Praying for Spain during these difficult times as they face devastating floods and extreme weather. My thoughts are with everyone affected, wishing strength, safety, and swift recovery for all 🙏 ❤
Whilst we can’t mitigate against 1 years rain in 1 day as a result of whatever the cause, extreme weather events. We can however pay a lot more attention to basic stuff that can, over landscape scale, help to reduce the creation of flash flooding. As a farmer I notice that vast chunks of southern Spain is in olive tree production. The current farming methods leave the ground beneath the tree bare and tilled(and treated heavily with herbicide) This is the breeding ground for run off during heavy rain which leads to flash flooding and devastating soil erosion. If the understory beneath the trees was allowed to grow indigenous vegetation and build up a mat of growing plants and their residues it would slow the release of water into streams and river systems. The growing roots would hold the soil together and help clean the water. This is basic hydrological stuff and easy to action
I went there earlier this year for 20 days and there is not a ton of natural forests left. And the ones that were left were absolutely amazing. They are planting a lot of trees but ground is going to not absorb any water.
Outside of Florida and North Carolina, the entirety of the contiguous USA is experiencing very dry conditions. Here on the East Coast, we are seeing a record dry spell that gave some areas six week periods of no rain. This is extremely abnormal for us and frankly scary, there are now calls for water rationing in areas between Philadelphia and NYC. There also have been forest fires, creating heavy smog conditions across the region. This is Climate Change, weather patters get stuck and persist for long times. It'll only get worse, ever more so considering my brain-rotted fellow citizens just voted tRump back into power. Human civilization truly is on the edge of oblivion.
I’ve seen MAGA folks saying, “I’m such-and-such years old and I remember years when….” “This is normal weather over time.” My response is: This is why we rely on science. Because my memories are different from yours.
I'm a little way to the East of Malaga, and relatively lucky. I have a small fruit farm on the side of a canyon. Torrential rain washed several tons of my olive grove down onto the citrus terrace below, even though I´m 750 metres above sea level and unlikely to be flooded. After a summer when we worried about fire, many will find the mountains rearranging themselves, paths disappearing and gardens unusually prone to gravity. My local mini supermarket is making it easy to put a few extra euros on your bill, which go to those who have lost everything. The scale of the damage, loss and heartbreak is beyond my capacity to comprehend, and my admiration for the Spanish people is boundless. Spain has recently defied the EU to form trade links with China, now we need investment and a massive rebuilding program -- I wonder where it will come from ...
We are east of Malaga city as well and we are just as concerned about rock slides, mud slides and the like as we are about the rising water. After years of drought it breaks my heart to see all that fresh water running into the sea - we definitely need better management.
@@clmclachlan Yes, and how many need to relocate to places less affected by climate change ? I live by the Rio Lanjaron, and the water coming past me is muddy, as is the river through Órgiva, and it will silt up behind the dams between me and Motril so they will appear full, but be very shallow. Dredging them is apparently not an option. So as things worsen, the storage diminishes. Ironically a massive new road is being built from Lanjarón to the motorway, to facilitate the extraction of spring water in huge lorries, to be sold in supermarkets --- rather than produce food here. Mmmm Danone ...
It's an act of God. Ireland and Spain have both taken Israel to the ICJ, there might be a message somewhere. Don't upset God's chosen people who have survived nearly five thousand years.
Spain is beautiful country. My heartiest condolences to the family who's lost their love one. Hope soon they will over come all the hard time they are passing through.
@@tigrehermanothey are not proper dams, just old small walls without any significance today. This is too much water in an extra dry land. And not talking about building in the path of the flows
@@tigrehermano try to find real information. 71% of the barriers removed were wall of less than 2 meters high. 25% beetween 2 and 5 meters and only 4% more than 5 meters. All of them obsolet or in bad conditions. Any real dam destroyed, just propagando from mehationists.
A difficult subject but an example of how one can not trust anything that the BBC puts out. Whether it be climate, politics, sport or social the BBC puts all its efforts into fostering controversy. The kindest thing one can say is that they are lazy, greedy, inept journalist. Try to say anything else and it becomes very sinister.
We also know the Spanish government has removed 131 dams and flood defences in compliance with EU insane directives. And has Spain in the past had this level of rain and please look back further than the 1960s.
@@spiritdancer1699 every 0.1°C of warming allows the atmosphere to hold more water, resulting in much increased risk of both drought and flash flooding.
Too many mistakes speaks to incompetence of civil engineers who pile cement and reroute water ways. Drainage systems must be priority for the short-term. Best wishes.
@@Barbara-j2p Bombs don’t do as much harm as exhaust gasses from cars and industry and burning coal. Ice core samples from Greenland clearly show the pollution starting during the Industrial Revolution.
What about the floods in Bosnia, Eastern USA, the Caribbean and Eastern Asia. Media only talks one story to make it seem like it's just the occasional problem!
You having a laugh? Two weeks ago it was wall to wall media coverage of a Florida storm that hardly did a thing. This storm is a once in a generation event that has taken hundreds of lives and has been described by some as the most lethal weather event in recent European history. Have a word with yourself. Be humble and show some respect for the dead!
