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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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It's not the nature it's us who are in danger.
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!
Wakey wakey it is your time to stop being a slave, make freedom not consumption
How about wind drones, it might help stabilize and break temperature concentrated on 1 area.
Planting trees on the mountain that absorb water and hold back through its roots
Thanks DW. Wonderfull documentary that everyone have to learn.
Happy scandinavian here.
Love the new crops we’ve been able to plant already. Yey climate change!
👍drought and dry weather on the way
Maybe they should stop burning coal
Humans are destined to destroy themselves and most life on this planet.
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.
Does anyone know the name of the tune playing at 35:49?
Break out the boogie boards 😊
The narrator has a very creepy voice.
I’m only here because of striking for school and they told us to watch this documentary for geography
Grand solar minimum
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?"
No single entity , community village town city state or country can change the situation bcoz earth is one humans have defined boundaries Air, cloud & water doesn't flow according to boundaries thus 10 countries saving resources against 170 burning none will be spare, In reality Nature is balancing itself but as humans we are uncomfortable by the balancing 😅😅😅
Balloons are bad for environment, too, though?
2023 big floods in Brazil and Pakistan occur, except place nothing is changed.
In GLOBAL WARMING considerations, why has there been no serious attention to the increasing VOLCANIC and WILDFIRE activity over the past few years? Humans are not the only culprits polluting earth.
The amount of pollution a single volcano blast puts out is overwhelming – millions of times that of cities. Major fires as well. Occasional clips will mention volcanic pollution, but not in proportion to human contribution.
Also, thermal vents have been found beneath both the polar and Antarctic ice caps. But this contribution is disregarded.
SERIOUS INVESTIGATION is needed into the relative pollution contributions of human activity vs. NATURAL DISASTER POLLUTION.
Holocene Maximum Look it up!
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
The extermination of an utterly stupid race called human beings .
Its not climate change anymore, its climate irreversible damage.
why wasn't the debris trap cleared?
I believe the Governments should be held accountable for the current state of the climate. They have known about climate change for many decades and have done very little to counteract it.
If the cause of the abnormal weather that is currently occurring on the earth is not global warming, but self-centered China's excessive weather control such as artificial rain… When did China start implementing its coercive weather control plan? This coincides with the start of abnormal weather events that have been occurring all over the world in recent years…
Watch "Years of living dangerously" by David letterman, and get the idea of how to try to prevent this
😮😢 (mankind) will destroy themselves 😮😢…
Everyone talks about climate change but no one talks about the tilting of earth. This affects climate change. North America gets polar temperatures in winter lower and lower every year. The North Pole is moving I think 60 km. Towards Russia. Remember we live in a magnetic planet. The poles can switch. This is happening now.
Amazing Documentary DW❤❤❤. Very informative❤❤❤
This is for all those parents to figure out. Rich people problems Germany was full of nazis anyway
Mother earth is angry and has had enough of our careless action. Nature is mother earth unleashing her wrath. The consequence of our actions…or inaction.
Build electronic cars and bike that will help.
dont you get it yet? the planet will survive. humans, probably not. us humans have engineered our own demise.
Are they using pumps anywhere . . . I drop a go all the way to the ocean