace]

This is all horrible. We need to act NOW to save our environment. I live near the Great Lakes in Canada. Will there be wars for this fresh water supplies? Scary.

[@stevepierce6467]

Wars, local violence, civil unrest etc. In my whole life following environmental issues (73 years), I have never felt so pessimistic.

[@jet4415]

Yeah, CA, AZ, etc want our water.

[@brendacharleston4593]

@@stevepierce6467 there is hope, that is jesus who died on the cross so that we could make, not only in this world but to heaven. Believe on him and repent, if you have not already

[@stevepierce6467]

@@brendacharleston4593 Sorry, faith in an imaginary deity has never before saved anyone from anything. I have lost hope precisely because a certain segment of our population believes in some next-world fantasy and feels therefore that they really have no responsibility for what is happening in this world. Otherwise, evangelicals would be clamoring for their legislators and business tleaders o start caring about our salvation here and now

[@climeaware4814]

Over a decade ago I told my canadain wife Water wars will be a BIG component of humanity in the future.

[@carl6131]

Some very clever thinking on the forest work.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

If one thing studying history has taught me, it's that extreme weather disasters have been happening since historians started keeping track of them. Claims that climate change is causing more, and larger, disasters ignores that there were much worse ones long before anyone cared about the climate.

[@abhishekprakash7897]

Yes because they weren’t around with cars and industrial factories. Climate change wasn’t a problem back then. You treat cancer when you have it not way before that. Before that you take precautions so that you don’t get cancer.

[@waitandsee9345]

Because there's no thing such internet and satellite or other means to distribute the news

[@nobodyspecial4702]

@@abhishekprakash7897 The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age both occurred before cars and industrial factories. Since climatologists can't explain either of them, why do people like you insist that they know enough to insist that climate today is in crisis? The planet has been warming for 12000 years and claims that it needs to be stopped are asinine. The only thing humans have done is speed up what was going to naturally occur. Nothing more, nothing less. Eventually the planet will arrive at it's tipping point and it will cool off again and then your descendants will be crying "oh noes, the planet is getting colder! We must find ways to increase the temperature or we'll all die!"

[@nothingpersonal7091]

Weather and climate are not exactly the same thing. Climate is a pattern of weather and temperature over a timespan of 30 years.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

@@mayatara1980 What you and every other climate crisis proponent all fail to understand is that the planet has been in a warming phase for 12000 years. Humans have done absolutely nothing that wasn't going to happen anyway, they simply sped the process up. The greenhouse gases trapped in the permafrost are going to be released, regardless of what humans do or don't do and those contain far more carbon than humans have released with fossil fuels. Guess, if you believe the planet is doomed if it warms, then it's doomed. If you have any understanding of science, then you know it's not.

[@irenesorina3934]

Thanks DW. Wonderfull documentary that everyone have to learn.

[@geoffreyharris5931]

So it goes. Expect more of this.

[@zelda2012333]

Why is the weather becoming more extreme? That is a stupid question? We all have the question and the answer. Due to industries, overpopulation, deforestation, destroying land-water and sky just to gain wealth and power. Politicians are also the culprits who destroy everything just for their selfish gains...

[@PG-3462]

We are all responsible for this. Nature is destroyed to produce all the cheap stuff we overconsume on a daily basis.

[@samuelnyiro2316]

Overpopulation?

[@kylebewley7790]

@@samuelnyiro2316 agreed. He’s talking nonsense there. Everything else I agree with though.

[@edwinbruckner4752]

Maybe stupid, but just a thought : but how are windturbines effecting the climate/local weather ? I imagine they take alot of energy out of sky/wind. Thus creating more local extremes. I one read about a small aircraft pilot who said that there was an incredible drop in wind speeds behind the windturbines. This has got to have effect on (local) weather. Basically i imagine you take away a part of the 'distribution' of the weather. So more local extremes like heat and rain, and tornados also have a bigger chance of developing if you get more local heat, all possible by taking out the wind. Is this ever been researched ?

[@PG-3462]

@@edwinbruckner4752 Wind turbines are way too small to have a major effect on wind, and even less on climate

[@poopootin3652]

New memory has Bennen etched

[@liefdeleven639]

That water isn't soaking into the ground due a dried up under soil is known. Aquifers/lower ground water is the issue. Swales where possible to increase, just as described in the video.

