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. good, a step ahead. with d w. business beyond the memories are still vivid. on may 29th, 2016 disaster struck the village of pounds bar and south western germany. the cut us off herself. i literally watched the floor away from debra, heading towards manning the floor and it made a noise as while i'm some guy, i couldn't figure out what it was exactly with. then i realize how to show the whole house were shaking. policy pos, mayer. hon. cash film, the catastrophe unfolding in front of him. once in. it's in, sag, completely insane before you know, the emergency services can't do anything. it's not impossible right now. out of the

question my god, save pounds, bottle life, financial kill. i was in shock. i couldn't even begin to process what i was say. missed i know. although no lives were lost. the flood left a village devastated this its voice horrible. i'm speechless off people. people have never seen anything like it. a few years later, germany suffered the effects of a different kind of extreme weather. in 20182019 temperatures rose above 40 degrees celsius in the summer, with no rain for months on end rivers, dryden be done. then in summer 2021, the, our valley in western germany was hit by flash flooding. let's as you looked and all of a sudden we were confronted with issues that we'd always thought only affected somewhere else in the world of places like bangladesh or dramatic. whether

fluctuations have become commonplace, what does the future hold, and what do we need to do to cope with climate change? ah ah, we begin our research in vintage park in the home secretion. an idyllic spot at the foot of the storm via forest. on june 5th 20215 weeks before the flooding in the eye valley. a summer storm wreaked havoc here. the picturesque village was overwhelmed and yolk and bowman's home was among the many destroyed. he and his wife, marian will never forget that day,

a traumatic experience that edged in their memory the basement was completely flooded. the couple had only just finished renovating their home. and now had to start all over again from scratch. they own a heating installation business or at least they could do a lot of the work themselves at near the rule of alyssa disco murphy up for if we just got everything finished in here marked with 5 or 6 years ago, we'd fitted the house out with external thermal insulation for energy efficiency and switched from fossil fuels to an air to water heat pump inside. yet we done the garden too, and we're actually looking forward to concentrating on other things that live. i would love to that make her wanted. i love that, and that was it wasn't to be after hours of torrential rain fall over the local forest hills. the village was hit by

a deluge. so my 50 balloon doesn't call i can't get the images out of my hand is i often look at the photos we took. it really got to me soft ah marion bomb and still can't believe what happened. the rhine and the motor and often burst their banks. but villages that are nowhere near major rivers shouldn't be at risk of flooding. local simply weren't prepared. the bowman still haven't gotten over the experience. bush answered on to halston. i was terrified that the front door would break and the water would rush in. from upstairs, we could see the pressure building. we could see the door starting to give way from africa. the was guns were the water was up to here. dears was the gun. so anti yard was under water. here oliver was watched on winter book is situated in

a valley in the hunts like mountains. the village is nestled in the stone by forest, the source of the watcher that caused such damage. forest landscapes. how fast water storage capacity soaking up heavy rainfall like a sponge. but in recent years, this has no longer been happening as efficiently as it used to. van had pound batter is in charge of the local forestry service. he and his colleague michael fake are going to show us what the problem with the flooding invent up or can other religious down in the valley is linked to the state of the forest. it's increasingly try

here where they're digging. even the beach trees are showing signs of drought damage, and beaches aren't usually very sensitive. it actually rained a lot in the summer of 2021. but how much rain did the ground actually absorb? it soon transpires not much at all. montes yes. you can see its own dry well it has trout to become a long term problem. it both shifted the hut and he and eric yawn in late last year . there was no rainfall here in the region for more than 70 days, improvised. can there cost alone area? it didn't rain for over a $100.00 days. yes. by the 1st of august 2021. there was still a deficit of over 250 liters per square meter meter. hard to imagine, we're given the years over all weather. but it goes to show how severe the lack of

rainfall has been in the last 3 years. last, if it's either in and it's and ya on in ellipse and that i on ninety's vaughn as hard that explains there needs to be 2 months, a steady rainfall, day and night to make up for the drought of recent years. he also says that the forest needs to be managed differently in the past water used to be trained from the forest these days he and his team are laying pipes and taking trenches in the zone fight in order to replenish the watershed and retained the water that collects on the logging roads the aim is to ensure it seeps into the ground across the forest instead of flying into the valley and causing the waterways there to post their bank live. uh yeah. hm. josefina becker. all he am the one vote back loy for de la. there are lots of streams here in the soon vas idol, the elbow,

