Record drought poses serious threat to Europe's environment and critical infrastructure | DW News
Around much of the Northern Hemisphere, from Hungary to Hawaii, from the drying Rhine River to the now-recovering Rio Grande, or from Casablanca to California, summer droughts and high temperatures are having a serious impact on everything from agriculture to the freight industry.
A summer of record-breaking heat is drying up rivers across Europe. Around half the continent is facing an unprecedented drought. Shipping companies in Germany are preparing for the worst as the River Rhine drops to critical levels. Authorities say many vessels will be unable to navigate the key shipping route if the water drops much lower. Scientists warn climate change is leading to even more frequent periods of extreme heat and drought.
Nearly 660,000 hectares of European land have already been destroyed by fires this year, according to EU data. The scale of the destruction this year would be the worst since records began in 2006. If 2022 follows a similar trajectory as 2017, Europe is on course to see more than a million hectares of land destroyed. In 2017, it reached 988,087.
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No matter which way you try to spin it, reality has a way of asserting itself in the end.
@dan rodrigues Denial is the 1st psychological reaction to a problem people don't want to take action dealing with. It only means that your brain is normal then again in the end "one cannot negotiate with reality" and needs to act or bury his head in the sand. How come you deniers suddenly grew to believe in the scientific data about Earth cycles, I thought to you scientists are the "bad guys" here?! 😁
@dan rodrigues be it earth cycles or human made, it do not change the facts. Thre s a whole infrastrucre built around the past assumptons which are now all wrong. What do we do about that is the question....
Stop with your lies, Dan. Even Exxon admits that burning of fossil fuels is causing our current climate crisis. Stop your lies
@dan rodrigues it doesn’t matter. It’s happening. You needing to be right does not matter.
"Reality? What's that?", Donald J Trump.
One day, in my lifetime, a news anchor is going to ask, “and what can be done about this?”, and the expert will truthfully say, “There is nothing to be done. We waited too long.”
So true, all over the planet the experts are silent, even while people die from SADS and myocarditis.
Too long for what? You doomers are hilarious.
Time will come where you have to decide whether to flush your toilet or take a shower or brush your teeth but you can't do all of them because water will be restricted.
@@thegreataynrand7210 to act
It is increasingly likely that such a day is already past but nobody is ready to acknowledge it... Climate change is now on autopilot and we are past catching up.
The other problem is that when the summer is very dry, the soil becomes hard and compacted, and water has a much harder time penetrating the soil and runs off more. If there is heavy rain in the coming months, there will be flooding and mudslides instead of restoring water tables... A warmer climate also means more storms. We need to plant many more trees and remove asphalt where we can. Trees protect against both drought and floods. Especially deciduous trees.
"WHAT CAN WE DO", the Reporter asks, but she just doesnt know as much about this as Hbomberguy, Climate-Town, Our Changing Climate, Some More News, UpisNotJump, Second Thought, and Simon Clark. ALL who agree that GLOOM HELPS NO ONE and almost-all who List things that normal People can do. Drughts and Water-Running-Out and HOW TO FIX IT were also covered by Some More News and Second Thought, who also-alsoooo happen to be much-praised for their Worker-Right Coverage...
I'd say quite the opposite although depends on what soil types of course or if it's been driven or walked over, soil that dries out also become hydrophobic and doesn't absorb water so rain kinda falls through the first layers and just runs to the point of least resistance and you can get a slush resulting in mudslides. And indeed trees are a must, tree shades soil and lower growths, trees and lower bushes retain water in the soil and hold it together, trees also seed clouds and rain, and they capture carbon and they act as big cooling fins, hot wind that goes into a forest comes out cool. And they attract life and become a spawning ground for it. Good quality forests with all layers intact are essential and there's few of those left.
@@koyaanisqatsi78 Have we ALL seen the China-Coverage and Ukraine-Coverage of "Some More News" here on KZhead?
We had a major wildfire in our area last year, and a few fairly mild rainstorms this year. The resulting runoff has been extremely damaging to our roads. Contrast that from nine years ago when we had three days of continuous rain that also caused major flooding, but the aftermath was very mild as the forest was intact.
YES SIR YOU FOUND THE GOLDEN THAT ALL THE SMART PEOPLE ARE IGNORING THE IS TOO MUCH PAVEMENT AND WHEN IT RAINS THE WATERIS DIRECTED INTO SEWER LINES THAT TAKES THE WATER TO THE SEA .SEA LEVELS RISE AND ON THE LAND THE GROUND GETS DRIER ANDLESS PERMEABLE TO RAINWATER. JUST COMMON SENSE. BIG CITIES MUST BE REDUCED AND LAND REHABILITATED.
One of the things I appreciate about some DW reportage is allowing speakers to make a point and then expand on it, or explain it to viewers. We can get soundbites anywhere, but more more in-depth answers are generally rare in news.
Jablicka you need to check out many university websites and physics, and climate scientists and earth system scientists giving talks and lectures. The problem is entirely due to corporate - government corruption and the style of economic extractive operation around the planet driven largely by the USA, UK and EU in the first instance and continuing to this day.
She didn't say anything profound
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@@SeattleMartin I don't think that the origin of this phenomenon in the US is the desire to spread fear. It's the result of a history of competition. The culture of US news developed that way because news agencies always had to fight for attention, to be recognizable, to be the loudest. Thus they've developed to perform like market barkers. It's more about entertainment and attention than about information. DW is publicly funded. Many news outlets in Europe are.
@@SeattleMartin I mostly agree. Fear is used as a tool. But I don't think that it's about spending money. It's about spending time. When you're afraid, you will spend more time watching to find out what's going on. The more time you spend watching their stuff the more expensive they can sell their adds. They just act in their own self interest and don't follow some hidden agenda that causes this. Have a nice week as well. Going to bed across the pond ;)
Droughts in progress all over the world, and we can’t seem to cooperate yet, god help our children and their children.
