Experts blame flooding on global warming.
BY ANDREW FREEDMAN
With the English countryside underwater from some of the worst flooding on record, the British government found that “an increasing body of evidence” ties this type of event to manmade global warming.
British Government: Flood Crisis Consistent With Global Warming
In 1974, experts blamed flooding on global cooling.
TIME Magazine Archive Article — Another Ice Age? — Jun. 24, 1974
dang…i thought all this time it was weather!
If they can mangle it to support global warming, it is climate. If they cannot, it is weather.
Freedman’s boss at Mashable was candid in a public statement that he hired him specifically for the purpose of “tying” weather to global warming. Do we really need another outlet to promote the ‘Fanaticism Of The apocalypse’?
Ah… the old “an increasing body of evidence” ruse
You can say the same thing for the existence of Big Foot
You beat me to it. If you have evidence, you have evidence. An “increasing body” means you don’t. Just more theories.
In the case of Big Foot, an “increasing body of evidence” means more plaster foot print casts. In climate science it means additional climate models or model runs.
They’re equally convincing.
“Britain is heading for water shortages and crop failures as extreme droughts like that of 1976 become more frequent, experts have warned.
A Met Office study on how climate change could affect the frequency of extreme droughts in the UK has found they will become more common by 2100, and to put the droughts in context, conditions seen in 1976 were used as a benchmark – one of the worst droughts on record.
The Met Office climate model was used to run a number of simulations and in the worst case scenarios, extreme droughts could happen once every decade – making them about 10 times more frequent than today.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/extreme-droughts-to-be-more-common-1983913.html
Settled science.
““Britain is heading for water shortages and crop failures as extreme droughts like that of 1976 become more frequent, experts have warned.”
Wait a minute… 1976?
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/
Uhm, 1976 is roughly 10 years before they saw their supposed “catastrophic Global Warming.”
So they are saying “Global Warming” is causing pre-Global Warming like conditions in Britain? Seriously?
A Met Office study indicaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Let no disaster go to waste when it can be used to promote one’s ideology.
‘UK storms should be catalyst for climate change treaty, says Ed Davey’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/uk-storms-climate-change-ed-davey
Every time the American Indian peoples signed a treaty with Washington, they got royally screwed over. Anyone advocating a treaty, like Ed Davey is, wants the other side to give up and get ready for a pineapple. Any climate treaty will have the same result as the Treaty of Versailles! Economic disaster followed by conflict.
The guardian and Lord Stern says the UK must cut emissions by 80%!!!
And people said George III was mad! These people have completely lost their marbles.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/flooding-storms-uk-climate-change-lord-stern
The world Communists will never stop their propaganda.
or for what really happened,
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84705
Eco Zealots + Pernicious Government Weenies = Screw people over because Gaia must be appeased.
Eeko Zealots
There, I fixed it for you.
Yeah, you beat me to it. Those Midland Flats are artificially drained land, the result of human intervention. Lately there has been a persistent government intervention, by not dredging the rivers, and allowing water to collect they are gradually returning the land to its natural state.
These floods were a matter of human choice, relating to drainage. They have nothing to do with Global Warming.
http://wiki.reformrivers.eu/index.php/Hampshire_Avon_-_Hale
See also Ed Krug and his explanation of why the Green movement deified wetlands.
Huh. Last year Slingo said just opposite!
Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo said climate change was “loading the dice” towards freezing, drier weather — and called publicly for the first time for an urgent investigation.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4881369/Is-the-UK-set-for-Arctic-weather.html
And here she is on ITV saying it!
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/can-slingo-get-anything-right-2/
It’s a shame that people who are never correct at being paid for it. I mean, I can be consistently wrong for ½ what she’s being paid.
No Stark, it take REAL TALENT to be that wrong.
Random guesses would give you a 50/50 chance. So it really does take talent. And for that talent she gets promoted to ‘Dame’. Rolls eyes.
I think you’re right about that.
It’s basically that if you predict some transitory event is going to keep happening ad infinitum you’re always going to be wrong. If you have two dry years in a row in an area that’s normally pretty damp, predicting that the next few years are probably going to be dry is stupid. If you have an unusually long series of floods, predicting that they’ll keep happening is probably not going to work out. Things will return to mean, I guess you could say.
I can’t really fault her, though. She’s getting a pretty good paycheque for babbling mindlessly. It would be pretty hard to not keep playing, you know?
Yes, it’s like psi-missing.
Yes. I had a first sergeant say to me, “Son, if it were only incompetence, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor.”