beta griffin bert. and it was striking how quickly their water level was rose in just a short space of time. here in the soon vase just when it rained a massive amount of water collected in a concentrated area, jackwoods, it was pretty frightening in its own boat. one deposit is as far as the song being seemed. when the storm had the forest couldn't absorb the torrential rain, the logging roads were crippled and had to be rebuilt. now deeper trenches and larger pipes have been put in place to re route heavy rainfalls to points in the forest where it can steep into the ground. yet i shall damage dust be these are up flush bits and patient kern. what that does is avert excessive ronald be and allow groundwater to replenish lungs. i'm on the water is distributed slowly and steadily across the forest floor. i where it's absorbed, who causes in terms of the local ecosystem. it means there's enough water to sustain the forest as a natural resource, again,

leaving squalid head between for us as lean from florida to fulfill it than had found better planning to upgrade the whole forest. this way, it's a small but significant way of helping to reduce the effects of extreme weather. the next up on our research trip is in northern germany. every year hamburg coast, the extreme weather congress. it brings together weather and climate researchers as well as environmental activists. the event aims to reach as many people as possible in the process, raising awareness of climate change and the need to act an urgent priority. not only for metrology span priyanka, but also politicians and the likes of mo, she play chief, one of germany's leading climate researchers. the 2021 congress was

overshadowed by the events in the us valley. can. if we need chain mission, the choice isn't between more or less climate protection, but between proper radical, sustainable climate protection and climate disaster. that's where we're at. dam friday for future. there's fridays for future, i think. and in 2019, there was more discussion of the climate in the environment than there's ever been before. but in 2019 that same year before the pandemic hair toys, we also took more cruises and more flights than ever before. that there's a huge cognitive dissonance going on. and if we really want to get anywhere, then we need to have the courage to change the tub. these are the gets in the experts attending the event. none of those drought and flooding will become increasingly common of the islands i to in these a talking follows me with that yet. so i told math it's a law insane. on the one hand, there are protracted dry spells, as we saw in 2018,

2019, and 2021. and these weren't balanced out. and so there's always been the occasional dry year. but the but 3 in a row is conspicuous religous or done. and on the other hand of game, we can expect to see increasingly frequent storms and heavy rainfall. i'm so very slow moving storms and flash flooding from bed. in general, the weather is becoming more extreme, but that's the bottom line of august. you helped him while we were at the congress, we heard about an ambitious research project looking at extreme weather in this way, be in mountains 10 german research institutes are pulling their resources including cloud and precipitation radars and lasers in order to explore the complex processes that occur in the atmosphere, basic scientific research that allows them to better protect extreme weather events and their consequences. these scientists are waiting for stormy weather. this may be an alps or germany's main storm hotspot and storms are

a key aspect of extreme weather. professor merrick once is a meteorologist with as of yo, plaza trauma was i, we're going to blow up a balloon, so we'll be ready if a storm starts to breathe in gentlemen, we've already set up the probes. so now we're going to load the balloons in the car, 6 or 7 of them fix it, and then we'll drive right into the store. the balloons are filled with helium, they'll carry small probes into the clouds and will enable the scientists to observe. hale formation occurring during the storm. hill is a typical feature of extreme weather. the team are excited. the clouds are gathering after hours of waiting. they now need to act fast

before they head into the storm. mere quince visits the lab to check the clouds activity. which direction are they drifting in and is the upwind or convection strong enough to carry the probes into the storm clouds. with i'd like to watch like you saw doctor does when he got home convection and shows a powerful lift off when the rain foam said falls more or less vertical to the points where the up wind is. basically it suppresses the up wednesday. so, and that means that the standard lifetime of a single cell is on average, 30 minutes to an hour. it destroys itself as it was out of scope with dental. that makes it all the more important to release the balloons in the right place at the right time. outside the storm cell is getting stronger. it's time for the scientists to launch their balloons.

