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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't recall ever seeing a headline about floods in Switzerland before. Climate change is real people!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Climate change is real but just because you didn't see a headline doesn't mean that an event didn't happen. A quick check shows headlines about flooding in Switzerland happening in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 2018, 2017...basically every year I checked as far back as 1999 with some of them being FAR more severe than the one in the article up above.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this!

However maybe this time there is more awareness? Or the news about it is more widespread?

That’s why I saw the headline. I’m not living in Europe by the way. So the headlines where I’m at is usually political or guns. If you know what I mean.