Spain has a long history of catastrophic flooding. After the 1957 Valencia flood which had three-fourths of the city underwater, the Spanish government built a lot of dams for flood control. But recently they have been tearing the dams down, and now blame flooding on “climate change.”
Spain affirming its place as the European leader in dam removal,
New DRE report reveals another record-breaking year for dam removal in Europe – Dam Removal Europe
Study of historical flood events on Spanish rivers using documentary data
“On October 14, 1957, Valencia, Spain, experienced a catastrophic flood when the Turia River overflowed, inundating much of the city. This disaster resulted in at least 81 fatalities and extensive property damage, with approximately 75% of the city’s streets submerged”
“Spain has a long history of dam building, particularly for flood control purposes. Here’s an overview of dam construction in Spain aimed at preventing floods”
“‘Climate change kills’: Spain faces new flood threat as leaders highlight extreme weather at COP29
It comes a fortnight after at least 220 people lost their lives in Valencia during Spain’s worst flooding in decades. And just days after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez brought the region’s tragedy to the global stage during his speech at COP29.”
How dare we use our minds to create ways of making the world more livable for humans! New “science” (religion) will put an end to that, so we can go backward toward the uncertainties of a Stone Age life. Remove those unnatural dams. Let the people suffer. It’s better for the earth that way. Please don’t ask for any proof.
The deeper the blue, the stupider the government.
I wonder what the intentions behind behind those dam removals are?
Beavers complaining about cultural appropriations?
I’d expect the numbers of dams to increase in a warming world
to counter droughts with increased water storage.
Beaches. With all those dams river sediments can no longer reach the sea. Especially important for rivers to do their job as beach creators are the heavy rain events when the rivers are wild and have enough power.
No beaches no tourists.
Of course this has consequences for structures close to rivers. But you can’t make an omelette without breaking the egg.
Well – this answer is just giving me more questions.
Beaches can be found everywhereon small Islands with no rivers at all.
The area those those Rivers affect at entry are pretty small and Beaches should be way bigger around those areas than everywhere else, but the beach “distribution” seems to be quite homogeneous – while Sediments are not,
yet the sediments end up with with the same beige color.
Yeah, one either embraces the idea that we are intelligent and can manipulate our environment to make it more benign to life, or you declare yourself to be another short-sighted animal, and you let nature kill you at will. There are always negative effects to every action. It has always been a costs/benefits game- for the intelligent, anyway.
We really need to turn the educational system around and begin to make k-12 a rigorous mind development process. I remember all the chants of the modern educators: Why have them memorize math tables- they have calculators now (what about memory development?), Why teach them cursive, they type everything now (what about pattern recognition), Why teach them to read-they have AI now (what about sorting out thought processes logically). and the list goes on. The problem is: Can they get anything going in four years, and will it be sustained after that?