right here. positioned inside cuts the probe's measure temperature and air pressure, as the balloons drift upwards through the storm. precisely where hale storms are forming inside the cloud. mckerick once can follow the action in real time figure. we've got a signal. are we going to you 3 balloons, because the rains got worse and we hope they'll take off. yeah, i've got a signal off. we go one lord on stop. have lisa and the probes are inside the clouds, taking the pulse of the storm as it were. if it was so i thought argument life i, fortunately we're not in the middle of the storms out there of 5 centimeter hailstones coming down from the middle and they'd give our cars are good bashing on

the top with it from here me here, constant as team can collect a wealth of useful data, there will help predict extreme weather events. we're planning to visit him in his lab and cast. we're in a few weeks time back inventor book. the bowman's are still dealing with the flood damage. it's the weekend. but instead of putting their feet up, they are hard at work trying to make their home livable again. juergen bowman is haunted by memories of last july, when a gaping hole suddenly appeared in his yard and had to form alcohol or wild. if there was a power can't, because all the sockets were under water lorne on, it was like being on a house boat or as millions of miles or so what exactly happened as i'm rather than out of by the back of over the well this here is an old stream tunnel and there was so much pressure from underneath that it got pushed up with

a self supporting structure. and when it got pushed up, it one stone breaks off and the structure collapses. first girl i film shot on his mobile phone shows the thing called that resulted right in front of his house. i 1st locked up employees. i've worked with a hole in the garden, got bigger, and then as solid wood garden bench got pulled into the current, got turned in circles water and was washed away for by guns. that was the point when i said to my husband, does roger okay? have him is now i'm frightened. my father rakish, august flu olive enamel offers one. it all disappeared into the whole of the lavonne of the hall. the chairs are terra cotta. ornaments of it all. got washed away. what happened here was nothing in comparison to the disaster in the our valley. round room. there was some damage. it's bad. it's a problem, but at least no one was heart gluck. gun lynch was wrong with the r

valley floods in july 2021 claimed 133 lives with 700 people left injured and 42000 others also affected. they were among the worst bloods in german history. in the space of just a few hours, it rained as much as it usually does. in months. the german meteorological service called it unprecedented insurance companies that it was the most expensive weather related incident in 50 years. was damages totaling an estimated 10000000000 euros. just climate change means that such events are likely to become more frequent. we meet alpa, geographers trauma, hug, and camp, and theresa sch,

title and the village of my shows in the, our valley. they are trying to establish the precise water levels that occurred during the flooding. not easy, given that many of the watergate us along the our river got swept away. experts rely on them to analyze and predict flood events. give us a standardized warden. what else? presidio highest warden have a little from his head which pianist from one country directly to water levels on the outflow far exceeded any flooding that happened since records began fivefold human. and, you know, we haven't seen water levels like that in recent history. and, but if you look at the history of the, our valley india, then you can see that in fact, these extreme events did occur. they were very rare, but not on known. overcome in 18 o 4, there was flooding in the our valley that caused similar damage. done obviously on a smaller scale because at that point to the valley was less built up top. that us tired on myself. nice little in the boat born here in my shows,

the storms swept away a number of houses and destroyed the local train line complete with most bridges. teresa tidal and thomas logan can from the university of bon, are using a fyodor light, surveying tool to measure maximum flood heights across the valley. it helps them identify precise watcher levels at precise geographical locations. with the brown color of this method shows just how far the washer road trauma, southern camp has been researching the history of blood in the, our valley. for many years. this time, the watcher here with 10 meters higher than its normal level. the script a whole for soc is equal carbon, the flattened, they can find the fisa falling in deutschland, on their off blood risk matters for all of germany's river tub. but clearly they've

not been adequate latin vs and feel on the basis of these matters. there are plenty of places where you can reasonably decide to put up new buildings. who are these maps don't include historical flow, doesn't help us on the water level record and that are available. they fact just 50 or 60 years out of my food in that's too short a time frame to reflect extreme, then it was always extra. emma agnes up to burn. these maps has since been updated and now include historical data too. but what world climate change play in the i valley disaster was that the ultimate cause in pump there. i would argue that this is gale of the flood is not necessarily climate change related. it's gets a lot in terms of the frequency. well, if it's in other words, how often such events occur from blog, you could argue with changing weather conditions that mean the floods now occurring more frequently. and that's

a consequence of climate changes. climate change increases the likelihood of such events occurring more frequently as demonstrated by a recent study conducted with the participation of the german meteorological service. yet the question remains. why is why they're becoming more extreme? we meet spend prayer at the weather center of germany's main public broadcaster some 35 forecasts are produced for weather bulletins here every day of our music to will clear that job includes analyzing maps and figures not only the t v weatherman has observed that a number of weather phenomena have become increasingly common from the focus until here as much of it does as if the noise here is at 50, not went on. oh, okay. are, you know, here got tells us about the standing ways phenomenon, high pressure and low pressure. france that don't actually move. it explains the devastating storms and the r valley does dawn via an pounds,

but it's highly uncommon for high and low pressure. france to be stationary. but it's become a feature of current weather patterns. and if it of us feed for diet, arms that move, distribute rain across a wide area, but if they don't move, the impact is concentrated in one place. so there's extremely heavy rainfall conflict. if the high pressure front doesn't move than we have the high temperatures and drought, we saw in 2003 or 2018 implement. at the moment we're seeing more frequent standing waves and also more frequent stationary highs and love was to ease of use. so that's a hypothesis that's being investigated right now in law in scientific times, it's not straightforward. the natural world is always complex, though i am far according to political climate change, as exacerbating the frequency of standing waves of air meteorologist and storms researcher mckerick once agrees where meeting him at his research institute

ah, he said at the center dedicated to analyzing natural disasters, he and his team evaluate extreme weather events around the world. they were among the 1st to compile an overview of the scale of the i valley disaster and the damage it cost me here. cons shows us a map of the area based on satellite data and aerial images. he believes society needs to adjust to the prospect of frequent, extreme weather events. the hum in deutschland, i extreme weather events occur in germany every year or so. there are floods and hail storms, winter storms, and when we live with them and we have to live with them, isn't i'm it live. oh. and we have to be aware that they happen and know how to

respond this, but we tend to ignore it as is typical in our society and honest, we ignore things we don't like and, and, but that can be highly distracted for and then these disasters happened when unfair to services are you know, it doesn't, const and as collies, closely monitor the course and the consequences of these disasters. the aim is to figure out what we can learn from them. and in the meantime to remain vigilant. and with our fall in this, i can, as i understand via for this one, flanagan, ideally these are events that can and should teach us lessons for the future is as the fall when floods occur, it's a mistake to say, okay, there's been a flood, it won't happen again, that soon it's go, let's rebuild everything exactly the way it was here in that's what's happening in the, our valley is what we know now that places that were flooded are highly vulnerable . c, as in as in there were fewer don't flashing just as ultra vaguely like ordinance in

the the all centerpiece in this cons i in statistics, don't tell us anything. then i guess another flood could happen next year, or it could happen in 200 years. time was ongoing. but what we do know is that if such an extreme weather event happens again, and then certain spotters, such as in short on the, our river will most certainly be flooded again sir, i do wanna read and, and then consider roughly what at me heck, once and his team have also analyzed the flash flooding and bounce back in 2016. at the time it was the most severe flooding scene in germany for decades. again, the cause was extremely heavy rainfall concentrated in one area. within 30 minutes, the village was torn apart. miraculously no one died that many were left homeless. it also resulted in an unusually vast volume of flotsam and other debris. this

point, it's terrible, as even if i'm speechless because i've never seen anything like it, the reconstruction work still isn't finished. and for locals, the emotional scars have yet to heal may have hung harsh help steer the village through its darkest hour. the road to recovery has been strewn with obstacles and set back. hush has even encountered hostility. it's been a difficult few years. he has written a book about what happened and travels the country, giving talks on the environmental threats, facing villages like pounce back featuring images such as these

is a good look is so to the images as so affecting the inevitably moved people deeply image and i go i know i thought, isabel, you couldn't reach them the same way with words. makalya images are extremely powerful when the mot i was on the cortisol, we are still dealing with the consequences that the reconstruction walk is ongoing shaw. 5 years later, we can't do everything at once, and it'll take a few more years before we don crystal and see that it's a long term processed or not. we have to think in terms of dec out in his record. mr. has come out a little. we have to think about how to contain flooding her, how to treat the ground, what to do to protect the places at higher altitude where there's heavy rainfall to her mom. i was just like laying stock for the villages. mean square was completely rebuilt. the mayor wants to show us other reconstruction work such as the

new reinforced walls along the village stream. the reconstruction work has cost the village approximately 55000000 euros to date. outside the village, there are now massive debris traps along the narrow slope for punk harsh. this is the key element in the protection plan. the huge structure is designed to trap avalanches of debris pouring downstream. right, all the thong, who's all fur fur off in the middle problem i'm reason to know about 50 meters upstream. there's another huge debris trap or know of cobra is what we have to do was was and it's a long term project to start is try to hold back the water at the source is where the heavy rainfall occurs. so it could be a retention reservoir. this week,

which is problematic up there and it will be better if the water could seep into the ground. like once, almost more to me, the best solution would be to stop farming practices and plant more trees and can to improve seepage potential wider. if i, for her personal physicals movie coat buff on the land around pounds bar as extensively farmed field boundaries were removed, they could have helped contain watcher and there are fields and fields of corn. another detrimental factor because the crop try is out the soil as a and for talk that are born come even thus ross on the hood of name living arid soil can't absorb water and that results in localized flooding. i like to compare it to baking cake, dove this, but imagine taking some flower and pouring milk on his brow. the flour is the dry ground with the milk. the heavy rain watch you'll be laughed with. is flower on the

bottom and milk just floating on top of it once you start needing and the bottom. in this case, the flower has been moistened with a little bit of a milk. you can add more milk and it'll soak in better sides and aspect. we'd like to investigate further at the university of trey or researchers are finding out how drought changes. soil. an experiment is underway in the soil science department. the samples being summoned to see how well they absorb water. they're born again from in a long shot. they were lung a tithe of butter soil acts like a sponge in the landscape, storing water over a long period of time, and then gradually releasing it to plant 3 to its surroundings, to lakes and rivers. extreme and extreme weather brought about by climate change has consequences. long enough, dry soil colds absorb water at the same rate. instead, water just runs off. it was leading to flooding and bodies of water and also to

soil erosion of wouldn't are parked in as it was on the soil. scientists want to demonstrate how long a take the drop of water to seep into various toil samples. first they add a drop of blue colored water to completely dry soil. it takes a while for the trap of blue water to be absorbed. the soil is so try, it's become impermeable. i've got 2 more samples. what have you found out so far? come out of the soil. samples are very different. the dryness definitely plays a big role. that once good soil containing homelessness part, it takes dave to moist in again across

check, clearly shows that so that isn't completely tried out. can still soak up watcher. but if you're a student waltney sanders, lilian owens gas analisia yon. when i was a student in the eighty's and ninety's, we didn't see this kind of dry soap soil. it was unimaginable in it, but that's what we're dealing with now. homes. the environmental research centers drop monitor ever shows the soil effects of up to 1.8 meters has dried out massively on and the rain for we are experiencing in 2021 is just about managing to replenish the top. so the water supply it needs to be done, but the sub soil is still parched by the drought of the last 3 years. i got one in one of the talk ny village, and i are try subsoil and flooding. not as contradictory as it sounds,

according to the experts. the drought 2018 resulted in reduced harvests and millions of years worth of losses in germany's agricultural sector. rivers dried up, such as the ties them near fryeburg, which close from the black forest industry struggled with a shortage of raw materials and even gas was in short supply. the media was full of doomsday scenarios. yet man, and of man as it goes on, feel, in my opinion, it's a mistake to focus on all the doom and gloom. when the media goes on about the apocalypse and his crisis and that crisis, he agrees if we end up so overwhelmed that we lose all our courage and think there's no point trying to do anything about it. what, when, in fact there are so many groundbreaking projects is skipped, though. feel like tom projected groundbreaking projects that prove we're not powerless against extreme weather, such as the lives back organic farm on the done us back color range and highland

fights founded by young people. but it relies on water and that's in short supply up here. jeanine harbor works to ensure the soil as as permeable as possible, so long as it can still absorb watcher akin with and extreme rainfall fluctuations . hudson hudson campus, you know, that yawn all star auto plaza. in 2014, there was severe flooding hair in the region that caused millions worth of damage for the marshal back stream overflow. it could be the most of the areas around it all agricultural fields that are compacted and where the water can't see pin easily, and the soil is holmes deficient and being on flooding sweeps away. the entire top soil and entire villages are hit by mudslide alpha buffington. the young organic farmers are planning to revitalize their land using a special technique. first,