NO media channel can cover EVERY SINGLE event of news around the bloody world. Would you expect a news channel to cover every death in the world also?????? c'mon grow up.
I live in Malaga and hate how they dramatize things.... Valencia is and was very bad. Malaga was "bad" for one day, since all protocols seemed to work fine and the hospital that had the lower floor flooded moved everyone to the up levels before, water pumps worked very well, people prepared great for this one since we also got the alert way before. I just came from Malaga center now and its like if nothing had happened. Towns are recovering well and most was cars getting wet or maybe have to dry or fix motors, but nothing mayor like Valencia. Please stop selling bad news only!!! and say how well protocols worked when people listen and politicians do their job!! and don't mix it with Valencia images, its not fair to them or us. Our politicians suck but for real, people did it very well this time and government workers seemed to be efficient after Valencias' dissaster
A cargo plain carrying car parts from Japan was flying over Ireland a few years ago and broke up in the sky. Paddy turned to Mick and said , will you look at that. It’s raining Datson cogs!!
Over here in the Philippines we’re on to our 4th typhoon in less than 2 weeks. 🥲🙃🫠 and governments and powerful countries are scrambling over wars and going to space instead of tackling climate change first.
@@rrsee-zk3zu It's always a good test of someone's honesty when you pose a question where the answer is known. If they don't answer, it's because it damns them. The Philippines experiences about 20 typhoons/tropical storms annually. Records began in 1945, and 1993 holds the highest annual total, when PAGASA named more than 30 storms. That was 31 years ago. 2013 saw the most destructive typhoon. That was 11 years ago. My nationality doesn't matter. What does matter is that I state only the truth.
We have 5 typhoons in a month in the Philippines recently. That is not normal for a country that is frequently visited by typhoons. We have no time to recover.
we love it that people like you think co2 is what's causing the change in earth's temperature and that climate change is not a natural occurrence that has been ongoing since the dawn of planet Earth over 4 billion years ago
The climate always changes only fools would believe a planet would have a stable weather pattern. So your belief is there were no floods before the use of fossil fuels. Get real.
@matthewbaker2573 I've never mentioned Co2 ya muppet.... The climate is changing, man made or natural, it's changing and peeps who like you wanna politicize it are gonna get swept away by mother nature. Build your cardboard house on the river banks, I'm off to the hills.
@@matthewbaker2573Why would we believe a science denier? No one denies that climate change existed since the start, you’re the one denying what speeds it up.
The EU mandated the removal of dams. That didn't help the situation. Plus, in Valencia houses were built on flood plains. No wonder there was so much flooding there. At least we got a red alert this time and people were evacuated, schools closed and people were warned to move to higher levels in their homes. Anyway, it's clean up time again and people are helping out where they can.
If you look at video footage of the river in Benamorgosa you can see the reason for the flooding and it has nothing to do with removing dams - there was never a dam on that river. If you look at the river footage that's been on many sites you will see what looks like canes floating on the surface. That's because at this time of year workmen cut back the cane that grows along the sides of many local roads - they do it now because the burning season starts in mid-October. In the 17th and 18th Century the Axarquia was the principal region in Europe for growing sugarcane - to process the cane you have to heat it. They used wood taken from the hills - after a century or two they had de-forested the region entirely and the industry died in the 19th Century. But nobody replanted the trees - until farmers started planting mango and avocado trees over the last thirty years the only trees you'd see were olive and almond trees, and the odd pine tree. No trees means less water is absorbed and there is nothing to slow the run-off.
@@MarciaThomas-dh9tm Malaga is the subject of the video. So making general statements blaming the removal of the dams (and I am unaware of any evidence that supports your assertion that dam removal made any difference to the floods in either Valencia or Malaga) is simply alarmist claptrap.
Yeah, but we as human kind obviously don't want to fight against climate crisis 😥. These events will be the normal, if we don't reduce out climate emissions. People, now it is not the best time to bring more kids into this world. Please consider this development.
If only the EU hadn’t forced the removal of the dam system put in place to deal with these common rain storms… Of course, the “experts” then turn up and quote climate change. I extent my sympathy to those caught up in the flooding and gaslighting.
I live in Bulgaria. Today is the first rainy day since 9 months. For months in my city we have water only for several hours a day. It is terrible. Compleatly different weather from what was 15 years ago. I also can't grow almost anything in my garden anymore.
ua-cam.com/users/livewCUxCNbJRC8?si=AsdzkuSKYGoYjTW4 Stop watching BBC clowns and start watching the people that actually tell you what is happening instead of just the part that fits their agenda. You're the nutter and noone says climate change isn't real. Climate alarmism is the real hoax.
These floods are mainly due to an EU directive. The EU banned dredging of dykes etc and the destruction of dams. Consequently, there is no natural drainage for extreme weather. These weather patterns have existed for centuries.
@@michelleheart9663 they have happened in the past, but very rarely. Will you conceed the climate is changing if this happens again a few times in the next decade? Exceptional floods have been happening all around the world, do you disagree?
@ of course there have been floods all round the world. Climate change is only partly responsible. (Climate change has occurred for millions of years by the way). But mankind has created its own problems by building on historical flood planes, decreasing the amount of dredging of dykes, rivers etc. Something the EU enforced across Europe, with the results being the current crises in Spain.
Around this time last year, the area was exceptionally dry and warm. The landscape can hardly receive any moisture at all. Also, curious interviewing an Englishman who precisely refers to "tea time" for happenings...
The solution to this problem is to use ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) to reduce the temperature of the ocean surface which will reduce evaporation and thus the potential for floods like the one shown in this video. Carbon neutral electricity will be generated at the same time. If people had the willingness and ability to fix problem the world would be a way better place for everyone.
I wasn't aware the Spanish governmet was reponsible for the weather!!!! And the authorities in Valencia have been denying the climate crisis for years!!!
One of the consequences of right wing climate change denial. Sticking their fingers in their ears and hoping it will just all go away... it's "only weather" after all 🤔🙄
@@matthewbaker2573 "why isn't the rest of the world having major shifts in their weather?" They are. Check the news. Flooding in Bosnia, Columbia, Panama, and on an on. Global warming has only just started. In a few years these extreme weather events will be the new normal.
It never rains in Southern California, did you mean that song? We have every year rainfall in decent sizes in Spain since forever but it is nothing comparing with Germany or the UK.
To the people of the country left behind, they would be expat or emigrant. To the people of the country where they have arrived, they would be called immigrants. It’s like ‘up’ and ‘down’, ‘in’ and ‘out’. They mean different things. Coming from Latin, one means to move into and the other means to move on from/out from. Therefore, as a BBC report, from the UK, the correct term would be ‘emigrant’ or expat, as they are not moving into the UK
@@geemo4284 But there's a difference in how brits use theses words. For them expat is a status giving them rights all over the world, no matter what the laws of the country. British Empire's mindset. But "expat" has absolutely no legal meaning, thus don't give them any right whatsoever. The majority of them just cannot understand that.
Remember, floods happen because we put too much concrete down in cities and towns. Before cities and towns were turned into concrete jungles, floods were very rare in cities and towns around the world. There are many ways to deal with this through city planning, but no will to actually accomplish anything. Osaka has had a great response that features more green space (water drains into grass) and aquifers forced into building code under every home. There are so many things we could do...but alas the draw of private jets and 55'000 square foot mansions and real estate investments, and stock options beckon.
So if everything is fine it’s thanks to god, and if things go horribly wrong whose fault is it? Because according to that collection of Bronze Age and Iron Age mythology that people like you revere god created evil too.
@@0utcastAussie100% fake. Has been removed old small walls in rivers no lonher needed. Nothing to be with real dams. It's just another fake propaganda from far ultra right groups.
It's not about smart or not. The default position of the phone is portrait, not landscape, so it's easier to hold the phone with one hand in portrait position than holding the phone in landscape.
@@RICKONORATO It's not ridiculous at all, because it's a fact that you can prove. When recording in portrait position, your entire cellphone is in the palm of your hand, with all five fingers gripping the edge, while when recording in landscape position you can only rely on your little finger to support it below and your index finger to press on top. The risk is that the cellphone can easily slip out of your hand because it is one-sided. If you're a filmmaker and you've done it a lot, then it's something you're used to. Not everyone is as good as you.
Strange comment. The overwhelming majority of people are 'alright' as you term it. Those most affected live at the foot of mountains and close to rivers which haven't been able to cope with the massive amount of water falling from the skies
This message brought to you by Global Warming, I want to thank all of you for burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, diesel, etc and making this possible.
I am going to laugh because this statement is full of **** . Climate change?Yes, because of the things stated above,No.Because climate change existed way before these things were ever used!How about we look at a magnetic pole shift!
I recall from 30 odd years ago on holiday I noticed various huge storm drainage channels through Spanish cities to the sea. At the time I thought they were excessive but on the last day as we were departing there was a huge storm and all these channels were filled with raging torrents. Spanish storms are NOT something new. Devastating, yes, but stop the climate change hysteria nonsense.
I was just telling my husband about that. I used to watch those Escape to the Continent shows. Lots of Brits retired to Spain. I wonder how many returned due to Brexit. And now this!
Praying for Spain during these difficult times as they face devastating floods and extreme weather. My thoughts are with everyone affected, wishing strength, safety, and swift recovery for all 🙏 ❤
my magical wishes to them all too. hopefully if we put our hands together and think really hard they will be ok.
@@Deathwish026 it's not magical wish but prayer. they need government help also.
@@Deathwish026 Some have to tell the whole world just how pious they are.
(And it´s cheaper than helping).
My god Spain can’t get a break, I’m Irish and have a friend in Granada visiting, he said he’s never seen rain like it. Thinking of our Spanish friends
Sending prayers to the people of Spain. I hope things improve.
Why sending prayers? Your merciful Lord already made it happen.
Send money, like decent folk do.
It will happen every year due to climate change..
I'm so sorry to see this again.
Take care, beautiful people of Spain.
Sending love.
🫂❤️🩹
This is terrible - stay safe dear people ❤
I hope Spain can improve things for next year, heart goes out. ❤❤
So sad , to see this much destruction is horrible. God bless you Spain. Hoping this doesn't continue .
Whilst we can’t mitigate against 1 years rain in 1 day as a result of whatever the cause, extreme weather events.
We can however pay a lot more attention to basic stuff that can, over landscape scale, help to reduce the creation of flash flooding.
As a farmer I notice that vast chunks of southern Spain is in olive tree production. The current farming methods leave the ground beneath the tree bare and tilled(and treated heavily with herbicide) This is the breeding ground for run off during heavy rain which leads to flash flooding and devastating soil erosion.
If the understory beneath the trees was allowed to grow indigenous vegetation and build up a mat of growing plants and their residues it would slow the release of water into streams and river systems. The growing roots would hold the soil together and help clean the water.
This is basic hydrological stuff and easy to action
I went there earlier this year for 20 days and there is not a ton of natural forests left. And the ones that were left were absolutely amazing. They are planting a lot of trees but ground is going to not absorb any water.
I feel so sorry for the people of Spain, in several areas
Outside of Florida and North Carolina, the entirety of the contiguous USA is experiencing very dry conditions. Here on the East Coast, we are seeing a record dry spell that gave some areas six week periods of no rain. This is extremely abnormal for us and frankly scary, there are now calls for water rationing in areas between Philadelphia and NYC. There also have been forest fires, creating heavy smog conditions across the region. This is Climate Change, weather patters get stuck and persist for long times. It'll only get worse, ever more so considering my brain-rotted fellow citizens just voted tRump back into power. Human civilization truly is on the edge of oblivion.
👏👍
I’ve seen MAGA folks saying, “I’m such-and-such years old and I remember years when….” “This is normal weather over time.” My response is: This is why we rely on science. Because my memories are different from yours.
The world is a beautiful place but it has a disease called the human race.
I'm a little way to the East of Malaga, and relatively lucky. I have a small fruit farm on the side of a canyon.
Torrential rain washed several tons of my olive grove down onto the citrus terrace below, even though I´m 750 metres above sea level and unlikely to be flooded.
After a summer when we worried about fire, many will find the mountains rearranging themselves, paths disappearing and gardens unusually prone to gravity.
My local mini supermarket is making it easy to put a few extra euros on your bill, which go to those who have lost everything.
The scale of the damage, loss and heartbreak is beyond my capacity to comprehend, and my admiration for the Spanish people is boundless.
Spain has recently defied the EU to form trade links with China, now we need investment and a massive rebuilding program --
I wonder where it will come from ...
We are east of Malaga city as well and we are just as concerned about rock slides, mud slides and the like as we are about the rising water. After years of drought it breaks my heart to see all that fresh water running into the sea - we definitely need better management.
prayers to you and eveyone affected by climate change!
@@clmclachlan
Yes, and how many need to relocate to places less affected by climate change ?
I live by the Rio Lanjaron, and the water coming past me is muddy, as is the river through Órgiva, and it will silt up behind the dams between me and Motril so they will appear full, but be very shallow. Dredging them is apparently not an option.
So as things worsen, the storage diminishes.
Ironically a massive new road is being built from Lanjarón to the motorway, to facilitate the extraction of spring water in huge lorries, to be sold in supermarkets --- rather than produce food here. Mmmm Danone ...
@@NeekoLsh
Your god has no hands but yours.
Get saved by Jesus.
Now. The Rapture of tge Church is soon.
Irish 🇮🇪 Blessings and sincere affection to the couageous people of Spain in these horrible moments.❤❤
It's an act of God. Ireland and Spain have both taken Israel to the ICJ, there might be a message somewhere. Don't upset God's chosen people who have survived nearly five thousand years.
@@anthonybernstein9698 From Spain: Free Palestine
@@anthonybernstein9698 Yeah, I remember your God being there for Israel on October 7th. He even sent his angels from the sky.
Yeah right Irish people always saying "Rain Rain go to Spain dont come back again"lol
@@joeterra.tMaybe God was on holiday during the Holocaust as well.
This is the third time a storm has hit Spain, 1000s evacuated, almost 300 dead, please pray for Spain
Perhaps if they didn’t remove their flood barriers, they wouldn’t need any help
AllanHinde u r a BOT
@@AllanHinde-mb2pr 🤡
@@AllanHinde-mb2pr Yes they would, flash floods are happening all around the world. Try to follow.
Idiot.
Spain is beautiful country. My heartiest condolences to the family who's lost their love one. Hope soon they will over come all the hard time they are passing through.
This is 2 weeks after those events, and they have more horror to contend with? My heart goes out to them.
google "how many dams have spain demolished since 2020?"
@@tigrehermanothey are not proper dams, just old small walls without any significance today. This is too much water in an extra dry land. And not talking about building in the path of the flows
@@imjatse the info is on the internet, stop talking your butt out
@@tigrehermano try to find real information. 71% of the barriers removed were wall of less than 2 meters high. 25% beetween 2 and 5 meters and only 4% more than 5 meters. All of them obsolet or in bad conditions. Any real dam destroyed, just propagando from mehationists.
@@tigrehermanocountries across the world are removing old weirs that are no longer helpful because they are dangerous
you are using old videos from Valencia floods not from Málaga
A difficult subject but an example of how one can not trust anything that the BBC puts out. Whether it be climate, politics, sport or social the BBC puts all its efforts into fostering controversy. The kindest thing one can say is that they are lazy, greedy, inept journalist. Try to say anything else and it becomes very sinister.
Thank you!
We also know the Spanish government has removed 131 dams and flood defences in compliance with EU insane directives. And has Spain in the past had this level of rain and please look back further than the 1960s.
We just had the same kind of rain in the South of Brazil. Climate change seems to be worsening.
lol no such thing you melt
OMG that's horrible how much of my money do I have to give so that someone will fix this?
@@spiritdancer1699 every 0.1°C of warming allows the atmosphere to hold more water, resulting in much increased risk of both drought and flash flooding.
Nothing to do with Morocco cloud seeding then??
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT..
I will pray for Spain and the people affected.
to who??
Weather patters have changes significantly & permanently
Due to the Climate crisis
I hope Trump see this Video his Strange Politic Answer we had no Climate Change !
@@Willburys
We have no MAN MADE Climate Change.
Unless you are onboard with Weather Manipulation HAARP transmitters ?
@@WillburysTrump is ignorant and doesn’t understand science at all and not much of anything else😰
just a few past decades, in hundread years there might be new ice age
In 2021, Spain blew up 108 dams, according to figures from the Dam Removal project, coordinated by World Fish Migration Foundation.
Too many mistakes speaks to incompetence of civil engineers who pile cement and reroute water ways. Drainage systems must be priority for the short-term. Best wishes.
Eco engineering at its worst.
What rainfall rate do you propose they design for? What an uneducated comment
@@seethebutter Infrastructure wasn't designed to handle such extreme weather events.
Praying for the people of spain, from sri lanka❤
I am waiting winter, winter is not still arrive in Himalayas mouthain state of India in November month. Weather is so hot like August month.
Same in Ireland, normaly would expect to see lots of rain and cold temperatures but it's been very warm for this time of year
@anthonyyoung5447 bro I am forgetting about snow now.
@@anthonyyoung5447 Just last week it was 18 degrees centigrade in the North of Scotland.
@@kellydalstok8900 That is mad, I compared November temps for the last five years and Ireland is 3 degress above the highest temps for November
@@kellydalstok8900
Yeah? And this week?
Praying for Spain
i Just Watched a documentary about being in a bad drought and heatwave with water shortages .WOW.
Crazy weather 😮 sorry for people in affected areas 😢
Irresponsible destruction of forests is also due to global warming! 🧐
How do all the bombs and explosions used in war influence climate? There sure have been a lot lately , also forest fires.
@@Barbara-j2p Bombs don’t do as much harm as exhaust gasses from cars and industry and burning coal. Ice core samples from Greenland clearly show the pollution starting during the Industrial Revolution.
Yes trees help slow the water down on the hillsides. No Trees no breaks.
What about the floods in Bosnia, Eastern USA, the Caribbean and Eastern Asia. Media only talks one story to make it seem like it's just the occasional problem!
All these floods will be a reason to bring the world leaders together to find a solution which has been sitting in the drawers.
You having a laugh? Two weeks ago it was wall to wall media coverage of a Florida storm that hardly did a thing. This storm is a once in a generation event that has taken hundreds of lives and has been described by some as the most lethal weather event in recent European history. Have a word with yourself. Be humble and show some respect for the dead!
We have floods in the Philippines too
NO media channel can cover EVERY SINGLE event of news around the bloody world.
Would you expect a news channel to cover every death in the world also?????? c'mon grow up.
Also Australia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Mozambique.
I live in Malaga and hate how they dramatize things.... Valencia is and was very bad. Malaga was "bad" for one day, since all protocols seemed to work fine and the hospital that had the lower floor flooded moved everyone to the up levels before, water pumps worked very well, people prepared great for this one since we also got the alert way before. I just came from Malaga center now and its like if nothing had happened. Towns are recovering well and most was cars getting wet or maybe have to dry or fix motors, but nothing mayor like Valencia. Please stop selling bad news only!!! and say how well protocols worked when people listen and politicians do their job!! and don't mix it with Valencia images, its not fair to them or us. Our politicians suck but for real, people did it very well this time and government workers seemed to be efficient after Valencias' dissaster
This year weather ☁️ being crazy and I feel so sorry for Spain.
I have never seen torrential rains like that! It absolutely rained cats and dogs ! God bless the evacuees 😢😢
A cargo plain carrying car parts from Japan was flying over Ireland a few years ago and broke up in the sky. Paddy turned to Mick and said , will you look at that. It’s raining Datson cogs!!
