Why flooding in europe

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Floods PDF. This website has limited functionality with javascript off. Please make sure javascript is enabled in your browser. Topics: Water and marine environment. They want to see a combination of technical protection, including dykes and drainage, as well as ecological protection, such as meadows, forests and marshes. You can find out more about how they want to protect Germany from flooding, here and read more about recent floods in here. As part of the Green Screen project, which engages citizens in contemporary issues through films and debates, we explored how the recovery could lead us to more fair and just societies where everyone has equality of opportunity.

This month, we featured the film 'When Tomatoes Met Wagner' and held a debate on the agricultural sector and food. As the Greens, we are working towards creating socially just societies within our ecological boundaries. Heavy rains cause flooding across central Europe.

The scientists found a large amount of variability from year to year in these very local rainfall patterns, so to evaluate the influence of climate change, the scientists looked at data from a wider region. They analysed how likely it is that similar extreme rainfall could occur anywhere across a larger area of Western Europe, including eastern France, western Germany, eastern Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and northern Switzerland, and how this has been affected by increasing global temperatures.

Climate change also made heavy rainfall events similar to those that triggered the floods more likely to happen by a factor of between 1. Similar events can be expected to hit any particular area of Western Europe about once in years in the current climate, meaning several such events are likely across the wider region over that timeframe. With further greenhouse gas emissions and continued temperature increases such heavy rainfall will become more common. This event starkly shows how societies are not resilient to current weather extremes.

More than studies have examined whether climate change made particular weather events more likely. It also recently found that the loss of the French grape harvest following a frost was made more likely by climate change.

Skip to main content. Climate change made floods in Western Europe more likely.