From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ray Sanders
An utterly absurd new report:
London must better prepare for severe floods and heatwaves, a report has warned.
The London Climate Resilience Review, published on Wednesday, called for a “reset moment” for the capital following the general election.
Emma Howard Boyd CBE, chairwoman of the review, said preparing London for more frequent and extreme climate risks was “non-negotiable”. The report highlighted opportunities for investment in London but warned that time was running out to act on climate resilience.
A government spokesperson said it welcomed the review and understood the “urgent need” to prepare for and adapt to changes posed by the climate emergency.
The review said that in July 2022, when London hit 40°C, there was a 50% increase in water consumption, while reservoirs were at their lowest for 30 years and wildfires pushed the London Fire Brigade to its limits.
It recommended that an official heat plan be created for London to enable the city to better deal with severe floods and heatwaves.
The independent report was commissioned by the Mayor of London and looked at the capital’s preparedness for heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires, storms, sea level rise and subsidence.
It also found that government and businesses had not adequately planned for the disruption caused when severe weather impacts “cascade” through critical systems such as healthcare, transport, energy and water.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn051ee77pno
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There is only one objective in this report, and that is to scaremonger the public into accepting Net Zero whatever the cost.
Emma Howard Boyd has been a leading member of the Climate Establishment for a long time, so it would be wishful thinking to expect an honest, accurate and realistic assessment, given her background
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https://www.gov.uk/government/people/emma-howard-boyd
They might just as well have picked John Gummer or Chris Skidmore!
Where is their evidence that any of the things they have highlighted are actually happening and getting worse? Floods, droughts, wildfires, storms or sea level rise? There is none offered because they are not getting worse. All they have is a handful of hot days to scaremonger about, but where is the Climate Plan for cold days- after all, ice and snow create far more problems for London than a spot of sunshine!
As for subsidence, what on earth does that have to do with climate? It may be that increasing water extraction is a problem, but that is down to demand.
Take a look at rainfall, for instance. Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford has a very long record and is representative of what is happening in the Thames Valley in terms of floods and droughts.
Rainfall in the summer-half year shows no long term trend at all. Droughts certainly used to be much worse in past years, and apart from the notorious summer of 2012, there have been no excessively wet ones for many years.
As for extreme rainfall, Oxford’s wettest days occurred in the 20thC. the data clearly shows there is no evidence that rainfall is becoming more extreme, as the report pretends:
https://climexp.knmi.nl/data/pgdcnUK000056225.dat
And monthly rainfall is not becoming more extreme either:
The Met Office have already admitted that wind storms were much worse in the 1980s and 90s, and sea levels on the East Coast have been rising at the same rate since the end of the Little Ice Age in the late 19thC. In the last 50 years, the rate of rise has been just 1.67mm a year:
https://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=170-053
This fraudulent report has nothing to do with facts. It is an overtly political exercise, designed to scare the public.
London’s biggest threat is having people like its current mayor at the helm and a Labour government.
There is now a voice…
I’ve never heard such a load of old tripe in my life.
“London must better prepare for severe floods and heatwaves”
They always jinx it.
“”wildfires pushed the London Fire Brigade to its limits.””
So does a fire in a tower block.
As for the idea of an “”heat plan””, isn’t that where they colour the weather charts in a deep crimson etc when the temperature reaches 23C? Having checked the forecast today we might get to 24, Thursday 21, Friday 22, Saturday 22 etc
Any tips on coping with this unprecedented heat? /sarc
Tips? Yes. Go to the pub and have a nice long, cool drink, or six 🙂
I do that in midwinter too!
A good scotch or similar
I would take a light jumper along if you’re going to be outside in those low temperatures for very long.
I understand o’bummer is considered “the lightbringer”… who is the “light jumper”… michelle?
Did London truly reach 40C, or was that at LHR?
So they claim, but I can’t remember which airfield…
Hint: it was the one with the most jets taxiing around.
Right now it’s 22c in our house, mainly because we have the window open, my wife is trying to find a sweater because she’s cold. The house is usually at 24C, very comfortable according to my wife. Apparently that’s a heat wave in our place. Not!
All part of the continuing grinding down of the populous into submission, to then agree to whatever these nasty people demand, which is total control and all our money (I imagine Sadiq is already rubbing his grubby little hands with glee at he prospect of extracting more money from Londoners). Anyway, why just London? Why are they so special? Why are they so different?
It’s all lies.
It’s all false.
It’s all deceit.
It’s all vindictive.
It’s all immoral.
As has been said elsewhere, if it gets hot, get into the shade and intake liquid, i.e. go to the pub.
It’s all about control – of you, because they fear you.
From the ‘inaction’ of the ‘masses’, I don’t think they have much to fear.
