‘There is no rise in the number of reported major floods events over the past 129 years……it is unclear if climate change is implicated in recent flooding.‘
This report demonstrates why the likes of Nigel Lawson should have a place in the debate, the so-called debate, on climate change and its effects.
The BBC seems to have done a volte face and is not only reporting things that might cast some degree of doubt on climate change but also links to the much derided GWPF….an organisation that Harrabin especially has been quite negatively aggressive towards but for this report he provides a link to them.
The BBC is also reporting this:
Global warming slowdown ‘could last another decade’
Though it is still hedging its bets with Harrabin’s favoured reason for the ‘pause’, as they call it, ocean warming getting top billing (even though the IPCC admitted having no data to prove that):
The latest theory says that a naturally occurring 30-year cycle in the Atlantic Ocean is behind the slowdown.
The researchers says this slow-moving current could continue to divert heat into the deep seas for another decade.
Has there been a sea change at the BBC with a decision to give more coverage to information that is ‘inconvenient’ to the consensus?
Will Bob Ward now be demanding that Roger Harrabin must be banned from BBC airwaves…….a heretical climate denier?
I’m sure there is a stiff letter on its way right now to Fraser Steel.
Harrabin is now having to admit the evidence for floods caused by climate change isn’t there….and, shock horror…immigration, or ‘population growth’ as he coyly puts it, is a major cause……..
‘Growth drives UK flooding problems’
Part of the UK’s problem with flooding is self-imposed, new research suggests.
The study says the number of reported major flood events has increased, but in parallel with population growth and a boom in building in vulnerable areas.
It says it is unclear if climate change is implicated in recent flooding.
The researchers admit their study is a fragment of a complex picture. They have not, for instance, been able to account for the benefits of flood defence spending.
Neither have they factored in land use changes like road-building, ploughing grasslands or draining marshes – which all contribute to floods.
But looking at the broad picture, they conclude that when population growth and building growth are taken into account there is no rise in the number of reported major floods events over the past 129 years.
There has, though, been a rise in the number of reported small flood events.
Dr Clarke said he had been misquoted as ruling out climate change as a contributor to recent floods.
“We have categorically not ruled out a link between climate change and flooding,” he told BBC News. “We just can’t demonstrate that there is a link.
Someone had better tell the government:
UK storms: Hammond says climate change ‘clearly a factor’
Matt McGarth might need a heads up:
Climate impacts ‘overwhelming’ – UN
Some impacts of climate change include a higher risk of flooding and changes to crop yields and water availability.
Roger Harrabin better have a word with himself:
Have we learned our lessons on flooding?
‘…tracts of the UK lie under water, and scientists warn this is likely to happen more often with man-made climate change.’
He puts the blame for the worst effects of the floodng on government policies on flood defences….will Harrabin now look at the effect of Labour’s immigration policies? Probably not as the BBC’s complaints head honcho, Fraser Steel is also a director of an immigration advisory and campaigning company.
Climate Change is not a planetary weather phenomena but a politico-religious phenomena.
It depends on the amount of hot and humid air emanating from people who believe in the messianic aspects of the god of Climate, coming down to planet earth, to save it from the environmental sins committed by its inhabitants.
Only frequent acts of penitence , mea culpas, and deposits of money in the collection plate, will mitigate the anger of the god of Climate and its followers.
Amen.
More clouds and Global cooling would mean there is less heat to hold up the water in the hot and humid air in the Atmosphere, so this would cause a temporary flooding trend towards a mini-ice age. But I think they call this a weather trend rather than Climate Change.
But I do not know anyone foolish enough to use flooding trends to calibrate carbon dioxide warming, anyway just like Hurricanes, the assumed science in the computer models of the IPCC consensus contradicts the assumed causes, because in both cases the weather should become less extreme if Carbon Dioxide is causing a warming trend.
It seems that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have been telling porkies about global warming, too…
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/25/Australian-Bureau-of-Meteorology-accused-of-Criminally-Adjusted-Global-Warming
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/23/australian-met-office-accused-of-manipulating-temperature-records/
‘They have not, for instance, been able to account for the benefits of flood defence spending’
That’s an awful lot of money already on some awfully intrusive works not to be able to quantify benefits.