Over here in the Philippines we’re on to our 4th typhoon in less than 2 weeks. 🥲🙃🫠 and governments and powerful countries are scrambling over wars and going to space instead of tackling climate change first.
We could definitely stop climate change AND go to space if the political will was there.
And how many did you get before "climate change" was invented?
@@Mark-l9k9q American?
@@rrsee-zk3zu
How many did you get before "climate change" was invented?
@@rrsee-zk3zu
It's always a good test of someone's honesty when you pose a question where the answer is known. If they don't answer, it's because it damns them.
The Philippines experiences about 20 typhoons/tropical storms annually. Records began in 1945, and 1993 holds the highest annual total, when PAGASA named more than 30 storms. That was 31 years ago.
2013 saw the most destructive typhoon. That was 11 years ago.
My nationality doesn't matter. What does matter is that I state only the truth.
Lord bless and protect all the Spanish people and comfort the victims of these floods Amen
Here we go again..
Is this a normal thing? Everybody makes it out to be the end of the world.
@@towerofresonance4877No it’s not normal.
@@MULTIMAN-MUSIC But it is not the end of the world.
We have 5 typhoons in a month in the Philippines recently. That is not normal for a country that is frequently visited by typhoons. We have no time to recover.
@@angelf2966 You have to be either pretty thick or short minded to say that… once the currents and oceans shift their course we are f…ed…
VICTOR WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU AND THE ANIMALS 😿😿😾🐕🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩🐩🐩🐩🦊
108 dam removals in spain😮
That's brutal. Poor people. Here's hoping they can heal and their Government help as much as needed.
Praying for everyone.... life was hard but now this😢😢😢
I love it how the nutters think the climate isn't changing.
we love it that people like you think co2 is what's causing the change in earth's temperature and that climate change is not a natural occurrence that has been ongoing since the dawn of planet Earth over 4 billion years ago
The climate always changes only fools would believe a planet would have a stable weather pattern. So your belief is there were no floods before the use of fossil fuels. Get real.
@matthewbaker2573 I've never mentioned Co2 ya muppet.... The climate is changing, man made or natural, it's changing and peeps who like you wanna politicize it are gonna get swept away by mother nature.
Build your cardboard house on the river banks, I'm off to the hills.
And i love how they cannot resist to show off their stupidity by denying climate change... LOL
@@matthewbaker2573Why would we believe a science denier? No one denies that climate change existed since the start, you’re the one denying what speeds it up.
The EU mandated the removal of dams. That didn't help the situation. Plus, in Valencia houses were built on flood plains. No wonder there was so much flooding there. At least we got a red alert this time and people were evacuated, schools closed and people were warned to move to higher levels in their homes. Anyway, it's clean up time again and people are helping out where they can.
If you look at video footage of the river in Benamorgosa you can see the reason for the flooding and it has nothing to do with removing dams - there was never a dam on that river. If you look at the river footage that's been on many sites you will see what looks like canes floating on the surface. That's because at this time of year workmen cut back the cane that grows along the sides of many local roads - they do it now because the burning season starts in mid-October. In the 17th and 18th Century the Axarquia was the principal region in Europe for growing sugarcane - to process the cane you have to heat it. They used wood taken from the hills - after a century or two they had de-forested the region entirely and the industry died in the 19th Century. But nobody replanted the trees - until farmers started planting mango and avocado trees over the last thirty years the only trees you'd see were olive and almond trees, and the odd pine tree. No trees means less water is absorbed and there is nothing to slow the run-off.
Really that is insane and evil😥
@@MalcolmRose-l3b That is Malaga not Valencia
@@MarciaThomas-dh9tm Malaga is the subject of the video. So making general statements blaming the removal of the dams (and I am unaware of any evidence that supports your assertion that dam removal made any difference to the floods in either Valencia or Malaga) is simply alarmist claptrap.
@MalcolmRose-l3b Do your due diligence before making sweeping statements. You don't get points if you don't get the point!
An ever changing planet 🌏.
She said that they had to go home at 6pm, which isn't the same than go home. They can stay but until 6pm
Yeah, but we as human kind obviously don't want to fight against climate crisis 😥. These events will be the normal, if we don't reduce out climate emissions.
People, now it is not the best time to bring more kids into this world. Please consider this development.
the problem is the increase in methane, not co2. media expects people to not understand science and it's winning
We need to plants more trees and control pollution can over safe us because it is due to global warming.
In Estepona/Marbella area, the greedy Spaniards keep on building.
do plants consume methane? it aint co2 causing this
@@matthewbaker2573 Methane degrades into co2 after about 10 years. Trees or rather plants still help.
@@raclark2730 gotta be careful. Too much oxygen in the atmosphere will trigger an ice age. A far bigger problem
@@matthewbaker2573 Oh FFS not even touching that. 😂
If only the EU hadn’t forced the removal of the dam system put in place to deal with these common rain storms…
Of course, the “experts” then turn up and quote climate change.
I extent my sympathy to those caught up in the flooding and gaslighting.
