France floods: 17 dead on Riviera after storms

[Trymos]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34437228

Violent storms and flooding have hit south-eastern France, killing at least 17 people with four more missing, officials say.

Three elderly people drowned when their retirement home near the city of Antibes was flooded.

Others died trapped in their cars in tunnels and underground car parks as the waters rose.

French President Francois Hollande announced a state of "natural disaster" in the affected region.

He thanked rescuers and expressed the "solidarity of the nation".

Mr Hollande offered condolences as he visited the retirement home in the town of Biot and urged residents in the region to remain cautious, saying: "It's not over."

And dumbasses still think climate change is bullstuff.

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[shitlord]

rip mr.lol

climate change has nothing to do with floods like this happening stop using them as leverage
use actual scientific evidence

[Trymos]

rip mr.lol

climate change has nothing to do with floods like this happening stop using them as leverage
use actual scientific evidence

I disagree, due to climate change anatica will start getting warmer and therefore start melting.

Since the snow is really starting to melt floods like this are starting to get common.

[SeventhSandwich]

climate change has nothing to do with floods like this happening stop using them as leverage
use actual scientific evidence

Climate change causes more extreme weather, but there's no way (as far as I know) to link specific weather events to climate change.

[shitlord]

uh looks like this is caused by rain
again stop trying to justify climate change with things like this
justify it with scientific evidence

[Trymos]

uh looks like this is caused by rain
again stop trying to justify climate change with things like this
justify it with scientific evidence

Climate change causes more extreme weather, but there's no way (as far as I know) to link specific weather events to climate change.

[shitlord]

Climate change causes more extreme weather, but there's no way (as far as I know) to link specific weather events to climate change.

[sir dooble]

Uh yeah, we can't link this specific event to climate change.

But we can link the general increase in rate of, and intensity of, weather events with changes to the global climate.

[SeventhSandwich]

Technically this weather event can be evidence of climate change, but only when looked at in the scope of a much larger weather pattern. For instance, if this flood is part of dozens of floods this decade that have occurred in far greater numbers than past decades.

[Doughboy]

I disagree, due to climate change anatica will start getting warmer and therefore start melting.

Since the snow is really starting to melt floods like this are starting to get common.

anatica, where the pongins live