[@chuckkottke]

Hopefully with enough improved farming and forestry practices the downpours will be held and sponged up, thus retained for drought periods, and with better farming practices, compact bare soil will be a thing of the past.

[@johnwhite-q7s]

the future will not be boring

[@samlee8690]

The future is now.

[@germanevision]

Completely agree. We are living in exciting times.

[@ToddWright2]

Good documentary presented by excellent voice talent.

[@jabukatshwa]

In South Africa, we have lost +- 300 lives in KZN due to floods, It's sad in 2021 alone. 😭. Climate have changed

[@Noukz37]

For a more concrete explanation of the solution, search for swales and Permaculture in general. It's a regenerative form of agriculuture, which is very different from the current, industrial system that depletes the soil. Seems like DW doesn't like the "P" word.

[@osiasnocum9869]

City planning is good..but the Spiritual World of humanity MUST also be not forgotten..

[@bika4942]

How could human forget his creator.

[@CyberspacedLoner]

The villages of the river valleys needs to be relocated sooner or later

[@waitandsee9345]

It doesn't matter since there are other kinds of disaster like tornado, earthquake, volcano eruption etc. Even volcanoes can appear anywhere in the surface. 🙄

[@cookielapaz8927]

In California we had so much rain the dams and reservoirs were being emptied to accommodate more water. Even though we were completely drenched the government continued to say we were in a drought and started changing us an additional monthly fee that as much as just our water usage charge. Stored water last about 5 years. Alot of money to be made in a drought.

[@climeaware4814]

Was that the 2017 ElNio? Expect more of those flooding events in the future. Right now the "ENTIRE WEST COAST of North America, South Central South American and south America is in drought. SE Asia is going though flooding events unlike any time in history.

[@rioluna6058]

that was just one event , and it was because a hurricane (bonnie) cross over central american from the atlantic to the pacific this systems always go north, it was a full hurricane hundreds of miles parallel to thecoastline of mexico maybe that was why you got thatflooding event but i wont be counting on that every year . besides we are in "la niña cycle" that means the ocean near the equator gets more cold making more rain , "el niño cycle " is the opposite the pacific ocean gets more warm and thats even more intense droughts. so maybe this was a year of "breathing" to california but it all seems that is gonna continue in drought conditions in future years. you can search everything that i just said and see that im correct .. saludos galleta la paz

[@rioluna6058]

@@climeaware4814 wrong ... central america and northern south america we are having rain precipitation record breaking... but southern south america is havin a drought . .. we are in the second year of "la niña" cycle.

[@climeaware4814]

@@rioluna6058 no Third year in record LaNina "Global" drought. and yes, as long as global ocean temperatures increase, the boundary between drought and flooding on earth will increase.

[@rioluna6058]

@@climeaware4814 no we are in the second one and profesionals seem to think the next year would be the same.

[@lindagardner8106]

So crazy hope and pray this can even out

[@gillb9733]

Cloud seeding and tampering with weather systems invites disaster!

[@stevemchadd]

When the jet stream changes due to warming... The shape of things to come.

[@michelletodd814]

The jet stream has been hi jacked. Weather is entirely man made and controlled at this point. It has been getting hotter due to increased radiation from our ionosphere being heated up by HAARP.. We make our own clouds. And steer these storms using NEXRAD radar. Which happens to be totally overlapping all across the world.

[@martiansoon9092]

7% additional humidity in the per 1C warming means, when it rains there is more water vapor and energy to make things worse. Also jet streams have altered allowing more durable raining in one area. And the ground may have been damaged during heatwaves making it less soakable letting more water to the streams. Also lack of snow and ice packs in the mountains means they are not buffering the rains as they used to. There is less snow and more rain in warmed climate. We are losing Alphine glaciers. This allows more water to run down the hills in less time making flash floods even more likely. There is also elevated risk of mountain lake bursts, because thawing and melting have brought more water to them and their banks are loosening too. Even mountains can be disintegrate to mud slides, because they have been bound together with permafrost that is currently thawing rapidly. All these combined could lead to monsterous floods. And all of these have worsened because of climate warming. To make situation even worse we have paved huge areas with concrete/asphalt that blocks the water on the top. And our buildings are build in the areas where there have been flash floods in the history. It is likely to see these events more in the near future.

