2020 officially saw a record number of $1 billion weather and climate disasters.

Interesting that the person who thinks we can adapt to climate change can't adapt to a minor inconvenience caused by a buggy website.

That's just media using sensationalism to push a narrative and drive advertising revenue. The data has been available on fire and flooding trends for some time and does not support the alarmists you have aligned with. Stepping away from that consider the push by the some NGOs to blame Daisy the cow for warming, well, here is an interesting exposée, which debunks claims that we should stop eating meat to save the planet. It is worth sticking with for the full 23 minutes. The simple narrative pushed in the media turns out to be a dangerous misrepresentation of facts. While I do have questions about some of the claims in the presentation you all should know enough by now that everytime someone comes and says "the science says", you are wise to question what they are up to.

Danno is correct if he is talking about the UK where this has been established. Germany has 3 or 4 major river basins running through it (Oder, Elbe, Danube and Rhine) and seasonal flooding has always been an issue affecting different areas depending on the time of year and certain weather patterns notably the Vb weather pattern (conditions whereby an extensive field of precipitation is created due to a low-pressure area stretching from Poland to Northern Italy and the field is continuously regenerated over a long period due to colliding air masses of different temperatures.)

In the case of the region in Germany in question there have been notable changes in river engineering over the past two hundred years which led to increased population density in former flood plains and agriculture development that has changed agricultural land use patterns meaning upstream wetland areas have better drainage and will evacuate the water more quickly. See Flood magnification on the River Rhine. (2006)

Suffice to say when all you have is a hammer everything is a nail. The reasons for the effects of the flooding are complex and varied, don't fall for climate narcissism letting your ego drive your response, go look for the data and see if the trends support your hypothesis.

This photo is taken in Blessem in Germany and you don't have to settle for a cropped photo.

Interesting observation that lines up with Dannos point earlier that region is one of the the most paved over in Germany.

Another factor to consider is the world population has grown from ~2 billion at the start of the twentieth century to ~7 billion yet the most disastrous floods over the last 1000 years are not attributable to climate narcissism the number of deaths to flooding is down. The flood warnings were in place so it is rather surprising to see the death toll and very easy to for politicians to say climate change to deflect from any blame especially in an election year.

You have just posted a link to a youtube video that even you do not believe is honest or accurate. Why would you waste people's time?

I suppose this 'pick and choose' which facts to believe is a part of why you and other can see villiages roads bridge, houses and lives getting washed away across 3 countries in Europe and think this is just 'media sensationalism'

I mean, f this isn't worth reporting, what is the point of having a news media?

Building in floodplains does not really help matters when you get the inevitable hundred year flood.

This flood was described by the German weather service as a thousand year flood.

If it was just a hundred year event, the infrastructure would most likely have been able to cope

Climate change will make this 1 in a thousand year event much more common. If we don't keep warming to below 2c, these kinds of events will be normal weather and vast parts of currently habitable land will need to be abandoned

you're completely right. Almost all of the heat and energy in the biosphere is not because of climate change. It's only a very small part that is caused by humans.

The problem is, that the climate was in equilibrium based on a CO2 concentration of 280ppm. We're now at a level of over 410ppm

All of the natural variability for the past few thousand years was based on this level of energy balance. Turning up the CO2 concentration changes the amount of radiative forcing and breaks the equilibrium, so a new balance needs to emerge. That new balance has consequences