I guess the question to ask is this:
‘What are the boondoggles that this report claims need spending?’
Every report of this nature is a mouthpiece for certain lobby groups. Is it public services? Is it carbon capture?
London is undoubtedly a heat island. It does not represent baseline climate change in the UK – just compare the heat island of London with rural Highlands of Scotland, with rural East Yorkshire, with rural NE Wales and you’ll see a very, very different pattern.
Floods in London will be due to increased concrete not due to increased rainfall. The water will not be absorbed into the ground where it falls, thus causing greater amounts to concentrate in drainage basins. Plenty can be learned about how to direct surface water into drainage spaces supporting moisture-loving plants/trees:it’s low-tech, it’s well tested and it doesn’t need any patents. Nothing to do with climate change, just basic good urban planning, which apparently hasn’t existed for 50 years.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYmgYF-mQfI for how those in deserts capture the water.
Forget the boondoggles, work out how to store the rainfall under the ground of London.
That’s dead easy. A huge amount of paving etc could be removed to allow the water a chance of finding the water table.
But. Such measures, patently sensible as they are, do not browbeat people into submission, nor do they generate revenue.
Hush your mouth with the revenoo-
Charge people for paved driveways, Sadiq-commissioned report concludes (msn.com)
By encouraging people to go EV they are exacerbating the paving over of front gardens in London and elsewhere so people can have home off road charging. But they never do joined up thinking.
There are different ways of looking at it. One, actual damage control by altering physical infrastructure to cope w floods etc. Two, not actually providing real solutions but let any damage done point to climate change and offer the solution in the form of carbon reduction measures, controlling the population and higher taxes. As Armageddon is always some time in the future this can go on forever. It’s a scam.
Now, having said that, more measures to cope with say a heatwave or hypothermia by providing protection for old and vulnerable people is always a good thing. Heatwaves get headlines..
It’s also beautifying.
I remember Al Gore predicted around 20 years ago that London would be under water by 2012.
Every time I travel into the city I take my Wellies but, as yet, they have been superfluous. I also looked forward to, instead of a black cab, hailing a Gondola.
Never mind I am sure Al got the numbers mixed up (possibly meant 2210) and it was a simple typographical error!!
Gore was all over the place with his predictions back, he mostly mispresented the researchers – who were clever enough not to put any real numbers out there but when pushed ” would give a ball park figure”…..which they hide from now 15 years later
Always check the CVs. The people behind this stuff are always oblivious to the gaps in their education and make no effort to conceal them in their published CV.
In this case Emma Howard Boyd studied economics, a modern language, and music in school, then economics and law in university.
It is a sorry fact of the UK education system that she would not have studied mathematics nor any sciences after the age of 16. She would have studied qualitative economics, not requiring anything more than primary school arithmetic. It is a safe bet she is innumerate and wholly unacquainted with the hard sciences.
Quoting Francis Menton: “When people get into advocating for this “energy transition,” the stars regularly align to bring forth the most extreme levels of ineptitude. Start with the fact that the “smartest” people are filled with arrogance and hubris, but are not actually very smart. Add that many innumerate Politics and English majors have flooded into a field that cries out for engineering calculations. Add too that groupthink and orthodoxy enforcement prevent anyone from pointing out obvious flaws. And then throw in a strong dose of religious zealotry that obstructs the intrusion of anything resembling critical thinking. All in all, it’s a prescription for catastrophe.”
Well educated but ignorant.
Well diploma’d, not educated.
The big problem for climate alarmists is that nothing bad is happening. So they have to make things up. Hence this ridiculous report.
Good way to put it! 🙂
So true!
I’ve lived in London since 1978. Not a lot has changed except getting rid of SO2 with the clean air acts has let more sunlight through to heat the tarmac and concrete up a bit more, and foliage grows more quickly because of the increase in CO2.
The City of London is drowning in debt 12 billion plus by what I have heard the mayor has demand that the UK govt bail them out good luck
He wants £25 billion
Transport for London lost a lor of money in Covid.
They hadn’t planned on being shut down by a global pandemic.
It’s an exceptional circumstance.
And the shut down was ordered by a Conservative government (quite rightly).
Please, you people in UK, can you not summarise heatwave history for a half dozen of your biggest cities and present it as evidence that there is no credible sign of heatwaves accelerating?
Here is a presentation for ASustralia’s capitals plus a couple more key locations for covering weather nationally.
It is just so nhard to argue against this. You might be able to get the BBC to view your own summary, then see what convolurtions they go to.
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A heatwave of Z days is defined as the hottest daily average of Z consecutive days in each year.
There are other ways to display the data, but the important part is to calculate the heatwave pattern.
If I give the full link to this rather large file, it will mess up the WUWT comments page we are on. I have deleted the last letter, being the g on jpg. Simply copy the partial link below, add a g and paste into your browser. Give it a little time, please.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/average 8 city.jp
Thanks for the chart, Geoff.
