Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
If you hate protesters blocking roads in the name of taking immediate #ClimateAction, you’re going to really hate how Climate Change itself blocks roads.
A picture today from Valencia, Spain where they received 500mm of rain, a year’s worth, in one day on Tuesday. At least 70 dead.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
edit: More Pictures of the destruction. Valencia is the third largest city in Spain. It affected areas just to the south of it mainly as well as other areas of SouthEast Spain.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@MikeImBack unfortunately yes. Happened yesterday. The Turia river in Valencia.
Here's an article with over 50 pictures. The cars jammed in the street are in Sedaví, Valencia. A town just to the south of the city of Valencia.
https://elpais.com/espana/2024-10-29/la-dana-en-espana-en-imagenes.html
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
At least 70 people have died in the region. More are missing and expected perished.
The government has announced 3 days of mourning.
#ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #valencia #españa
Mike. 🩼🇨🇦
@chris holy crap that picture is actually real??
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
“With every fraction of a degree of fossil fuel warming, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, leading to heavier bursts of rainfall,” said Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London, who leads an international group of scientists who try to understand the role that warming plays in these type of events.
“No doubt about it, these explosive downpours were intensified by climate change.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99ry7x925eo
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
Hey @GottaLaff! You know how Project 2025 proposes to get rid of things like the NOAA and FEMA? Well the left-wing government in the Valencia region got replaced last year with a right wing government and lo-and-behold:
"Valencia’s regional government has also been forced to defend its decision to scrap the Valencia Emergency Unit, which had been set up by the previous government to tackle natural disasters such as flooding and wildfires.”
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
The town of Chiva, about 50km upland to the east of the City of Valencia is where they recorded the historic nearly 500mm of rain. There are mountains about 50-100km inland of the entire Spanish coast, so the rain accumulates into the river valleys there and floods to the coast.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
At least 95 dead in Spain so far.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
I geolocated the street where the cars are piled up to here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LMEMWszXFfZidGfs6
Here is a before and after, in nearly the exact same perspective.
@Jade @danneau
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
Just went and geolocated this picture for an after climate-disaster/before climate-disaster look on Google Maps. Map link below, the main highway V-30, that runs around the south side of the City of Valencia alonside the, often dry, riverbed of the Turia river. #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #valencia #españa #valencia #cambioclimatico #climático
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