It’s amazing what 1 week of warm weather can do.
“Human-caused climate change has raised…”
"We know that climate change is making heatwaves and droughts longer, more frequent, and more intense.
From one of their linked sources:
“Ironically, this additional atmospheric moisture triggers heavier downpours in other regions, which explains why the overall trend in the U.S. has been toward wetter conditions.”
So in other words we are suffering a drought in a drought-prone area while other areas are getting more rain. If GLOBAL climate change was implicated in drought, then all areas should be affected in the same direction. That source mainly refers to the US, yet is being used to justify scientific conclusions about Germany’s global weather change.
One thing a lot of people miss is that the Great Plains regions of the US have about a 50 year cycle of drought. The Dust Bowl was the 2nd to last drought, with the last one being in the late 1950s (not a big historical deal due to cheap electric power allowing for greatly increased pumping of ground water from the aquifer). So we were about due for a big drought. I don’t know about Germany in particular, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn they have semi-predictable cycles as well.
The Dust Bowl wouldn’t have been such a big deal to locals, except that big land owners used it as an excuse to kick off 99% of the sharecroppers then hire the remaining 1% to drive those new-fangled tractors. As described in “The Grapes of Wrath.”
Similarly, I’m sure the worst effects of Global Climate Weather Change will be the ways the elites use it as an excuse.
One thing is that is never highlighted is the cyclical nature of the weather. I come from a particular region of Australia that was settled relatively recently (early 1800’s) and is a farming district for wheat, citrus and the usual array of other crops. There are a number of long standing farms in the area, very little corporate interference or ownership - or at least that is how it was when I was younger.
Successful farmers are completely aware of the local weather patterns and cycles. Some of the old timers are oracles and do successfully predict what the seasonal weather is going to be like next season, and the one after to the point that local financial institutions take their projections into account for thing like crop success, price of land and development concerns. It’s not given a lot of coverage outside the region, but considering the cropping results pretty much equates to the growth and financial success of the connected urban centres, it’s definitely a factor.
In this region, the weather works on a 7 year cycle, with an overlaying, but less certain cycle of 40 years for trends. The 40 year cycle is a bit more tenuous, owning to the lower sample size, but the knowledge has been confirmed by people from the regional indigenous population. Leaving aside the politics of all that, the local folk make their bets on their future based on this knowledge. Interference from the bureaucrats has to be managed in light of this local knowledge, and it is from this store of local knowledge that people reject the climate narrative. Why complain about climate change when the expectation is that the drought will break in 2 years, and the wet will come for 4 years before easing off for a couple of years, and that this will happen regardless of the latest white paper from Greta and her goblins?
With respect to the climate change technology, I do wonder how much of the weather is actually created, versus how much of the weather patterns are “leaned-on” to create the outcomes. As an example, the floods in Australia that appear to be out of the blue are happening in a period of expected wet-weather (as a pattern), immediately after a long period (5-7 years) of registered drought in those areas and the old fellas will tell you that there is nothing mysterious about this phenomenon other than the magnitude of the floods, or the fires, or whatever.
So, nothing really “scientific” about this comment, other than that I suspect that, if interference is occurring, its a result of “leaning into” prevailing weather patterns and giving an extra push to get to a purported goal.
I remember reading an article once about how “global warming” was the cause of colder, snowier winters in the U.S. “Global warming” or “climate change” is now the main all-purpose villain; it always has been there in the background, but since Orange Man left office, the MSM has replaced him with climate change as their preferred object of hysteria and hype. Nearly everything that happens now will be attributed to climate change…
the worst effects of Global Climate Weather Change will be the ways the elites use it as an excuse.
Bingo!