[@rosesummers5075]

When are you going to do a documentary on the weather modifications going on across the globe?

[@rattiyap3]

We grow plants and trees in UK Our local planning try very hard to close our business down .we bagging councilor and local politicians to help no one was interested I wish my story going global .

[@hatepinkyladies]

Our parliament members said, its good for tourism. Volunteer Tourism he said. Good for him, but not for those who suffered . Praying for my place didnt get flood this year. Last year was hectic and tiring.

[@ELEMENTJ21]

you must be from Malaysia i suppose?

[@bishwjitsarker868]

watching from Bangladesh

[@WeRHisPoem]

I'm so sorry. We are in a drought too. Oregon

[@crand20033]

I live in Durham North Carolina USA and we actually had small tornado. I have never seen a tornado here in the last 22 years of living here.

[@rioluna6058]

near the equator tornadoes are getting more frequent also i know this cause i live near the equator .

[@richardsimms251]

You may not get many of average voters and especially politicians American and Canadian to really believe in climate change until the sea has flooded the streets and washed away a lot more houses. Also, only until all the forests have burned away will it be accepted as science and a serious subject. RS. Canada

[@KittenBowl1]

Yes most conspiracy theorists are Americans and Chinese actually. Not Canadians however. Too little populations to matter actually. Americans and Chinese government are responsible for each of their evil doings on hurting earth. They should be shipped off to islands that are currently sinking due to raised sea levels to experience horror and misery locals are experiencing. Until then they don’t know.

[@spicyirwin5835]

Some cities will be under the sea. Dont think I'll be alive to see that. Want to see trump in prison before I go home. I lost 11 loved ones to covid. They dont have to see Yosemite on fire or mass shooting or Putins evilness tho. Mourning is hell. Feel selfish to miss them when they r in Paradise. God evicted me from heaven.

[@seventail]

I think you overestimated them, even if the world is flooded with not a tree in sight, all they care about is their bank account

[@lrvogt1257]

It doesn't help that conservative climate deniers lie to the public that there is no problem.

[@gamingtonight1526]

I barely watch these types of video's any more. What's the point, it doesn't change anyone's mind, meaning we are done for.

[@ericenvironmentalist9429]

Better to do what we can, learn from our mistakes, than to give up before we even try.

[@magesalmanac6424]

Agreed, giving up is the worst thing we could do right now.

[@JongJande]

But where is an analysis why all this is happening. Where does it come from? Nibiru? Changed sun activity? Chemtrails? And no: it is not CO2 which is a hoax with only 0,035 % CO2 in air.

[@JongJande]

Heard nothing what caused changed weather conditions. Niburu? Sun activity? Geo engineering? Chemtrails?

[@4ppl3Tr335]

Austrians cut all virgin woods from Romania ignoring that those forests kept Europe's climate in some balance. Now get the effects.

[@southernbreeze3278]

"Whereas weather systems were relatively moderate and predictable in recent centuries..." what an absolute load of horsesh_t

[@samanthabotheju9284]

No rain.... Human has to responsible for this. All around the world all sort of problems.

[@brendacharleston4593]

Yes our sin towards God. We reap what we sowed. Yes human is the cause. Everybody

[@anniecameron6794]

It's exciting you must admit

[@tmoore007]

You ask what will the future bring....it will bring chaos and along with fear. Hardtimes and struggles beyond your imagination. It will bring a new meaning to the words to be ALIVE and SURVIVAL. Follow your heart and stay in the light. Things just got out of hand!

[@mariuszwoo2724]

where are subtt?.

[@TK3C]

Subtitles are available on videos on the DW channel, but on Live that is not supported.

[@thoughtsurferzone5012]

That carbon footprint is about to kick us in the ass.

[@b_uppy]

Easily addressed, but big business wants to use high tech to enrich themselves when low tech climate cooling techniques could be put to better use.

[@myroom4640]

People love to mock the bible BUT, all of this is biblical prophecy!!!!! Wars, famines, nation shall rise against nation, pestilences, earthquakes etc and so forth!! JESUS describes as birth pains, increasing in frequency, until the return of our LORD AND SAVIOUR……………. The tribulation will be like NO other time in the whole entire history of the world / it will affect all of humanity …….

[@germanevision]

Most religions have talked about 'time Out' for human race and the magnitude of tragedy. But I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. That's very unnerving.

[@robertsteele474]

People love to mock Nostradamus BUT, all of this is Nostradamus prophecy!!!!!

[@myroom4640]

@@robertsteele474 The only difference is: Nostradamus was wrong on a lot of his predictions. Biblical prophecy is one hundred per cent correct ……

[@myroom4640]

@Irving Shekelstein YES dear Brother or sister in CHRIST, GODS wrath will soon enough be poured out, on an unrepentant world ……

[@brendacharleston4593]

🎉🎆🎊🎊🏰🎇🎶🙆‍♀️🙆‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️👏👏👏🔥🔥📢📢

[@exbritishforcespatriotscha7723]

Why is the MSM in European countries not showing these news reports..

[@koosvanpetten5567]

Why don't you build the fields like the rice-fields, horizontal. That will keep the water much better.

[@hootaneskandari7020]

I live in Iran and water flooding happen here very dangerous this days And Iran even not a very rainy country and this mean our beloved world 🌍 changing fast and unbelievable

[@climeaware4814]

hootan, Iran is what, 30-36 latitude? your country is located in the convergent walls of Hadley cells. All countries that are on the 30th to 36th latitude are hadley cell convergence zones so are thus deserts.

[@m.j.golden4522]

Look Deep into Nature and you will Understand Everything Better - Albert Einstein

[@germanevision]

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man Of moral evil and of good Than all sages can. -- W Wordsworth

[@girl.whoshines]

It's not the nature it's us who are in danger.

[@pocalypto]

Are they using pumps anywhere . . . I drop a go all the way to the ocean

[@brianwheeldon4643]

An interesting piece of work, which starts to investigate the Climate and Environmental crisis we've been measurably and demonstrably in for at least 40 years. There is a reticence of the meteorologists to discuss the increasing heat content going into the storms. Increasing frequency is mentioned but not the increasing energy content. As James Hansen and others have already said 'scientific reticence' is a problem. The current climate chaos is empirical evidence of that. What happens when the global average temperature reaches 2.5 deg Centigrade above preindustrial? No contemplation of that whatsoever. And the probability of that can reasonably stated as high. Such a global average would mean temperatures over land reaching between at least 7 to 10 degrees Centigrade higher on a more frequent basis. Higher temperatures mean increased intensity and energy. Increased destruction. As time passes and almost nothing is being done to mitigate climate heating, we have an increasing risk of societal and civilisation collapse. No question. Scientific reticence, and corporate government are complicit and criminal bedfellows. Fridays for Future, Last Generation, Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion are right. It looks as though only complete economic and political system change will save life on earth.

[@irenesorina3934]

How about wind drones, it might help stabilize and break temperature concentrated on 1 area.

[@lavinialaabishgrimberg3603]

Talking about cognitive dissonance but not addressing the fact that the animal "agriculture" industry is doing the worse harm to the planet and the environment. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@ihartsacto]

Most people are determined to eat as many animals as they can and be damned the effect it has on them or the earth. The rest of us have to suffer along while they deny reality-animals scream in pain when they are killed for food and their cultivation is creating pollution.

[@dimensionexo.]

The end times appear to be upon us : I call upon the spirits of the wind : Sing sing your song in these troubled times - Thank you *

[@christopherspence6459]

why wasn't the debris trap cleared?

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Crazy weather! Drought floods....

[@ericolens3]

22:58 Stationary Waves. The stationary high pressure has longer term of higher temps and droughts The stationary lows have longer spells of rains being dropped on single area. This hypothesis is being investigated.

[@silverdamsen2680]

It is going to get worse unless immediate large scale action is taken.

[@stevepierce6467]

What do you suggest?

[@silverdamsen2680]

@@stevepierce6467 interesting question. I think it is probably too late but still having all wealthy countries encourage their population to stop having children and change the culture away from conspicuous consumption and fossil fuel would be the best way if we didn't want to have a massive population crash via d*ath rather than just people NOT having children. So, it is multiple issues. How and what is consumed has to change the world over and there also need to be fewer people. I think the 1% could be trying to crash the population the worst way possible and since other action isn't being taken, those that surivive will see if I'm correct sooner probably rather than later.

[@garrithgill6692]

NGL that's how I expect my weather forecast to be taken.

[@SuperTonyony]

In the near future, humans will go extinct, and the rest of Earth's species can begin to recover. This makes me smile.

[@dubistverrueckt]

If only... sadly, not soon enough to prevent mass dyings of animals and plants. Even hares and rabbits are becoming extinct.

[@sealyoness]

The world's balance is off. Human tampering only exasperates it. Not to say that droughts and floods, earthquakes and other phenomena wouldn't happen anyway, and although some may disagree, necessary. But which should we be, trying to mitigate the long term effects at very least, or part of blindly unbalancing the world further?

[@brandy2378]

I don't even know how to say this without fear of sounding dumb but I am starting to believe the Amish had it right when they decided to reject electric, gas, or power in general. I always thought they were weird for being this way but it turns out that these things are literally bringing about the end of us all so maybe the Amish just got it right. Whod a thought

[@nenmaster5218]

WELL-Rounded Climate-Coverage: UpisNotJump, Hbomberguy, OCC, Climate-Town, Second Thought, they should if combined give you a well-rounded Look. Unlike Kurzgesagt, these peope nto high on 'Hopium' but also NOT Gloomy. Always remember: Climate-Anxiety is a VALID Feeling and not your fault, so what youve gotta do now, whetever you feel it or not, is to watch something constrctuive like the Channel i listed.

[@kirstyclarke2599]

I’m only here because of striking for school and they told us to watch this documentary for geography

[@ray-vanralte]

Not to be ungrateful but I’ve watched this like months ago. Is this reupload?

[@anglosaxonmike8325]

These factors-the cooling Pacific, the yet-to-cool Atlantic, and the historical reduction in recent solar activity-suggest that a staggered cooling period could continue. Absent from most headlines about global warming is a discussion of measures suggesting that the warming has ceased and a cooling may have begun. For example, deep-ocean heat content has not increased during the past five years. Looking at just one year, from January 2007 to January 2008, we find that satellite-derived atmospheric temperatures indicate that Earth was about one degree Fahrenheit cooler at the beginning of 2008 than it was at the beginning of 2007. The United Kingdom’s Hadley Centre ocean and land temperature records show cooling in the last seven to ten years.

[@stevepierce6467]

This would certainly save us from ourselves for a few years if true.

[@mrcuttime22]

Ausgezeichnet geschicte und ganz leider! I had two questions from this: Is the JETSTREAM perhaps much slower now such that extreme heat and rain events are loitering? And couldn't simply perforating the forests help them absorb more heavy rain (tedious as that would be)?

[@b_uppy]

Refurbishing cities and building carbon rich topsoil via farming and ranching would do a lot more, along with rainwater harvesting. Walter Jehne did a great video on how to approach climate change through merely climate cooling... ...

[@linmal2242]

@@b_uppy Spot on !

[@Argrouk]

Absolute nonsense. Did any of you stop for a second and consider how these valleys were made? Ice, snow and water. Don't concrete over a catchment area and expect to stay dry.

[@BCSTS]

Allen....what is nonsense is to not see the bigger picture of this! Happening all over the world constantly increasing...& other similar catastrophes as well...we need to wake up, do research into positive, creative ways to mend what we have been happily destroying for so many years...our lives, & our children, grandchildren's lives are at stake.... Be part of solution, not part of problem...be truly informed.

[@Argrouk]

@@BCSTS This is where you lose any semblance of rationality. "Constantly increasing"? Where is your data for that? Mend? It used to be halt, now it's mend. Do you have the faintest notion of how potentially dangerous trying to "mend" the climate would be? You are the problem. You're not informed, you're a panicking parrot, repeating the more and more hysterical lies they throw at you. Stop falling for the emotional threat to your children, do you think they care? If they did, would we have wars every year? The only solution is for you to keep emptying your pockets into theirs, and it's working quite nicely.