It all started with the fake moon landing, since then the illuminati control everything. Fetch your tin foil, you have to block the microchips
Why so many floods around the world 😢
wake up
Trust me I'm a awake. The question was to get people thinking
I live in Bulgaria. Today is the first rainy day since 9 months. For months in my city we have water only for several hours a day. It is terrible. Compleatly different weather from what was 15 years ago. I also can't grow almost anything in my garden anymore.
Judgement
@@ElijahDavis41 Climate change. Throw megatons of CO2 into the air for over a century, you see the results. The sin of greed, if you like.
"BeCaUsE ClImAtE ChAnGe IsNt ReAl" they said
Tending to infrastructure may offer more immediate results.
ua-cam.com/users/livewCUxCNbJRC8?si=AsdzkuSKYGoYjTW4 Stop watching BBC clowns and start watching the people that actually tell you what is happening instead of just the part that fits their agenda. You're the nutter and noone says climate change isn't real. Climate alarmism is the real hoax.
These floods are mainly due to an EU directive. The EU banned dredging of dykes etc and the destruction of dams. Consequently, there is no natural drainage for extreme weather. These weather patterns have existed for centuries.
@@michelleheart9663 they have happened in the past, but very rarely. Will you conceed the climate is changing if this happens again a few times in the next decade? Exceptional floods have been happening all around the world, do you disagree?
@ of course there have been floods all round the world. Climate change is only partly responsible. (Climate change has occurred for millions of years by the way). But mankind has created its own problems by building on historical flood planes, decreasing the amount of dredging of dykes, rivers etc. Something the EU enforced across Europe, with the results being the current crises in Spain.
May God bless them
Costa lluviosa!
That's crazy, be safe and dry spain.
Around this time last year, the area was exceptionally dry and warm. The landscape can hardly receive any moisture at all.
Also, curious interviewing an Englishman who precisely refers to "tea time" for happenings...
The solution to this problem is to use ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) to reduce the temperature of the ocean surface which will reduce evaporation and thus the potential for floods like the one shown in this video. Carbon neutral electricity will be generated at the same time.
If people had the willingness and ability to fix problem the world would be a way better place for everyone.
My thoughts are with you I don't know if your government is viva Hispania
Tell the public about the EU’s policy on removing dams and letting rivers flow….over 300 of them in Spain…
Meanwhile in the real world countries across the world are removing old dams which no longer have use, that have become dangerous
Ahh !! A hallucination to have been seeing this fury unabated . Impossible for mankind .
I wasn't aware the Spanish governmet was reponsible for the weather!!!! And the authorities in Valencia have been denying the climate crisis for years!!!
why isn't the rest of the world having major shifts in their weather?
@@matthewbaker2573 - They are!
@@matthewbaker2573 Seems to me more a case of someone not paying attention
One of the consequences of right wing climate change denial. Sticking their fingers in their ears and hoping it will just all go away... it's "only weather" after all 🤔🙄
@@matthewbaker2573 "why isn't the rest of the world having major shifts in their weather?"
They are. Check the news. Flooding in Bosnia, Columbia, Panama, and on an on.
Global warming has only just started. In a few years these extreme weather events will be the new normal.
People used to say "it doesn't rain in Spain" how wrong they are now 😢
They also said, it used to be cold this time of the year.
It never rains in Southern California, did you mean that song? We have every year rainfall in decent sizes in Spain since forever but it is nothing comparing with Germany or the UK.
It actually does rain in Spain but it's mainly on the Plains.
@@thedave7760thats just a line from a movie. please stop quoting this bs
@@soy_red I live in Spain I know what I'm talking about, go do your homework child.
Here in the Philippines, we have like 7 super typhoons in less than a month. So.....
Not again! Those poor people…
Wow Spain just cant seem to get a break
This is awful. So sorry for Spain and it's people
Stay safe everyone 👍
I know destruction from earthquakes and tornadoes are usually more destructive but floods are awful.
An expat! Sorry you mean immigrant don't you?
Yes, a non UE-member inmigrant.
yes a third country foreigner
He's white, so it's expat
To the people of the country left behind, they would be expat or emigrant. To the people of the country where they have arrived, they would be called immigrants. It’s like ‘up’ and ‘down’, ‘in’ and ‘out’. They mean different things. Coming from Latin, one means to move into and the other means to move on from/out from. Therefore, as a BBC report, from the UK, the correct term would be ‘emigrant’ or expat, as they are not moving into the UK
@@geemo4284 But there's a difference in how brits use theses words. For them expat is a status giving them rights all over the world, no matter what the laws of the country. British Empire's mindset. But "expat" has absolutely no legal meaning, thus don't give them any right whatsoever. The majority of them just cannot understand that.
Spain just can’t catch a break. Sending prayers from the united states
Aaaah, prayers.
That will sure help.
Remember, floods happen because we put too much concrete down in cities and towns. Before cities and towns were turned into concrete jungles, floods were very rare in cities and towns around the world. There are many ways to deal with this through city planning, but no will to actually accomplish anything. Osaka has had a great response that features more green space (water drains into grass) and aquifers forced into building code under every home.
