As Britain counts the costs of the worst floods in 200 yearsand what made it this hot 200 years ago???
Posted on 07/28/2007 11:16:09 AM PDT by Reagan is King
As Britain counts the costs of the worst floods in 200 years, Charles Clover argues the signs of global warming are now impossible to ignore A still from the Robert Carlyle film, Flood
Big Ben, the London Eye and Westminster Abbey awash. The submerged streets of London indistinguishable from the Thames. Admittedly, the above image, arresting as it is, is the stuff of cinematic trickery. But could it happen? One day, if we are not careful, it just might.
Of course, nowhere in the country are flood defences built to a higher standard than in London, because of the value, strategic and otherwise, of what lies behind them, so Trafalgar Square is unlikely ever to be as vulnerable as Tewkesbury, even though most of the capital is on a flood plain.
But if the floods of this week have taught us anything, it is that few events can be more extraordinary than the weather - and there is plenty of reason to think long and hard about the extraordinary weather we have recently been experiencing.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
BTW, what happened to all the global warming hurricanes we were supposed to have this year?
Lack of hurricanes is a sign of global warming. Duh!
One day I might just find Jessica Alba waiting for me in bed.
And what's more !...It's Bush's fault!
I believe that’s why they’ve moved the bar and now call it climate change so that they can have all their bases covered.
Even an increase in “natural disasters” can’t be used as an indicator without additional factors being considered.
Development and “flood defenses” in one place lead to flooding downstream. Plus, while we are seeing climate change, the question remains whether it is caused by our activities or is purely part of natural variation.
happened to all the global warming hurricanes we were supposed to have this year?They'll come when Karl Rove wants them to come. Right now he has his Katrina Machine switched to Standby.
As Britain counts the costs of the worst floods in 200 yearsand what made it this hot 200 years ago???
Since all this flooding is being caused by the melting polar ice caps, might I suggest a 100 megaton nuclear blast in no mans land up there to “evaporate” a portion of the cap?
No one up there anyway and as Hiroshima and Nagaski proved, the land will be habitable relatively quickly.
And you better believe us or else...
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2007/07/global-warming-brownshirts.html
global hurricane devastation plans have been halted until scooter libby is back in circulation.
People are no longer being dumbed down — they ARE dumbed down.
I swear, this is such a numbnuts "issue" that it's disgusting. Underneath Yellowstone Park right now is a volcanic caldera that is the equivalent of a festering zit on the planet's surface. A big huge magma chamber, according to my resident Ask-Dr.-Science, that folks who study earth geology say goes off about once every 600,000 years. When it does, it buries the entire midwest in ash. It's going to go off again, and it's due ... maybe in ten years, maybe in a thousand years, who knows.
Juan Cabrillo's diaries of his journey along the California Coast in the mid 1500s say there was SNOW all the way along the Big Sur Coast. That was only 450 years ago!! Snow there today would cause what moron eco alarmists would certainly call an "environmental disaster!"
I swear, people who fall for Man-Made Climate Disaster scenarios are as gullible and unlearned as tribal folks who cower in fear of a Western astronomer who predicts a lunar eclipse.
The climate model called for hotter drier summers just before they got this colder, wetter deluge but, according to the article, this could also fit the forecast.
Christianity?
Only government can control global warming. It must be removed from the hands of amateurs such as Algore and put under the rules of debate of Congress.
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