Between 4pm and 5pm on Tuesday, eight inches fell, the most intense deluge ever recorded in China. China experiences regular flooding during the summer but flooding in Henan has been described as an event that would take place “once in a thousand years”. President Xi Jinping admitted that efforts to stop flooding had become “very difficult” but there was no mention of the climate crisis. And when China suffered its worst floods in decades last year, the director of the National Climate Centre denied a link with global warming. And it will be the most vulnerable to flooding if warming continues.

Source: Daily Mirror July 25, 2021 20:21 UTC