Climate Cat out of the Bag? Potentially dynamite revelations
Discussion
JohnnyPanic said:
Well said man in the stripey shirt!
TB cleans up well doesn't he!*- any evidence to link TB to that bloke is statistically insignificant
I'll try.
I had no idea who Marcus Brigstock was before the programme started and I no longer care.
Nicola Sturgeon was as nauseating as she always is, David Davis was insipid and hinted, but didn't speak what he felt he should enunciate.
Charlie Faulkner . . . well, words could only just touch on the vitriol I feel for that . . .
The bird from The Daily Mail was spot on, but unfortunately the hand picked audience (as it would appear from the derision that ensued) didn't agree.
What did you expect from the BBC?
I had no idea who Marcus Brigstock was before the programme started and I no longer care.
Nicola Sturgeon was as nauseating as she always is, David Davis was insipid and hinted, but didn't speak what he felt he should enunciate.
Charlie Faulkner . . . well, words could only just touch on the vitriol I feel for that . . .
The bird from The Daily Mail was spot on, but unfortunately the hand picked audience (as it would appear from the derision that ensued) didn't agree.
What did you expect from the BBC?
dangerousB said:
I'll try.
I had no idea who Marcus Brigstock was before the programme started and I no longer care.
Nicola Sturgeon was as nauseating as she always is, David Davis was insipid and hinted, but didn't speak what he felt he should enunciate.
Charlie Faulkner . . . well, words could only just touch on the vitriol I feel for that . . .
The bird from The Daily Mail was spot on, but unfortunately the hand picked audience (as it would appear from the derision that ensued) didn't agree.
What did you expect from the BBC?
How do you know?I had no idea who Marcus Brigstock was before the programme started and I no longer care.
Nicola Sturgeon was as nauseating as she always is, David Davis was insipid and hinted, but didn't speak what he felt he should enunciate.
Charlie Faulkner . . . well, words could only just touch on the vitriol I feel for that . . .
The bird from The Daily Mail was spot on, but unfortunately the hand picked audience (as it would appear from the derision that ensued) didn't agree.
What did you expect from the BBC?
whoami said:
dangerousB said:
I'll try.
I had no idea who Marcus Brigstock was before the programme started and I no longer care.
Nicola Sturgeon was as nauseating as she always is, David Davis was insipid and hinted, but didn't speak what he felt he should enunciate.
Charlie Faulkner . . . well, words could only just touch on the vitriol I feel for that . . .
The bird from The Daily Mail was spot on, but unfortunately the hand picked audience (as it would appear from the derision that ensued) didn't agree.
What did you expect from the BBC?
How do you know?I had no idea who Marcus Brigstock was before the programme started and I no longer care.
Nicola Sturgeon was as nauseating as she always is, David Davis was insipid and hinted, but didn't speak what he felt he should enunciate.
Charlie Faulkner . . . well, words could only just touch on the vitriol I feel for that . . .
The bird from The Daily Mail was spot on, but unfortunately the hand picked audience (as it would appear from the derision that ensued) didn't agree.
What did you expect from the BBC?
TankRizzo said:
YOU IDIOT WOMAN, THE FLOODING IS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING
JESUS
Correct!JESUS
These flood lies are beyond a joke.
Singular extreme weather events CANNOT be linked to climate change for a number of reasons not least the very wide range of natural variability.
Flooding was worse in the past.
18 July 1955: nearly 12 inches of rain fell in 24 hours over parts of Dorset
29 May 1920: a sudden 5 inches of rain fell on Louth in only 3 hours, almost razing the town and killing 23 people in less than an hour.
Both occurred at lower and much lower carbon dioxide levels. No causality anywhere to be seen.
More generally:
UK
Summer 2007 Floods: A Very Singular Event - 11th March 2008
A new scientific study of the wet summer of 2007 confirms that the floods were a very singular event and does not support the idea that the exceptional river flooding was linked to climate change. This conclusion is contained within a comprehensive hydrological appraisal of the summer 2007 floods carried out by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
The new report, The summer 2007 floods in England and Wales − a hydrological appraisal, brings together both flood and meteorological data and systematically breaks down the series of events leading to extensive river flooding, which had no close modern parallel for the June-August period across the UK.
Lead author, Terry Marsh, comments: “The river floods of summer 2007 were a very singular episode, which does not form part of any clear historical trend or show consistency with currently favoured climate change scenarios.” (my emphasis)
The report complements a recent paper on flood trends in the UK, which was led by Jamie Hannaford at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and published in the International Journal of Climatology late in 2007.
Mr Marsh continues: “Extreme flooding in the UK is historically rare but vulnerability to flooding has increased markedly as a consequence of floodplain development. This is despite increased resilience to flood risk through improved flood alleviation strategies and more sophisticated flood warning capabilities.”
The new study is an output from the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme (NHMP), operated jointly by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the British Geological Survey.
Full Report
EU
Prof Pielke Jr said:
J. I. Barredo of the European Commission published an interesting paper earlier this year titled, "Normalized Flood Losses in Europe: 1970-2006" (PDF) in the open access journal Natural hazards and Earth System Sciences of the EGU. The study looks at a relatively short period, 37 years, but its findings are interesting nonetheless. Here are a few excerpts (emphasis added):
Following the conceptual approach of previous studies, we normalised flood losses by considering the effects of changes in population, wealth, and inflation at the country level. Furthermore, we removed inter-country price differences by adjusting the losses for purchasing power parities (PPP). We assessed normalised flood losses in 31 European countries. These include the member states of the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Results show no detectable sign of human-induced climate change in normalised flood losses in Europe. The observed increase in the original flood losses is mostly driven by societal factors.
That's it. No evidence whatsoever for the flood-related glandular brain-dead utterances of gullible or culpable fools.Following the conceptual approach of previous studies, we normalised flood losses by considering the effects of changes in population, wealth, and inflation at the country level. Furthermore, we removed inter-country price differences by adjusting the losses for purchasing power parities (PPP). We assessed normalised flood losses in 31 European countries. These include the member states of the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Results show no detectable sign of human-induced climate change in normalised flood losses in Europe. The observed increase in the original flood losses is mostly driven by societal factors.
Edited by turbobloke on Thursday 26th November 23:41
Westy Pre-Lit said:
A little bit verbose, but a good point Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff