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CLIMATE FINANCE
Are You Prepared If Your House Floods?
What to do when the rain doesn’t stop.
Flooding from across the world has shocked news audiences in both its severity and speed. From Germany to China, intense rain has destroyed homes, business, even entire towns, with most everything destroyed in its path.
- What is causing the extreme flooding?
- Are you prepared for a flood?
- What happens after a flood?
The Cause of Flooding
Since you are reading this article as part of the Climate Finance series at Money. Daily. you can already surmise that climate change has a big part to play in the recent flooding.
A German climate scientist who grew up in the the hardest hit areas had this to say:
“I am surprised by how far it is above the previous record,” Dieter Gerten, professor of global change climatology and hydrology at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said. “We seem to be not just above normal but in domains we didn’t expect in terms of spatial extent and the speed it developed.”
Gerten, who grew up in a village in the affected area, said it occasionally flooded, but not like this week. Previous summer downpours have been…