they analyzed local rainfall patterns. up in the blue line on the chart show in which direction the rainfall is likely to flow. jeanine harbor and her colleague have drawn red lines where they plan to dig ditches that will help distribute the watcher across the farmland. this technique is called key line water management of as you can, but they're concerned about the amount of red in their chart which indicates just how try the region is. ah, they're keen to show us how effective their strategy is against why they're extremes. first they used to how to take their ditches. before switching 10 excavator they want to test how the key line water system works. they take their trenches with a slight gradient 1.5 percent to prevent large volumes of water from flowing too

fast. i hear from an experiment on average z, and we're conducting an experiment to illustrate how the water that a masses during heavy rainfall. avengers can be distributed over the area and conceit incident ditches laid according to the queue line system missed. instead of flowing down the slope, guaranteed and causing flooding in the valleys and calmed on the, to zang funding for them to book our water from the top a graphical depressions where a collections could be diverted to the mouth. so where the ground is dr. office google just doesn't do talking, spin owned jeanine harbor uses the water tank and a hose to simulate heavy rainfall. come a mark. many flood obviously rain as moth localize. but the experiment shows that

the dish absorbs the artificial downpour as planned for the water, then flows along the key line towards the elevation. mm it looks simple, but it's an intelligent way for farming to adjust to the challenges of climate change. but heavy rainfall and drought don't just adversely affect rural regions, but urban areas to villages, towns and cities also, nita just says weather experts fan trigger the problem is not really out. dust stuck on implants if must equal to heightened his own globule for ziegler problem, of course, is that cities and surrounding areas are very different because cities are built out at the close. daddy show that heat waves in the likes of colona frankfort line, make them 9 degrees hotter than surrounding areas of cities such as cosgra are also

likely to see a significant increase in temperature too. and this poses an additional problem dam . it effectively makes the city a completely different climate zone. so we need to think about how we can make cities greener and less dry ela with more greenery, more water cooling by evaporation to curve extreme hate, these extreme hits of ugly to devon urban planners. and cas were, are already looking at ways the city can tackle climate change. one of their 1st projects is the redesign of the plaza site, the main station it's set to become much greener, which will not only make it more attractive, but also how protect the city from getting too hot in english didn't give this lands me for felix was eager to our cities are very built up, that the idea is that instead of being drained off to rivers by leading to flooding,

water is retained in the cities a facet. that's what's called a sponge city president, man i and his family, that 1000000 auto as a landscape architect and urban planner, his munich based team was awarded to re design contract. construction is about to begin down. mm hm. yeah. it's a target love to another them on we're experiencing more very hot days on that, but also more heavy rainfall by lunch off. that's problematic enough in the countryside in but it's even more extreme in the cities on the face. how it can get unbearably hot in cities like causal were in the rhine valley. and we have to cool down our cities and at the same time, mitigate the heavy rain for which is becoming more frequent and retain the water in the cities up. some is on the flutter, so it so high trees, fountains and miss spray will help cool the plaza father walkways are permeable.

water is a key design element ratliff, near display. we need to use every project to boost water retention in cities for plans, for cooling purposes, explaining we need to convert cities to what's called green and blue infrastructure to him. cause coin adopting the sponge, 30 concept to meet the climate change challenges of the future. to innovation is essential forest, her band had hamburger in the san vite is also looking for creative ways of maximizing watch her retention just like ploy on auto and kassawa his name as to capture, distribute, and use watcher as efficiently as possible. mm. that then tried to buy visa. my number is that we cannot either from what is crucial, is that we make the call function of the forest or the focus of our efforts with user to boost water attention and increase its sponge function v cronin v can now

does a shameful tian sty, gun ah, there are grounds for optimism. we just need to adapt to changing weather patterns . that's what ponds back mayor frank harsh tells people as he tours germany, raising awareness of flash blood was fever. this morning. we need action and improvement across the board. don't joined us. he said, i do believe that can work, but a lot needs to happen before people like yoga and, and marianna ballman are safe from the threat of flooding. and the villages of been top walk pounced bah, and elsewhere. after a lot of hard work, the couple have almost finished rebuilding their home. yes. finally, we're making progress and we'll simply dive in. the under floor heating has just

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