It’s not bout our children and grandchildren. The pillars holding up our globalized industrial civilization are under extreme pressure. The current global order likely has 10-15 years before climate change completely dislocates our way of life.
I hope our children will be better then us, but this hope did not seem to work for our generation.
God left this place a long time ago
Actually it's only in NATO countries... where Americans sell them their oil that cause toxicology with airborne water. donthe science people.
@MusicMaster1987 Who was that?
Destroying the Earth has consequences! Who could have guessed?
yep
Government is the cause not the solution. Tax is theft.
@dan rodrigues education is something that humankind is seriously lacking, as well as intelligence and free will.
@dan rodrigues it's called physics, we live in a closed environment called planet earth. You want a proof? Do an experiment, put your head inside a plastic bag, seal it and breath in it for 10 minutes. Then let us know what happens every minute in it. Temperature, smell, air quality.
@dan rodrigues please locate a library and read books.
We warned about it 33 years ago…..We warned about it…..
@D K its worse….we are heading towards 10 billion humans within 27. years…..
No way we will make it to that and thank my god.
@@serahkonner Sadly, it is unavoidable. Simple mathematics
Gosh, if only someone had predicted that climate change would drive dire weather effects.
it has been predict by the scientist but no one listen to them. Now this happen.
@@annesitsgirls7566 Scientists have been wrong in predictions thought history
@@annesitsgirls7566 Al Gore the '90s he put it all out there and a big companies fought him left and right try to make him look like a fool in his scientists that he followed doesn't matter he was right the scientists are right they're still right and now it's in our face and now the mega corporations and oil companies that didn't want to listen have no choice but to follow through if they want to survive they better come up with new Innovations and a lot of them have and they're seeing that it doesn't take two lifetimes to turn things around it can't happen overnight but it can't happen and their scientist along with the scientists that have been talking all along are now working together oil companies have no choice but to hurry up and catch up and they are and so are the automotive companies Ford and Chevrolet are coming out with some great ideas it might be bugs in them but they're working on it and the fear of less oil in lives have got to be stopped stop being afraid there are new and different ways better Ways to Live cleaner healthier nobody said it was going to be overnight but we should have started 40 years ago but Money Talks well now a clean cup of water on very thirsty countries is worth more then
Not one prediction has come true. Not one. We had only 12 years left 20 years ago remember? You are being lied to.
@@smalltownhomesteadAC Fact Check! LOL Actually 100% of "con speariacy tea or wrists" came true.
Imagine you have to build a power plant next to a river to fight global warming, but you can`t transport the massive equipment it requires or make it operational because the river is no longer there due to climate change.
sounds like something the boomers would do.
Then you truck the equipment in. And cause even more climate change.
When I was working in the energy sector in 2004, we also had 2 hot years and we already learned to build our power stations on the shores of large lakes and the sea, not rivers. Rivers get too warm too easily. They have had two decades to prepare.
The RISKS of climate change need to be assessed for every country. What supply chains are impacted by interruption of flow on the Rhine? What happens to aquifers recharged by Rhine flows? Does it impact agriculture and good supplies? Does it impact drinking water sources?
@@rogerwilco2 I hope they prepared, but I doubt we are prepared for this.
We need more bogs and marshes! Swamps..... And forests. Alle the water during rain is just going down... We need to keep it.
Put some Piranha in the Rhine, it wont help but I like the idea somehow.
Agreed, This is the consequences of erasing nature.
If is doesn't rain, you can't have those things. Germany needs to stop using coal and natural gas as its power source as well as try and protect those areas. Turn the nuclear reactors back on ASAP! This is madness.
@@bl5752 Nuclear power stations also cannot operate if there's no water in the river for cooling.
@@bl5752 Everybody needs to shift to clean energy, everybody, including the big emitters like China and USA.
Just last summer Germany was being devastated by historic floods! Now historic drought.
It’s pretty simple. A warming planet causes worse extremes: … Warmer air & water => (leading to) more humidity, heavier rain, and heavier floods. Hotter air & topsoil => more heatwaves, more evaporation, more drought, and more wildfires. Hotter Arctic => less ice, less albedo, much less ice. That's the way it works. It is simple physics. The evidence is everywhere. Expect more of the same, only worse.
Times are changing
*Exactly the same as in China*
Somehow we are still lucky here in Philippines cause its always raining,.., i realize how important the rain and storm is.. it prevents drout and wild fire
It depends on your particular situation. Some areas of the globe are forecast to get more precipitation as the planet heats, while others are forecast to get less, or to get it in the form of rain instead of snow. Mixing up weather systems can have all sorts of effects.
It's spelt drought
Ah, the spelling police are on the job!
Well u hv the yearly Typhoon, then Volcanic activities... earth quake / Volcano ash..
too much water can also be very damaging.
Terrible natural disasters are threatening the lives of all of us. Drought. floods, tornadoes, hail. I have witnessed flash floods sweeping away people in China. it's so tragic
Simple solution, migrate in Russia next decade.
Wish something would flush Vladimir Putin out to sea...
Forecasts for next 30 years are far beyond shocking.
Yeah!!! Samantha is too hot🔥
Scorch earth.......the 40% of earth area will become desert wasteland similar to fallout!!...games!!
Especially since it's likely that humans will be extinct within twenty five years. Possibly much sooner.
Better start living underground - as long as you're about 20-30 feet above any 1000 year flood zone!
@@kimweaver1252 your guess is as good as mine..bro excellent prediction.....soon the looting and chaos will come together in unison lets embrace chaos and oblivion and accept the mother earth punishment without any regrets and self pity!!!.....
Germany is the second largest consumer of bottled water in the EU, ( roughly 160 litres per person each year ) mostly due to it's consumption of carbonated water. Imagine the MASSIVE energy costs of that !!! transporting and cooling it, then collecting and recycling the bottles, it must be immense.
