The hurricane "Sabine" was clearly a consequence of climate change, says the meteorologist Özden Rubbed. Zugstopps and daycare closures are correct.

Wangerooge on 10. February 2020: The storm whipped up the water on the beach photo: Reuters

taz: Lord Rubbed the Deep "Sabine" Germany pulled away, the next day it storms more. These are already the effects of climate change, or is this normal winter weather?

Özden Rubbed: The question is not anymore, sorry. We live in a world that has warmed up already to a little over 1 degree. That is: The climate has already changed. The increased warming caused by the uncontrolled and excessive Release of greenhouse gases through the Burning of coal, Oil and Gas, always acts more strongly in the atmosphere and changed you will always be massive – and thus our weather.

The hurricane is a direct result of climate change?

The storm complex is the strongest, the there are currently on the entire Northern hemisphere of the earth is – and that's not normal. We have February, so the middle of winter. This should normally be the coldest time of the year. Instead, we measure temperatures of 14 to 15 degrees – in the middle of winter! Against my window, the hail grains today are geprasselt. Typical and usual would be that it is cold and we have April weather. The footprint of climate change is not to doubt, to deny the climate crisis for a long time.

Özden Rubbed

48, is a graduate meteorologist. He has been working since 2013 for the ZDF in Mainz, Germany, and is host of the weather forecast.

There are critics who say that the covered before the forecasters say. The city of Solingen explains, "Sabine" to "Sabine". Other writing, the reason for the massive warnings of the lust for Sensation and clicks in the Internet.

When we speak of course of a "horror storm" or the like, this is overkill. But who's talking about the hurricane to the "Sabine" down is irresponsible or has not dealt with the matter simply. Our weather models today are much more precise than 20 years ago. Since the beginning of last week, it was foreseeable that an exceptionally strong storm reaches deep. Since Thursday we have warned in the ZDF, therefore, prior to an impending hurricane – and that was right. While we're on the phone here on Monday morning, will strengthen the Munich airport, just winds of 119 kilometers per hour measured, which is full of storm! In Fürstenzell near Passau there are even 155 kilometres an hour – that's the speed of an Express train that rushes past you.

The warnings have half put Germany Lahm: In a long-distance train, schools and kindergartens drove remained closed. Was not the exaggerated?

no. The Situation was life-threatening. Imagine, just a single ICE crashed with 300 kilometers per hour in a fallen tree – that could have been deaths and serious injuries and would have had a huge outcry for a result. Therefore, it was entirely right that the railway Westphalia, especially in the densely populated North Rhine-also the regional stopped the trains completely. And closed schools and kindergartens: Who takes responsibility when a falling tree Branch injured children?

So the critics are ignorant?

climate deniers, there are also weather deniers – people who also believe in the case of urgent alerts: All fear-mongering, as bad may not be good. This is perhaps just the nature of the people that you do not want to have an event come true. Anyway, either you listen to the professionals, or you have to live with the consequences. Unfortunately, we have not removed ourselves so far from nature that we take their power very seriously.

How?

If I put pictures of the people who go with the full hurricane on the Brocken in the Harz mountains for a walk, then blown away, and almost on the face falls, I can only say: This is irresponsible. We need to learn again, to take us back and accept the violence of nature. This is true in the case of weather phenomena such as hurricane "Sabine" as in the climate crisis. We have to adapt – but that's not happening. Instead, the greenhouse gas emissions year on year rise. This is irresponsible and a very poor risk management.