There are so many things we could do...but alas the draw of private jets and 55'000 square foot mansions and real estate investments, and stock options beckon.
Theres no rain in the netherlands for 3 weeks mam, what the fuck is going on hahahahaha
Climate change. Messes up all the weather patterns.
Thanks to god nothing significant happened down here in malaga area. We learnt massively from Valencia’s tragedy. We were ready for the situation 😓
' Thanks to God '? are you even THINKING about what you wrote. THANK GOD FOR NOTHING BUT MISERY.
So if everything is fine it’s thanks to god, and if things go horribly wrong whose fault is it? Because according to that collection of Bronze Age and Iron Age mythology that people like you revere god created evil too.
Can't help but think about the tourists unwelcomed, sprayed with water while at a cafe in Spain. Strange twist in the narrative.
Didn’t the EU remove 140 dams in Spain
Didn't I read somewhere Dams are being removed in some areas of Spain?
Fake news
@@josemanueld5413
In others words It's 100% True.
@@0utcastAussie100% fake. Has been removed old small walls in rivers no lonher needed. Nothing to be with real dams. It's just another fake propaganda from far ultra right groups.
Yes and the climate models are far too optimistic. Good luck when AMOC stops
He is not an expat he is an English immigrant
Not a f expat. A migrant, like so many others.
The world is changing
And so are the people sadly.
@ So true
here in Mumbai, its a little chilly in the morning and red hot by aftenoon. Just in a matter of few hours.
OT!!
Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python by two TV stations--WOR and WLVI!
Why are people not smart enough to turn their phones sideways when they are filming something?
It's not about smart or not.
The default position of the phone is portrait, not landscape, so it's easier to hold the phone with one hand in portrait position than holding the phone in landscape.
@@araara4746 that's completely ridiculous. I'm a filmmaker and do handheld walking videos in landscape all the time
@@RICKONORATO
It's not ridiculous at all, because it's a fact that you can prove.
When recording in portrait position, your entire cellphone is in the palm of your hand, with all five fingers gripping the edge, while when recording in landscape position you can only rely on your little finger to support it below and your index finger to press on top. The risk is that the cellphone can easily slip out of your hand because it is one-sided.
If you're a filmmaker and you've done it a lot, then it's something you're used to. Not everyone is as good as you.
this will ring the housing prices down now..
I’ll bet the Prince and the Princess’s daughters will be alright.
Strange comment. The overwhelming majority of people are 'alright' as you term it. Those most affected live at the foot of mountains and close to rivers which haven't been able to cope with the massive amount of water falling from the skies
This message brought to you by Global Warming, I want to thank all of you for burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, diesel, etc and making this possible.
I would laugh if it weren't for the fact it is true and so sad.
I am going to laugh because this statement is full of **** . Climate change?Yes, because of the things stated above,No.Because climate change existed way before these things were ever used!How about we look at a magnetic pole shift!
What do you call your horse 😂😂
@@MrSoda007 'Hypocrisy' if they are being honest 🤣
Your level of thinking is so deep it's like a teaspoon filled with tears.
Grow up and learn some stuff.
Does any body want to talk about cloud seeding and weather manipulation?
Did EU helps ?
No, siguen entretenidos en provocar otra guerra que les llene sus bolsillos, no les importan las vidas humanas.
THE END TIME SIGNS ARE GETTING WORSE THAN EVER
Very good chenal all monde histoire pilikcitey.merci bien.2024.france.
The cause and foundation of the problem is italy and France Paris,Rome,Napolitano,Napoli,America, Rome,Taranto,Torino,Sardegna ""
Start of much worse to come for all of us around the globe
The rain in Spain, stays mainly in the plains.
Apparently not.
Your little brain causes you too much pain.
Wonder if it will come out that eu made malaga rnove a load flood defense systems like in velencia
🛠️ 'Micro - Small' _ •🔧 🪛 ⚒️• _ "Industrial - Devlopment" ⚙️
Thinking of our Spanish friends 🇪🇸 come on world - time to do something about climate change
Should build more windmills . .
Honduras and the Philippines about to get slammed also. That's just what I've caught in the feeds, prob more. Every day now
I recall from 30 odd years ago on holiday I noticed various huge storm drainage channels through Spanish cities to the sea. At the time I thought they were excessive but on the last day as we were departing there was a huge storm and all these channels were filled with raging torrents. Spanish storms are NOT something new. Devastating, yes, but stop the climate change hysteria nonsense.
😭💙
I blame the plastic straws.¡Oh the Humanidad!
Wonder how our British retirees are doing… wish them safety
I was just telling my husband about that. I used to watch those Escape to the Continent shows. Lots of Brits retired to Spain. I wonder how many returned due to Brexit. And now this!
@@JaneMurray-di3gq Could you imagine having to go back to live in the UK after living in Spain for a few years? How depressing
I think its weather weapons personally, Morocco is using cloud seeding technology.
Any reports on the riots?