Not to mention the CO2 that has to be produced for it; presumably it is piped in not created in bottle ?
Yes, hypocrisy is the clearest definition of human species. It's because competition is the SOLE purpose of Life.
And the pollution and usage of water involved in making the plastic bottles to begin with
We need to grow forests rapidly.
Grow hemp
- I live in this region - the forest trees are also dying off due to lack of ground water and warmer winters.
@@isaacpina3955 both need water, so...Irrigation at least for the first few years
I mean if we could stop burning down tens of thousands of acres of rainforest every day that would be a good start
Problem is that only "adult" trees are CO2 negative. It takes many years for a tree to reach that age, we dont got the time.
As much as this saddens me, I'm actually glad it's happening. I know how that sounds, yes. BUT - as long as more developed countries don't see and feel the results of their actions and generally climate change, there won't be any other changes towards a more sustainable way of living. It is sad that we had to come this far to realize our negative impact on this planet but better late than never I guess. People and goverments need several wake up calls and if that's what is needed for change, then so be it.
Always blaming the people, like Greta.
Yes. A lot of rich white people need to take ongoing hits for decades to get the point across.
Going electric is also not the answer. cost more in resources to build wind farms and solar farms not to mention tesla batteries.
In nature most seeds will never grow into a big tree! Thereformost people have to die out under the harsh conditions coming, step by step.
@@COYO-T reducing consumerism should be first step
Humanity was warned long ago about this catastrophe
And the political leaders around the world are planning for carbon neutrality by 2050. About 40 yrs too late. I personally believe we have past the tipping point and it is now too late.
People don't care
@@JT-xj1pg your right most people don't give a f k, you only have to see how they live, huge cars, no recycling using single use items like there's no tomorrow.
@@gee3883 climate denial ,lovers of cars,
@@pool2587 Not 100% sure what your comment is trying to say? If it's about me , yes I do like cars, they're very useful. The car in my avatar is my restored ( you could say recycled ) 1976 VW beetle, it has restored/recycled parts from other old scrap cars inc seats/suspension from a 1989 porsche, engine from a 2003 subaru and a gearbox from a 1997 porsche 911 and even Rover parts. it's currently for sale to make way for an electric car.
DW really hosts the best interviews - always in touch with the experts and with people on the scene. Top-notch reporting.
Buy Hydrogen stocks now or get left with empty pockets.
I get annoyed when DW has their reporter on the dried up river bed of the Rhine doing a great job of presenting the problem, then the anchor host asks her "What do you think caused this?" She has little to no expertise to answer that question in detail, so she immediately goes to "climate change". Stop asking questions that people cannot answer, because they get embarrassed and say almost anything. When DW changed to the experts, it got so much better. Those are the ones to ask the hard questions.
I hate anchor persons that have to show off their knowledge and leave almost nothing for the reporters to say. This is a great channel.
@@captspiff6922 I agree, not a well-targeted question there. I think the reporter on the scene was forced into a spot to try and answer it.
in touch with the experts🤡🤥😈🙃🐍🤣
Due to the changes in the weather paterns we might also get extreme winters on top of extreme heat and torential rains instead of mild steady rains the whole year round.
For the northern hemisphere mid latitudes sure. Its polar Jet Stream is going Mister Wonkypants.
I live in Central Texas. February 2021 was the coldest on record. You may have heard about it. The electric grid was down for days. About 700 people dead. The strange thing is that December of the same year was the warmest on record. And many of my neighbors are climate change deniers. 🙄
@@simplethings3730 If you power your homes with nuclear or coal you have no problems. The wind systems and solar are useless during winter.
@@percreig Dont let anyone tell you you as a Person cant do Anything.
@@simplethings3730 your neighbors are climate change deniers because they're very ignorant. If only They would take a class and basic atmospheric physics which basically does it use any math but just Theory would they fully understand what exactly is occurring and what is happening. Let me tell you from my research that as the Arctic is warming up at 2 to 3 times faster than the rest of the planet that the temperature difference between the Arctic and the equator is becoming wider over time. The temperature difference between these latitudes is what drives the jet stream. Atmospheric air circulation occurs between the Arctic and the equator. Do you ever notice that in most days that you might have when that is constantly flowing? When I was stationed in Texas in the '80s I certainly noticed that and it was very different than my experience living in Washington State. Anyway as the temperature between the Arctic and the equator continues to spread apart it's causing the jet stream to slow down. It's causing the walls of the jet stream to become very weak. It's causing the rosby waves to be stretched further north and further south than historical normal patterns. The polar vortex was pushed out of orbit by a rosby wave on the opposite side of Earth that pushed a warm front North into the Arctic. IT displaced the polar vortex and it started flowing South through Alberta. It pushed into the United States and then it pushed all the way to the southern tip of Texas. Some scientists like Dr Catherine h a y h o e calls this global weirding. Scientists have never seen this before but it's been getting worse over the last 20 years. The other consequence slowing jet stream is low and high pressure fronts trap the jet stream in a very irregular shape that is not normal! June 30th of 2021 Washington and British Columbia experienced a Omega heat wrap heat stop. It caused the entire jet stream to buckle and turn into the shape of an Omega sign. This caused the temperatures of our state to absolutely Skyrocket to 108°. Portland reached 117° and British Columbia reached 108°. This killed a billion selfish in the Puget Sound. It killed 1,450 people between these three major cities. It caused our roads to buckle and it caused the melting of 1/3 of all the ice and snow off of Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier is a 14,000 ft Mountain. The enormous amount of water melt off destroyed many bridges going down the side of Mount Rainier. It was pretty historic to say the least. And it's only going to get worse across planet Earth. I was watching from a satellite as India started to overheat from another Heatwave. I blew my mind away when the temperatures reached 50° Celsius and I've been monitoring the temperature of planet Earth for probably 8 years now. Every country every land surface across planet Earth the temperature is going up and it's all due to carbon dioxide emissions and deforestation. Deforestation prevents the absorption of carbon dioxide.
can use coconut fibre layer blanket over the dike banks to help protect against soil erosion by wind for this crucial period. We use it in Singapore during construction periods to prevent excessive soil erosion. The blankets can be reused the following year.
