Stock Photo - 14 January 2022, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz: Bernhard Mühr (M), a meteorologist from Karlsruhe, took his seat at the meeting of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament's committee of inquiry into the flood disaster before presenting his expert report on the Ahr floods in July 2021. The committee of inquiry is looking into the question of whether the extreme weather situation was foreseeable and why such destruction with 135 deaths and hundreds of injuries could have occurred. Ten experts from Germany and Great Britain have been invited. The public meeting will also look at the role played by climate change and geographical conditions. Photo: Arne Dedert/dpa. - Mainz/Rhineland-Palatinate/Germany