As Scientists for Future we have prepared a statement on the role of the #ClimateCrisis in the German flooding disaster. It is clear that #GlobalWarming leads to more extreme rainfall. That was predicted since the 1980s climate models and since confirmed by observations. 1/4
https://twitter.com/sciforfuture/status/1418524289708429319
E.g. my PIK colleagues have shown in 2015 that record-breaking rainfall has increased globally. In summer in north and western Europe by ~30%. link.springer.com/article/10.100… Other studies found similar results. 2/4 
Colleagues of ETH Zurich in 2020 demonstrated a significant increase in extreme precipitation over 1901-2013 in Switzerland, Germany and Holland. 3/4 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Climate skeptics try to deny this by pointing to a graph of >10mm rainfall days, but these are by no means extreme but occur 20-30 times/year, as the graph shows. In the current flood, >100 mm/day occurred! And the most extreme rain increases the most, mild rain decreases. 4/4
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