Thats right. Its possible to make many kind of improvements. The is no lack of good ideas. In Denmark we have extra coast erosion because of more wind and the sea expand because of the warmer water. But we have plus too. Today 50% of the electricity is covered ny windpower. We are building many more of those turbines. One reason is to hjave electricity for the too many cars. Very good You can reuse coconut fibers. Do You plant mangrove in Your country?
The length of dikes in a country like the Netherlands or Germany is a lot more than in Singapore.
Losing wetlands can be a problem in every and any part of the world.
For humans.....lol
That's what they said about Australia a decade ago ... "The dams will never fill again". Now they have record rain.
@Robert - Shhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! They're trying to pull off another scam
In my neck of the woods, Manitoba Canada, last year was very similar to the current conditions in Europe, however this year it is a record setting opposite in terms of rain fall. There must be balance in nature but nowadays it seems like it's just more severe.
It's the tide retreating before the big wave lmao.
Are climate criminals committing ecocide? The Int Criminal Court is being called on to prosecute them . Ref Stop Ecocide International
The hotter it gets, the more water evaporates, that water has to come down somewhere. While some places will have more drought, other places will have worse downpours.
Lobbyists who decieve for profit ( for example Bjorn lomborg ) should face financial consequences or jail
Jordan Peterson and Patrick Moore are on that list
I love it when he ask her " What can be done?" Ahhhh? As if she has the ability to make it rain.
lol
Well you can pray at least. Ah yes but it’s hard when you’re an atheist.
@@RBMK--vj2rn No amount of prayer is going to fix this problem. The dye has been cast from centuries of not living in tune with nature, and not listening to those who knew what would happen.
@@alntr2872 🤣🤣🤣
@@mtlicq You're laughing now, just wait, just give it time, you'll be crying, that's guaranteed. This ship can not be righted.
It is mind blowing that 47% of the world can be affected by this drought especially when the earth is 70% water 30% Land. It tells you the earth has changed and it’s going into the next phase of existence just like history has show us from the beginning of time.
Because it's mostly freshwater droughts. It's not just climate change though it is a big factor, still we also have to consider that corporations and population growth drain tons water.
@@bishop51807 The problem is NOT how we power things within perpetual growth capitalism in complete defiance of immutable physics on a finite world, The problem is NOT how we move around within perpetual growth capitalism in complete defiance of immutable physics on a finite world, The problem IS perpetual growth capitalism, which as a system, must always be in defiance of the immutable physics of a finite world and no technology nor regulations will ever make it compatible without its collapse being the result. It must grow or it dies, yet if it continues to grow, everything dies. It is a system that demands perpetual growth of consumption of energy and materials and of consumers to soak up tomorrows production the capitalist minority invests in today. It goes, and soon, or humanity does a little later, there is no middle ground on what physics dictates for a viable future.
@@Nine-Signs So are you saying socialism or communism is the answer?
4:55 (ish) - for those of us not on the metric -- 660,249 hectares = 1,631,511 acres or 2549 sq miles (rounded).
It ain't just the main rivers, which are used as thuroughfares for trade and commerce, it's the underlying water table that needs real paying attention to! Aquafers drying out and resovoirs getting low, Europe is heading for a Water Shortage it has'nt experienced ever.
The Problems with Water and WHAT TO DO (no Gloom!) was covered and explained by Cody Johnston.
you got a point. in my province here in the Philippines, we are using deep wells to collect water, and just before the rain season we have problems with the supply of water coming out from below those wells. we are probably not seeing the main problem yet but i believe its the reserves of water underneath the mountains, valleys etc are the ones that are majorly affected. we need some studies of what is happening underneath
Summers in Indiana are becoming intolerable. 20yrs ago we’d have maybe 2 weeks of 90+ degree days now it’s around month and a half to 2 months straight. We have high humidity so the heat index is usually around 110+. It’s so hot & humid it’s difficult to breathe and it only takes about 10 minutes being outside before you’re completely soaked in sweat + getting wet with a hose or shower doesn’t cool you off because the humidity is so high. I’ve been to Las Vegas in the summer when it’s 110 degrees but it’s dry heat and nowhere near as bad as 90 with high humidity because you can easily cool off with water and it’s not hard to breathe which drastically raises the level of being uncomfortable.
I'm in Illinois and it's become as miserable as Florida. I heading north if possible.
Good weather for the summer holidays. Ideal.
Quick everyone stop using plastic straws and buy a 60k electric SUV before it's too late!
Australia had to build desalination plants for potable water. The most contested conflicts are Water Wars, who owns it, who gets to use it. Unfortunately privatisation has ruined the ability of governments to reform water supply fairly.
Unfortunately governments are formed of ignorant and corrupt people.
The guest professor from delft is really interesting. In the end part of the dialogue, he answers the question from host just like in the Q&A part in the final part of an academic speech with "Well, that's a good question". hahaha :)
This is the stuff we in Australia have always had to deal with. Our droughts can last a decade. There was a line in an Australian production from nearly forty years ago where the protagonist says to a mob of young blokes, talking about Europe "...wide slow moving rivers that never run dry..." The young ringers are astounded. It's really wet here at the moment! When it goes back to typical we're going to smash you lot for bushfires and nasties like that. It's a cow, but that's how it is. It's a pity that common sense and decency have taken second place to rapacity, but again, that's not unusual.
I thought you were going to launch into the old saw about the Texan & Aussie bragging about their ranches, or their pickup trucks.
What an excellent comment!
4:17 That's an amazing backdrop.
