Experts fear Germany’s deadly floods are a glimpse into climate future
While Columbia’s Kornhuber hesitates to speculate on the exact role climate change played in this week’s floods in Germany, he says, “I would be very surprised if this event just happened by chance. Weather is being changed…,” he says. “We know that with every degree of warming, rainfall extremes will become more extreme. I think we can expect more such events in the future.”