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Heat, because it is silent and invisible, does not have the telegenic nature of these other big climate hazards like floods, hurricanes and fires, people do n’t have the awareness that’s necessary, and that’s why it’s killing more people than any other climate hazard. It needs P.R. and branding. – Baughman McLeod	Found on New York Times 1 year ago
As disruptive and as damaging as this year’s flooding has been, it’s still nowhere near close to what we foresee is the plausible worst-case scenario, we know that climate change is essentially putting the weather on steroids and giving us greater and greater chances of seeing these extremely heavy precipitation events and severe floods, even as we also see more severe droughts and that in the same part of the world. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’ve been governor during this pandemic, I’ve been governor during tornadoes and floods and -45 degree windchills and everything else. And we’ve lost a lot of people during those. – Andy Beshear	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I knew it would be hours before others could call her. And I thought she deserved to know, and we’re close right now to where I made that call, i’ve been governor during this pandemic, I’ve been governor during tornadoes and floods and -45 degree windchills and everything else. And we’ve lost a lot of people during those. – Andy Beshear	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Approximately 44% of the U.S. is at risk for flooding this spring, california’s historic snowpack, coupled with spring rain, is heightening the potential for spring floods. – Ed Clark	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This will lead to the chances for scattered flash floods, particularly over parts of central/eastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas on Tuesday night. – Climate Prediction Center	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them. – Peter Gleick	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These floods are having a devastating impact, many of these communities … are communities that do it tough, and the resources simply aren’t there on the ground, my government stands ready to provide whatever support is requested. – Callum Lamond/Reuters Albanese	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We haven’t seen the mega floods, but we have definitely seen hints of increasingly extreme precipitation even in the middle of what has otherwise been a period characterized by a pretty severe and persistent drought. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This area has been hit by floods four times in my life, but I remember three of them. But this time, the heavy rains worsened the situation. The water level was not so high in the past. – Mai Haleema	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Pakistan is living through one of the most serious climate catastrophes of the world, we are at this point ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events, which we have seen from early this year from an unrelenting cascade of heat waves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacier lake outburst events and now the monster monsoon of the decade. – Sherry Rehman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's likely we would have had extremely severe flooding even if there had never been a coal mine in Eastern Kentucky, the question that we don't know the answer to is : How much might this amount of disturbance have increased the severity of the current floods ? – Bill Haneberg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places. – Chen Chunyan	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
He( Usman) considered this a rare animal whose habitat had been damaged by floods. Umar Siddiq al Farizi.In thought it should be protected and not killed. – Umar Siddiq	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Scenic Drive, Grand Wash, [and] Capitol Gorge all experienced flash floods yesterday, these roads remain closed. Search [and] Rescue teams were able to rescue all visitors from these areas by 10 p.m. last night. – Capitol Reef National Park	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There were landslides in communities and then some of the victims were swept by floods. – Joemen Collado	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My butt is getting burnt. Oh, that hurt, on the exhaust, oh my God, I’m just — love you Australia, New Zealand, miss you guys. Thinking of everyone in the Queensland floods at the moment. But oh, I can’t believe it. – Scott McLaughlin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The second thing is that sea levels have risen, this means that storm floods, which also occur during such storms,( are) higher and therefore lead to greater damage than there would be without climate change. – Friederike Otto	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Filipinos are tough but this Super Typhoon is a bitter blow for millions of people who are still recovering from devastating storms, floods and Covid-19 in the past year. – Philippine Red Cross	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are feeling Climate Change. We are feeling Climate Change, we are feeling droughts, we are feeling floods. And this is becoming a crisis. It's leading to food insecurity, it's leading to more conflict within the area because people are competing for the little resources that are available. – John Payai Manyok	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Southern Live oak, Quercus Virginiana -- large canopy trees, can withstand occasional floods and hurricanes and are resistant to salt spray, provide habitat for birds and a variety of moss and bromeliads in South Florida. – Penni Redford	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I’ve experienced three floods like this so far, but this is the worst. – Toshimi Kusumoto	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are surrounded by evidence of the climate crisis -- the fires out West, the heat waves, the floods, everywhere you look, because of global warming, things are getting worse and worse. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some heavy rains and thunderstorms are expected to hit western Germany over the weekend, particularly on Saturday. However, under no circumstances should we see flash floods we have seen and experienced a week ago, the severe weather will be local and short term, like a normal summer thunderstorm. There could be storms, hailstones or heavy rain for a short time, but we won't see two days of continuous rain. – Andreas Friedrich	Found on CNN 3 years ago

Heat, because it is silent and invisible, does not have the telegenic nature of these other big climate hazards like floods, hurricanes and fires, people do n’t have the awareness that’s necessary, and that’s why it’s killing more people than any other climate hazard. It needs P.R. and branding.