In Russia, the media write that forests were cut down in Europe to save nature in order to build wind farms. This affected the ecology and made the drought more severe.
In some ways, this isn't wrong: in the United States, mountaintops have been removed for solar farms. We do need more holistic plans for our future actions as a species.
Yes, but how do you suggest solving climate change then? What alternative forms of energy should we be using in Germany? We have been very dependent on gas from Russia - clearly, that was a mistake.
No till agriculture should be a new norm, cover the soil whenever possible, don't let it open to sun light, preserve water in country, prevent water evaporation. We didn't need this technology, but now we have to adopt our farming.
No-till, drought resistant crops and veganism .. are great solutions. But sadly, with the mental state of European farmers, adaptation will take > 20 yrs from now on.
@@jollyjokress3852 True, our farmers beg for money as always with no reforms. No till agriculture uses half of diesel fuel per the same area, requires almost no fertilizers and pesticides and naturally regulates water in soil/country. I don't understand why this technology is not widely used in Europe that has lack of energy resources. Instead farmers just waste resources and water and as always want cheap credit or better free money.
Animal products are the biggest problem, cut them out.
We should think at the table what damage we cause around us with our actions and foodstuff.
The weather seems to be very erratic. Where I live we had a water shortage two years ago but now the dams are over 99%,
it should be called 'climate instability' instead of 'climate change'
@@jcmc9378 so it is becoming mor unstable, so it is changing
Netherlands?
@@jcmc9378 Poles are shifting, so yes climate instability.
@@jcmc9378 climate is changing making weather erratic. Climate is not weather
Lac du der Chantecoq (350 million m³) and Lac d'Orient are reservoirs in France. They are filled in winter by the Marne and Seine. Now both lakes are full and about 10-12 meters deep. It's not that hard to keep the water in stead of letting it run to the sea.
oh that is wonderful! nothing to worry about then. evaporation isn't real
Record breaking heat calls for record breaking consumption of ice cold beer...
Energy production still heavely relies on fossil fuels. And nobody is taking any drastic steps to end this. So how come people complain when the root cause of the problem is already known? This is like somebody complaining they got fined when they were speeding.
I don't disagree with what you are saying. I would just add that there is a root cause of the root cause. It is our almost universal attitude that we have a divine right of complete dominion over the natural resources of the earth, including all of its flora and fauna, to use as we please without fear of consequence. In actual fact we are an integral part of earth's ecology with no more rights in the grand scheme of things than any other creature. I don't believe anything will truly change until this attitude changes. (Truth be told, I'm not holding my breath.)
I'd prefer fossil fuels and live in a forest than in a all concrete megacity with whatever u call as green energy 😏
@@waitandsee9345 You associate "all concrete megacity" with a movement toward clean energy? How did you come up with that?
Sure, we really have to stop using fossil fuels and reduce our energy consumption. But now that we have been so slow to act, we must also adapt without delay, revegetate our cities, review forest management, change our agriculture, etc. All my family leaves in Gironde (France). It's very distressing to see the landscape in the region now. But the situation would have been much less terrible if we hadn't planted pine monocultures and corn everywhere. Fingers crossed we get smarter after this disaster.
@@Sarahlenea Agreed.
Climate disaster is here now & moving swiftly. Jet stream is collapsing so weather has become more intense.
Exactly.
Here we go !
It's been 40c and then 36c in August this summer in the UK, over 30c on many days, what I noticed is we need more trees on every street in the UK to shelter humans from the heat.
Plenty of trees in affluent parts of London, the rest is pretty much not thought of by local authority's.
@@gee3883 Yes I've noticed when I've been in London, and in Spain, the parts I've visited have many trees on the streets, it really makes a difference on a hot day.
@@gee3883 Well if they don't clad the building in plastic in order to barbeque their tenants like Grenfell Tower then that would be a fine thing and a great start for the Power That Be in London & UK. They could proceed on from there to more plane trees.
Just spent time in Germany we had highs of 37°C and regular daytime temperatures of 32°C and felt baking hot, having the same regular temperatures as Greece.
The Alps and Arctic are giving up. Spain is out of ice. Russia is facing catastrophic fire storms and tornados. There is no solution to the situation.
"WHAT CAN WE DO", the Reporter asks, but she just doesnt know as much about this as Hbomberguy, Climate-Town, Our Changing Climate, Some More News, UpisNotJump, Second Thought, and Simon Clark. ALL who agree that GLOOM HELPS NO ONE and almost-all who List things that normal People can do. Drughts and Water-Running-Out and HOW TO FIX IT were also covered by Some More News and Second Thought, who also-alsoooo happen to be much-praised for their Worker-Right Coverage...
Germany closed all those nuclear powerplants and suddenly starts noticing climate change effects like extreme heat and drought. Am I the only one seeing the irony?
there is no irony. Because nuclear plants are also not the future.
Never understood anti-nuclear sentiment, especially the hysterical ones. Just because we're surrounded by the fumes of dead dinosaur (era plankton) doesn't mean it's okay either. The main difference is that fumes have been easier to ignore. That's how we got ourselves into the mess taking our environment for granted and saying we couldn't possibly destroy it via burning fuel. A few dangerous rods can be easily secured or buried. Definitely a needed first step off carbon.
@@_TbT_ Agreed they're not the future. They're needed for the intermediate between fusion and present day. Hopefully Thorium (China is building a production reactor) is the better intermediate fission solution. We either find a way to mitigate climate effects while maintaining a semblance of the current power output or we will devolve in utter chaos. It's easy for some to adapt. Others just won't and will tear down society to grasp on status quo.
@@nomobobby Agreed. We solved the problems with nuclear energy a while ago, but society has been traumatized by Chernobyl and Three Mile Island to the point they won't even consider it anymore.
@@nomobobby „a few rods?“ There are tons of it. And the burying is THE problem with fission: where do you bury stuff that needs to be buried for hundreds of thousands of years? Almost no country has found an answer to that. And many have searched for the answer for decades now.