Which, presumably, also means they are not too terribly sure about possible down sides too?
I mention this because, round here, a few chaps and chapesses in the know (ie; not public sector kool-aid drinkers or NGO funding addicts, but actual engineers & land managers) are asking where they think the extra water diverted from traditional upstream floodplains back down the river flumes may end up.
‘Fraser Steel is also a director of an immigration advisory and campaigning company
Multi hundred thousand a year, function-free diversity quota bimbos having time to hone their barista skills of a Friday POETS afternoon is one thing, but having a arbitrator of complaints involved with a company complaints to the BBC will cover, is as healthy as having a Middle East editor with a visceral hatred of one of the protagonists…. oh.
Well, at the very least, conflict of interest much? Again?
Aren’t they paid enough to, well, do their actual jobs?
I tend to look at the Arctic ice levels (The Antarctic is at a record for some unknown reason).
The current level is at a 8 year high and something odd happened in 2006 (all figures before 2006 are higher, all those after are lower by a significant amount)
You could look at the Satellite records for an increase in Cloud Albedo as a cause, the cosmic ray flux since 2007 has been its highest since the 1930s, so this is in line with the Svensmark theory.
Well. the results are now in from Dartmoor concerning the record rainfall we were supposed to have had over the last 12 months. Guess what? The rainfall amounts in the 12 month period (July 13-June 14) was, as near as dammit, the same as 2012, 2011, 2010 etc.
Will we get resignations at the BBC? Will any ‘consider their positions’ as they would expect any politian to do, they would indeed demand it. But then we know the BBC and its so-called journalists are above such behaviour and will never admit to being wrong.
“I have yet to meet a climate scientist who does not believe that global warming is a worse problem than they thought a few years ago”
– Jeremy Grantham, Bob Ward’s paymaster. (Doesn’t get out much does he?)
http://www.nature.com/news/be-persuasive-be-brave-be-arrested-if-necessary-1.11796
Apparently all the climate scientists he meets walk about with fingers stuck in their ears so they don’t hear about the last 18 years of RSS satellite data that shows nothing but natural variation. Because they would be found out to be the fraudulent grant-hunting liars they are. And Bob’s boss Jeremy Grantham would lose billions. His funding of LSE Grantham Institute is the equivalent of “market manipulation”.
And the BBC still refer to Bob Ward as a “Climate Scientist” (party to market manipulation eh, BBC?)
‘The latest theory says that a naturally occurring 30-year cycle in the Atlantic Ocean is behind the slowdown.
The researchers says this slow-moving current could continue to divert heat into the deep seas for another decade.’
It doesn’t occur to the science-free zone of the BBC that this is another theory – one that it took ‘the world’s leading climate scientists’ 5 years to come up with, by the way – being used to underpin the more-than-flaky-if-not-totally-disproven theory of CO2-induced global warming.
It doesn’t occur to them either, in their science-free zone, that all this plethora of theories goes to prove is that the science is a zillion light years away from being ‘settled’.
Here’s a list of the 39 excuses for a near 18-year lack of warming the hysterical warmists have come up with so far:
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/updated-list-of-29-excuses-for-18-year.html
The ‘GREEN’ Environment Agency is responsible for Floods (or at least thinks it can control them) so along with flooding most of Somerset, part of the problem (as seen by the EU Quango agency) is locally UK grown ‘Watercress’ (or growing anything at all on the riverbank is now subject to a ‘fine’ if you happen to use ‘phosphates’. -Although this is a small local cottage industry. ‘Jon Marshall has ceased cultivating the beds at Itchen Stoke, near Alresford, after the Environment Agency set a bill for £3,000 to cover the risk of pollution from his operation. ‘ Strange that the huge Nitrogen-Phosphate Fertilsers the FRENCH commonly uses in industrial intensive agriculture is not such a problem!- it’s our UK small Watercress production on the river Hitchen that is at fault. Either way how can you run small business when you have this kind of daft ‘environmental’ legislation and the same agency fails bigger and far more important areas of flood land (Somerset levels). It’s all totally bonkers, the sooner we leave the EU the better.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11374871.EU_charges_threaten_the_future_of_historic_watercress_bed/