– Baughman McLeod

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

As disruptive and as damaging as this year’s flooding has been, it’s still nowhere near close to what we foresee is the plausible worst-case scenario, we know that climate change is essentially putting the weather on steroids and giving us greater and greater chances of seeing these extremely heavy precipitation events and severe floods, even as we also see more severe droughts and that in the same part of the world.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve been governor during this pandemic, I’ve been governor during tornadoes and floods and -45 degree windchills and everything else. And we’ve lost a lot of people during those.

– Andy Beshear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I knew it would be hours before others could call her. And I thought she deserved to know, and we’re close right now to where I made that call, i’ve been governor during this pandemic, I’ve been governor during tornadoes and floods and -45 degree windchills and everything else. And we’ve lost a lot of people during those.

– Andy Beshear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Approximately 44% of the U.S. is at risk for flooding this spring, california’s historic snowpack, coupled with spring rain, is heightening the potential for spring floods.

– Ed Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This will lead to the chances for scattered flash floods, particularly over parts of central/eastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas on Tuesday night.

– Climate Prediction Center

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them.

– Peter Gleick

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These floods are having a devastating impact, many of these communities … are communities that do it tough, and the resources simply aren’t there on the ground, my government stands ready to provide whatever support is requested.

– Callum Lamond/Reuters Albanese

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We haven’t seen the mega floods, but we have definitely seen hints of increasingly extreme precipitation even in the middle of what has otherwise been a period characterized by a pretty severe and persistent drought.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This area has been hit by floods four times in my life, but I remember three of them. But this time, the heavy rains worsened the situation. The water level was not so high in the past.

– Mai Haleema

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Pakistan is living through one of the most serious climate catastrophes of the world, we are at this point ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events, which we have seen from early this year from an unrelenting cascade of heat waves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacier lake outburst events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.

– Sherry Rehman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's likely we would have had extremely severe flooding even if there had never been a coal mine in Eastern Kentucky, the question that we don't know the answer to is : How much might this amount of disturbance have increased the severity of the current floods ?

– Bill Haneberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places.

– Chen Chunyan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

He( Usman) considered this a rare animal whose habitat had been damaged by floods. Umar Siddiq al Farizi.In thought it should be protected and not killed.

– Umar Siddiq

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Scenic Drive, Grand Wash, [and] Capitol Gorge all experienced flash floods yesterday, these roads remain closed. Search [and] Rescue teams were able to rescue all visitors from these areas by 10 p.m. last night.

– Capitol Reef National Park

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There were landslides in communities and then some of the victims were swept by floods.

– Joemen Collado

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My butt is getting burnt. Oh, that hurt, on the exhaust, oh my God, I’m just — love you Australia, New Zealand, miss you guys. Thinking of everyone in the Queensland floods at the moment. But oh, I can’t believe it.

– Scott McLaughlin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The second thing is that sea levels have risen, this means that storm floods, which also occur during such storms,( are) higher and therefore lead to greater damage than there would be without climate change.

– Friederike Otto

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Filipinos are tough but this Super Typhoon is a bitter blow for millions of people who are still recovering from devastating storms, floods and Covid-19 in the past year.

– Philippine Red Cross

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are feeling Climate Change. We are feeling Climate Change, we are feeling droughts, we are feeling floods. And this is becoming a crisis. It's leading to food insecurity, it's leading to more conflict within the area because people are competing for the little resources that are available.

– John Payai Manyok

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Southern Live oak, Quercus Virginiana -- large canopy trees, can withstand occasional floods and hurricanes and are resistant to salt spray, provide habitat for birds and a variety of moss and bromeliads in South Florida.

– Penni Redford

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I’ve experienced three floods like this so far, but this is the worst.

– Toshimi Kusumoto

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We are surrounded by evidence of the climate crisis -- the fires out West, the heat waves, the floods, everywhere you look, because of global warming, things are getting worse and worse.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Some heavy rains and thunderstorms are expected to hit western Germany over the weekend, particularly on Saturday. However, under no circumstances should we see flash floods we have seen and experienced a week ago, the severe weather will be local and short term, like a normal summer thunderstorm. There could be storms, hailstones or heavy rain for a short time, but we won't see two days of continuous rain.

– Andreas Friedrich

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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