20:10 Glad they asked Dr Banner for some expertize in the field.
Damn, I could feel the anxiety and exhaustion of Prof. Bart van den Hurk. This is really a serious matter.
Soo why don't we invest in better homes with better insulation and different materials then wood. Have homes be energy efficient so energy efficient ac/heater fridge stove lights. Don't have tall roofs it holds more heat use lighter colors no black roofs no tar roofs no grass yards if you live in deserts or subtropical areas. Roads should be any color but black or yellow white green or pink so use rock thats that color don't use paint. It will reduce heat and not blind the drivers. The top of your dirt dam should have trees they hold soil reduce water evaporation so grass stays green longer and trees help cool and add lots more o2.
Meanwhile Russia blows up entire cities , thousands of armored vehicles fly and fire thermal missiles, naval supercarriers, nuclear submarines, drones are built. Military industry have already screwed up all our lives, everything is useless when they need continously to burn fuel and produce weapons in the readiness for the ultimate total war. Look to the world average temperature during last century, we have two peaks during ww1 and 2. Ucrainian campaign is literally burning us alive
These are band-aids. Global heating will continue to wreak more and more havoc.
this is where they should fast track net 0 carbon emissions
A metre and half? You can walk across it. Incredible.
Apparently, Austria is the only country in Europe that's faring well weather wise this year. Few days with superb summer temperatures, a rain, then few days of hot weather again. No tropical nights either.
The weather is not related to borders.
@@grip2617 weather and borders are both related to geography. so yes, it is. sometimes.
None of this is a surprise to those who paid attention from 1970 . First, stop listening to those who created this crisis and profited from it. We blew past 404 ppm and never even tapped the breaks. We are now in the cycles of wars for fossil fuels and well into wars for food supplies. Those surviving on the edges are going to experience famine and death. Add roving bands of marauders seeking food with violence...putin in Ukraine to gain control of food and the power that will hold over the world...and the sad part is those who contributed the least will pay the highest price. Add too many ticks on the moose...won't end well. We are well passed avoiding it. Now its time to prepare for the worst that's just beginning. As a Rule i practice every dollar I spend has a carbon footprint. I spend it wisely. I'm older and I will never see the results of this practice, yet morally I'm responsible for those yet to come...or young now and will be forced to deal with this insanity we created. I don't see a mechanic for a medical complaint, a homeless person for financial advice or learn science from a political news commentator...but apparently many do...
Sadly, real science has been politicized. It has become ... Politics + Science = Politics
Now at 424ppm CO2
@@nickl5658 sad, isn't it?. Feedback loop is faster and greater then anticipated too.
@@RussCR5187 I don't think science as a field has changed. I think politics has lost all of its decency and moral compass. US media has completely lost its ethics and adopted wall streets doctrine of maximize profits and screw everything else...
@@michaeltichonuk2176 Agreed.
Over the years European countries have totally ignored the value of their waterways. The river is under pressure from all those thousands of dams up river.
Could the drought be a problem with reassignment of hydro electric power usage to the CERN experiment, with high power usage during the spring months, then no power usage at this time, so low water levels. They might be holding water for winter usage, thus low water levels now.
That is my guess too.
Using gasoline or diesel has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with this
Maybe it's time we need to change things to be able to protect ourselves. Disasters are happening everywhere. flood. Terrifying scenes from tornadoes. I also saw lightning strike to death in Thailand. it's terrible/
We already said that almost 50 years ago.
Very much is possible. little is done. Some of the ME countries will get much lass water. Even so they make old farming evaporating water to the sky and make salty fields. In Syria the only ones having a plan for the the SDF Kurds. None likes them. Soon Egypt hardly will get water from thje Nile. Iran is not able to make reforms for farming. They will get less and less rains and the population grow. It would make sense for Iran to make such reforms. They have a lot of unimployed and by that the pay for the drastic canges are small. Pakistan is same thing. Indus gives less water and by that parts of their irrigation systems will dry out or die by salt.
@@jewiesnew3786 it's more intensive now than 50yrs ago
Yeah, lets pay more taxes and hide in our basements more, and ask for more jabs instead of jobs, and get more blamed for us, that means you, for causing the weather! Oh, and lets worship they satanists and the egspurts, and the Iieders. We need more regulations and less travel. That'll fix it! We (that means you too, bud) caused all this afterall, its all our fault.
Let's see if this post stays, maybe if people are interested in fixes or not if it's just a post for hype! Fix part of your climate change issues by putting in a heat sink - dig down 8-10 feet for at least 40 feet by 40 feet, put specially made PVC hoses in the hole, the 2 ends sticking out of the ground to connect to air pumps to move the 50-52*F year round temperature into your home, office or greenhouse. Then cover pipes with small stones then dirt, making extremes of weather, including heatwaves & cold easier to manage. Get wind or solar for your building to manage blackouts or no electricity! At 50*F, your food & pipes won't freeze & neither will you & in summer you won't have to suffer the heat while in your home. Or build a home underground or remodel your cellar to protect against heat & cold extremes- as long as you're not in a flood zone - be at least 20-30 feet ABOVE the 1,000 year flood mark! Collect rainwater - Put gutters on your building connected to hoses going into rain barrels or even make a cistern in your basement! God Bless Us All!!!
Yep for sure. It all costs though. Costs big time.
Does this mean they don’t have to worry about this upcoming winter?
No.
Here in the Philippines almost all day long raining due to weather tropical depression. Some area of metro manila flooded.
Farming, very intensive, rice, it's never the beef and dairy that gets a mention for the outrageous amounts of land, water, pesticides, antibiotics and government subsidies it gets, weil es schmeckt.
Outrageous!! Oh dear. Slight exaggeration 😀
I worry about the next generation 😭😭😭😭
already this generation
Things look grim. I feel like I've committed a horrible crime in bringing forward more humans to suffer the consequences of our selfishness and and stupidity.
