Catastrophic floods around the world are triggering warnings of the climate crisis intensifying, with communities feeling the effects of July’s extreme weather. Torrential rain has flooded homes and caused extensive damage in New York’s Hudson valley while in China, thousands of people have been displaced. In Spain, people could be seen clinging to their cars and climbing trees to escape the flood water and in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, where fatal landslides blocked about 700 roads, flash floods destroyed a bridge and filled streets with debris