The Climate Crisis Under the Microscope Part Six: Climate Change Claims Almost 200 Lives in Europe

Opinion analysis by Roa Daher, Featured Writer

Last week, floods devastated parts of Western Germany and Belgium, as record-breaking rainfall caused severe damage to the infrastructure and claimed 196 lives so far, while some residents remain missing. These floods are certainly and irrefutably due to climate change, as the Earth’s warming comes with more frequently occurring extreme weather events, and this was the most difficult ‘natural disaster’ Germany had faced since the North Sea Flood of 1962.