That does not help to get out of the problem. Be happy!
@@maozedung7270 yeah, don't worry about the future generations that we've totally screwed over. That's their problem. Just be happy. Be a sociopath.
@@theobserver9131 You think somehowe in a similare way to me.
We suffered that for years in Africa it’s worst than you imagine it affect everything
During the warning of heat en drought, i have seen lots of people mawing grass and cutting flowers near watersides. I was worried. But i still see some water flowing...
Mankind is a 24/7 heat engine, constantly using and creating heat, when i was a young boy, about 4 years old maybe older, one day i looked at cars going by on a road, because id seen saturn 5 rocket ships on tv i assumed the cars were propelled down the road by the force of what came out of the tail pipe, crazy, but a child like way of looking at things, i said to my dad. “ Dad, the smoke from all the cars in the world, wont it fill up the sky ?” I cant remember what he replied, but since then, ive been wondering when these days we have now would arrive.
That's complete drivel. A Guy McPherson clown-charlatan spouts that sort of drivel. When dealing with these issues it's important to understand the science, it's the lack of understanding that's partly to blame for the mess. The heat that humans produce is extremely minor at only 2.6% of the GHG warming (extra sunshine retention) for ALL heat directly made by humans.
stop cutting down the rain forest !!! say it !!!grow trees stop drilling new wells. good job
How about industry and agriculture wasting less water?
why not use a cooler to defuse runoff to safe temps problem solving is key
It's too late. It's been too late since at least the late 70s
Haha
the sixth extinction….
right!
I'll tell you a secret, they missed one, this is actually magic number 7 extinction...
A tip of the hat to the good folk at DW. Your documentaries are consistently ***** . Thank you.
try putting all the water industry take and puts in bottles back in the waterways , were ever you go the water is piled high in shops when you could just have one bottle and get your water from a tap .
if consumption does not wane, our species will fail
Already too late
It’s because you’re updated and have massive reservoirs or the water infrastructure that place is like the US have. Europeans have been far too reliant on their climate and have not put any thought into water retention programs because they always assume that rain would come eventually. It’s hubris The defining characteristic of the European people.
Its a common trait of all people to take for granted the things they have always known.
hubris can be found in all the peoples of Earth
@Ops Blac If you plan for a bad time is it when it’s good time you’re going to have less bad times. put it simply reservoirs would have been filled with excess water during rainy seasons and that excess water would help mitigate the drought that’s going on right now. Remember just your to go in Germany was flooding in Germany had built some reservoirs earlier to collect the excess water then it wouldn’t be in a severe drought as it is in today. It would still be a problem but you wouldn’t have water problems.
Europe have lots of reservoirs
Thank you DW!
19.67°C is winter temp. here in Philippines. Our summer is around 37°C
We need the Rain forests back in play, the destruction of millions of acres of rain forests has done irreversible damage to the climate as well as rerouting major rivers (China) and other countries. It is not all the burning of fossil fuels that has put us in this situation. The massive amounts of pollution in the water systems around the world is a disgrace, and needs to be addressed . India,China and African nations have unbelievable pollution in their main rivers which is being caused by corruption, manufacturing dumping chemicals, etc, . Clean water is needed for the fish and wildlife as well as for all mankind. Governments and a lot of industry don't care! May God save us all!!
He will, he has promised. Please read Daniel 2:44, and Psalm 37. Then think about what the Lords Prayer is really instructing us to ask for.
@@marieindia8116 Thank goodness God isn't a lady. You can't trust them as far as you can throw them.
Trust a European to paint others with the blame but absolve themselves. It would seem like Europe is facing the problem. So Europe must smell it's own armpits instead of seeking to place the blame on everyone else
Gonna invade those countries in ASEAN ? West totally decimated its Forest..its industrialisation for hundreds years is the BULK of contaminants.. compared with what current developing countries doin now..
@@marieindia8116 lol 😂 good joke
Thank you for clear concise messages here about the situation without any bias…
Samantha Baker sounding like someone doing a presentation in front of the class without much prep work. A lot of repeat answers, and the same old "climate change" thing as a blanket blame-all. We need better, smarter, and more creative ideas about these major problems we are facing. Desalination plants need to be more commonplace, and with safer solutions regarding brine.
Weather is not climate. Draught is not heating. Local is not global. North Norway just had a cold and wet summer.
Next on the Menu : Planetary Hospice, Managed Retreat, Human Habitat Loss- we are the extinction level events. 🌍🌎🌏🦖☄️
Yup. There will be more and devastating earthquakes and weather extremes. The earth is waking up and going through a renewal process. Animals are migrating and people should follow them.
in the early 1920 to 1970 there where long low water deficiencies at River Rhine earlier also severe droughts in all Europe, Yesterday east Württ and Western Bavaria rain , thunderstorm, reservoirs are at 24 ° C , no severe algea formation , low water weeds , reservoirs at 80% + and good harvest ongoing , fruit excellent, corn could need a weekly Rain, Summer did not exceed the Beauty of 2003 and 2004, its chilly at night 11-17°C in August and some isolated days @ > 30 C° , its the First summer in nearly 20 years which is acceptable and comparable to summers before y2k
Either drought or monsoon downpours. For years we didn´t have normal summer.
"WHAT CAN WE DO", the Reporter asks, but she just doesnt know as much about this as Hbomberguy, Climate-Town, Our Changing Climate, Some More News, UpisNotJump, Second Thought, and Simon Clark. ALL who agree that GLOOM HELPS NO ONE and almost-all who List things that normal People can do.
They're expanding from where they were. MIND BLOWN!
Almost near record...