There would appear to be strong historic lessons regarding the Co2 Scam and comparing the Cholera epidemics in London during the ” great stink ” which closed parliament as the Thames was so polluted ! Co2 warming like the ” Miasma ” was the same with the London Cholera epidemics in the 19th Century. It was the contaminated water supply all along, not foul smells as thought by the government experts. At least the top guy in question had the honour to admit that he had been wrong and everything he had believed was based on a falsehood !
Steve – Off topic, but you may care to pick this apart. See the last two paras…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10638983/The-new-Dust-Bowl-epochal-drought-hits-Californias-Central-Valley.html
Record Flooding ? Where ?
http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec4.html
http://wxmaps.org/pix/soil4.html
Another contender for Scam of the Week:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-13/ancient-coral-off-wa-coast-decimated-by-marine-heatwave/5255804
CSIRO are saying its unprecedented and more evidence of CAGW, demonstrating that they have been infiltrated by alarmists and anyone who disagrees with their religion will be sacked. This from an organisation with a stellar history of scientific discovery and one with more technical patents than just about any other organisation. The alarmists have brought pseudo science and thus growing condemnation to CSIRO. Either the board does a clean out, or the government soon will, because they are getting sick and tired of the propaganda that they are putting taxpayers money into.
News flash to CSIRO: Coral bleaching has happened over millennia and will happen again and CO2 has nothing to do with it. Anyone who says it does is a fraud and should be sacked, just like the Climate Commission was.
Man, I thought ocean levels were rising. Shouldn’t that keep the precious little corals safe from the big, bad sun?
It’s almost like those silly corals don’t know to stop growing & stay down in the cold water. Hrm.
Nice connection! $12 million wasted. I wish I could do 5 years of scuba diving on all the tropical reefs of Australia and be paid to do it! Where is a great white or a tiger shark when you need one!
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-leaves-ancient-corals-on-pilbara-coast-devastated-by-marine-heatwaves-20140213-32jtp.html
I just wanted to send you this link in case you missed it. Enjoy your blog.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/13/top-8-explanations-for-why-global-warming-is-on-pause/
Booker in the Telegram has a great anaylsis of the flooding – it is man made. Deliberate policies sought to increase flooding.
“The problem began, they said, in 1996 when the new Environment Agency took overall responsibility for managing Britain’s rivers. These men had been alarmed to see a sharp decline in regular dredging. The rivers have always been crucial to keeping the Levels drained, because they provide the only way to allow flood waters to escape to the sea. Equally worrying was how scores of pumping stations which carry water to the rivers were being neglected. And although the drainage boards were still allowed to operate, their work was now being seriously hampered by a thicket of new EU waste regulations, zealously enforced by the EA. These made it almost impossible to dispose sensibly of any silt removed from the maze of drainage ditches which are such a prominent feature of the Levels.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9137131/instant-wildlife-just-add-water/
The article is in The Spectator.
There was also an article in the Daily Telegraph.
For the history buffs, one of the people who instigated dredging in the 19th Century to make the drainage more efficient was Isambard Kingdom Brunel… back in the day when British engineering didn’t suck.
Makes you wonder what went wrong.
Henry Marc Brunel (the second son) also worked on marsh drainage in 1865, so it gives you some idea of the background to the current floods.
I’m worried that if climate change causes everything to happen 10 times as frequently as it did in the past there’ll be too much weather to pack into a year.
(/sarc – for those that need it)
Climate change is causing Australian university “researchers” to migrate north to Kazakhstan for the winter. Who knew the snow leopard was native to Australia?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-15/research-investigate-effects-climate-change-snow-leopard/5262304
I will be researching the effects of climate change on bikini design in Rio de Janeiro for the next 3 months followed by research on the effects of climate change on the taste of wine from the south of France, followed by the effects of climate change on the sex habits of ski bunnies in the French Alps , finishing the torrid year with three months studying the effects of climate change on wave heights in Hawaii.
This is all crucial science and I will need a team of skilled researchers to assist. I have rejected Chris Turney as he is not a real scientist and he keeps talking about how he got stuck with 70 idiots in Antarctica!
Interviews take place on Monday on Miami beach to see if candidates can handle the stress.
… the effects of climate change on the sex habits of ski bunnies in the French Alps …
See you there – beginning of April!
What worries me, other than being in the midst of a world-class social hysteria, is that the weather in the British Isles (both UK and Ireland) looks similar to what H. H. Lamb found was happening at the onset of the Little Ice Age.