Romm : England In Permanent Droughtflood Due To Missing Arctic Ice

11 Responses to Romm : England In Permanent Droughtflood Due To Missing Arctic Ice

1. calvertn says:

   May 19, 2012 at 2:09 pm

   I don’t know when that photo was taken, the River Kennet was in flood in late April and someone drowned in it at Reading. http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2112711_man_found_dead_in_river_kennet_named
   That particular river suffers from over-abstraction to serve a large and growing town called Swindon.

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2. John B., M.D. says:

   May 19, 2012 at 3:42 pm

   Vermont bans fracking: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/18/486543/vermont-becomes-first-us-state-to-ban-fracking/
   They should also ban natural gas imports from other states that involved fracking., then watch their gas bills skyrocket under their plan.

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   • Andy DC says:

     May 19, 2012 at 5:16 pm

     It is ironic that a frigid state like Vermont, which could benefit from a few degrees of warming, is one of the states fighting the hardest against it.

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3. Paul Homewood says:

   May 19, 2012 at 4:23 pm

   If he lived here, he would know it is just good old English weather.

   http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/april-weather-in-the-uk/

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   • stevengoddard says:

     May 19, 2012 at 4:28 pm

     Not necessarily. He grew up in Texas and doesn’t know anything about their weather either.

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4. tckev says:

   May 19, 2012 at 4:40 pm

   It’s all part of the plan to reduce emissions of that dangerous greenhouse gas dihydrogen oxide. It has been proved that when this watery pollution gets into the atmosphere it wreaks havoc on the climate. The UK is committed to reducing all climate change pollution and as such is seeking methods of returning the UK back to a stable predictable frozen climate.

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   • John B., M.D. says:

     May 19, 2012 at 5:16 pm

     Don’t you mean, dihydrogen monoxide, the most evil chemical known to mankind? http://dhmo.org/

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5. Sleepalot says:

   May 20, 2012 at 9:59 am

   It was dry a year ago. http://riverkennet.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/down-on-upper-river-kennet-water-levels.html

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   • Sleepalot says:

     May 20, 2012 at 10:13 am

     It was dry in 2010 and in 2009. http://riverkennet.blogspot.co.uk/2010_12_01_archive.html

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6. Sleepalot says:

   May 20, 2012 at 1:56 pm

   Right, so I think I’ve found the place where that photo was taken – 51.411949,-1.788719

   http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&biw=1016&bih=630&noj=1&gl=uk&q=51.411949,-1.788719&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x4871595c4e924647:0x4cd84f57fa36e7d7,%2B51%C2%B0+24%27+37.21%22,+-1%C2%B0+47%27+19.67%22&gl=uk&ei=CvW4T7DEO-rb0QXJrc2FCA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA

   I’d say the sign marks the spot, beyond which it would be perverse to call it a river.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     May 20, 2012 at 2:03 pm

     I used to work near the Kennet in Wokingham

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