As seen, the drying up of glaciers, causes lands to dry out. This will have the effect to create more desert environment. With the concentration of landmass being converted to desert, the increase of dust particles in the environment will increase. Evidence from boreholes of Himalayan glaciers, reveal that not all glaciers were lost, when accumulation of dust, greenhouse gasses and water in the atmosphere caused an ice age. When flying over the low Alps, not many glaciers can be seen, Europe is drying out. 80 Nagasaki sized bombs, will make enough dust evaporate from bombed cities, to cast the world in a -60 •C average global ice age within 7 months. Basically this information learned the world leaders, that anywhere between 1-100 years a new ice age will start. Probably sooner than later if we do not revert the process of the rivers drying out/the glaciers disappearing. -S. Muller
The air and soil-surface warms up much more quickly than the oceans, therefore the air now can absorbe more humidity and transport the clouds farer. The warm water of the Golf stream stucks in the south and its warm water doesn t reach Europe like it was in the past. Europ will become soon a steppe and semi desert in my opinion.
What can be done? Reduce carbon emissions?!!!! really, how long do you think that will take?
Have a look at how Cuba transitioned after the fall of the URSS, I think we can do better than that.
@@janklaas6885 Hello Jan. Would you mind reposting your reply to my comment from earlier? There's something weird going on here, and I got blocked from replying to you. Thanks!
I will never forget when we took a cruise on the Rhine River. 🇩🇪 I am so sorry about the drought . I think it’s a good idea to keep a pantry and start growing some food 🥘 All you need is a few buckets 🪣, soil , seeds 🌱and 💧 water
you left out sun.
@@MikeA15206 yes I did thank you lol 😂
Does anyone remember the beginning of the movie, The Gods must be crazy ? Where the narrator talks about how mankind changed his/her environment to suit them rather than vice versa.
All infrastructure has not been built to withstand shifts in climate. These rivers obviously yielded water but their surrounding infrastructure was not built to bolster the capturing of water, nor to slow down the excesses. Instead, the structures shed water and strictly serve human-economic functions. This is why society struggles to even formulate a coherent response to these problems. We've built most things consciously apart from our environment, as though we don't exist in the same space with it. The technology needed to hold water in soil is relatively simple and relies on known biological processes. For those reasons alone, it'll be ignored and be treated as magical thinking, despite obvious facts, like: "Trees give shade, slowing evaporation." When you dig a trench, does it stay filled forever? Apparently, a modern government simply replies, "Yes, it does! Also, solar panels! Don't think too far ahead!"
All the infrastructure crumbles to dust by time, that illusion will be washed down and blown away.
Meanwhile they're going back to use fossil fuel
I was thinking of Rhine River Cruise this year; I suppose not possible even next few years.
“ Reaching near, almost, record lows.” What does that mean?
In order to understand the future one should study the past. Climate change was a ‘thing’ long before industrialisation, it is disingenuous (though useful to manipulate the gullible) to ignore the past cyclical nature of the climactic variations.
I agree with you on studying the past. But even though it is true that climate change was a thing in the past, the situation we are in now is unique because this time climate change is a direct consequence of human activity. To say that climate change is cyclical without pointing to this causation is misleading people.
Wow it's almost like that the climate is changing.
Happens 4times a year too. Seasons don't exist anymore.
It must be those pesky gods ... Time to sacrifice a lamb
@@into_the_void why is allah and Jesus and brake ?
Doesn’t hot air hold more moisture? I would think the hotter it gets, the more rain.
What is short term? Short term for corporate companies = 5 years, Short term for humans = Life...
As much as I dont like Al Gore. The man was right. 20 years ago he predicted what is now happening. Sadly, no one wanted to listen, and now we're all on the struggle bus. Hoping that the governments and corporations can do away with their over pollution and greed.
Suppose there were a cabal of ultra-rich and powerful people who believe that only they know how to solve today's crises. Let's call them the billionaire oligarchs. Maybe they belong to a group like the WEF. Suppose further that they have actually convinced themselves, rightly or wrongly, that climate change is both real and advanced enough that nothing in the realm of traditional economics, individual behavior, or democratic cooperation can be done to avoid total calamity. What might they do? They might decide that the best way for them to: 1) reduce the worldwide use of natural resources, 2) reduce emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere, and 3) still maintain their oligarchic control over the unwashed masses, is to drastically reduce the global population by means of a pandemic or two. To exert tight enough control over what would surely become a chaotic downsizing of civilization they might work to establish strict totalitarian rule in combination with mass electronic surveillance, all enforced by both militarized police and the kind of finance-based social control that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could provide. Are we seeing moves in those directions? Strict authoritarian mandates during the pandemic? Freezing of bank accounts in Canada? Digital Yuan in China? Flagrant censorship on social media? Mass Formation on the way to totalitarianism?
Actually more Americans voted for Al Gore than for George Bush Jr. But the electoral college guaranteed Bush the win. So much for George Carlin's view that voting doesn't matter. Unless you think that Bush would have had the same environmental policies as Gore. In which case, you should seek professional help.
@@drmodestoesq Also, wasn't it the case that the Supreme Court interfered with the final election tally in Florida?
@@RussCR5187 And to that point the SCOTUS essentially violated the Tenth Amendment in choosing Bush as the winner. What follows is the essential point of the 10th Amendment. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
I dont have problem with his stance, but I do hv problem with the American Government that's using this Climate Change initiative to subjugate and forcing other countries leaning on its policy.. while per capita an American are the biggest polluter
We have to completely change our lifestyle for 2-3 generation .. the authorities must force / impose to the population limited holiday flights and a very strict and very limited fuel consumption
No!! With what army?
@@ashleyhill6697With the army of the law!
If you shade the river with overhead solar panels it will decrease the sun dehydrating the water and at the same time provide energy. If you include over head foam that captures dehydrating water and drips it back down it can become a closed loop system.
.....water does not "dehydrate"....it evaporates.....learn some simple concepts and terminology so you don't appear as a fool next time.....
They should all wash thier cars on the same day... Always rains when i wash mine....