No Climate Crisis indicated there!
Tom Abbott,
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Please see later comment.
Geoff S
London Must….
Only a complete fool – and we’re not short of them – would pretend to understand what is incomprehensible and then go on to predict an outcome.
In what? Certainly, in the last 40 or 50 years every single prediction has fallen flat on its face; totally incorrect and way wide of the mark. And that [stating the obvious] is because they understand very little, indeed. Does one need to quote Donald Rumsfeld? The truly arrogant Mann will continue to believe he is right and everybody else is wrong and will even fabricate the evidence – nobly [prizely] – if necessary. Because it’s the right thing to do… done in good faith (ha!) etc
Has anybody yet familiarised themselves in the US with the new mantra?
‘What can be, unburdened by what has been.’
I wish I knew what it meant. Do you?
The ends justify any means — has been around a long time.
Well, that’s one interpretation
Here’s my take:
I can be your next President and eff things up so much you’ll never again be burdened by what Joe did.
They governments should make their own models and stop using the IPCC models which are clearly flawed.
London (or everyone) would do far better to use their resources to resist the Green Blob and/or to prepare for life in the UK (and elsewhere) if the Blob has its way.
story tip:
Another Major Automaker Is Rethinking Its EV Commitment
https://carbuzz.com/porsche-scales-back-ev-ambitions/
$175-grand for a Taycon! (looks like toycan)
Government bureaucrats are not very good at running private businesses.
Government bureaucrats are trying to run the automobile industry. How’s that working out? Obviously, it is a disaster for the automobile companies and their empolyees.
We need a lot of Housecleaning and Deregulation in our near future.
British Leyland for the win!😆
The World Meteorological Organization defines a heatwave as five or more consecutive days during which the daily maximum temperature surpasses the average maximum temperature by 5 °C (9 °F) or more.
UK met office no longer use the WMO definition, they changed it in 2018 to:
“A UK heatwave threshold is met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold, dependant on location”.
(currently that is just 28ºC max)
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/temperature/heatwave
I’m pretty sure we have not had a heatwave that meets the WMO definition anywhere in the UK for many, many years if not decades.
28C? Who are they trying to deceive? Your tax pounds at work!
Unless you count the 3rd to 10th September last year at Hurn Airport
Daily average maximum 20 C
Max temps of 26 to 29 for 8 days
From the article: “A government spokesperson said it welcomed the review and understood the “urgent need” to prepare for and adapt to changes posed by the climate emergency.”
What changes?
What Climate Emergency?
Delusional people, describing a world that doesn’t exist. Only in their heads.
Yes, London should be better prepared for harsh weather conditions which have existed in the past and will continue to occur in the future. This means:
Facts and the BBC exist in two different universes. Never the twain shall meet.
We were told last night that half the trees in Kew Gardens would be dead by late this century because of higher temperatures and climate change.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/kew-gardens-trees-climate-change-royal-botanic-gardens-drought-b1172047.html
They didn’t say whether it would be the top half or the bottom half!
“preparing London for more frequent and extreme climate risks was “non-negotiable””
Idiots. The type of people who accuse Trump of being a bully.
“The review said that in July 2022, when London hit 40°C, there was a 50% increase in water consumption, while reservoirs were at their lowest for 30 years…”
It’s been a warm summer here in Wokeachusetts- but reservoirs are full as hey haven’t been in generations. The landscape is far greener in mid summer than I’ve seen in my 74 years. Haven’t seen many bugs and I don’t miss them!
Same in Europe. The Greens do not seem overly excited. They want the bugs back.
In Holland it is clear it is way more lush green then ever. But the Greens ignore it.Compared to the 1960s and 70s almost everything about the environment is better. I remember big industries dumping toxic waste in the rivers back then, and flyash and no carbon filters. And so on.
We cleaned up. Together w more Co2, N and slightly higher temperatures things are much better now.
Despite the fact I haven’t seen many bugs (especially bees)- my fruit trees are loaded with fruit because of the better weather- especially no late spring frost that would damage the flowers (pears and apples). I hardly ever have to water the garden and flower beds thanks to all the rain. By the way, you are a citizen of The Netherlands? I’ve watch many YouTube videos of your country. Looks lovely. Too bad your government wants to ruin farming.
The Brits will have to start drinking cold beer and iced soft drinks. Oh the horror. /sarc
What’s the best way to prepare for all the dooming?
Governments have turned Australia into an ‘energy basket case’: Chris Kenny (msn.com)
Greenouts of course.
Wildfires? In London? The last one we had was in 1666. We’ve made great progress since then.
I wonder how much Emma Howard Boyd gets paid to sit on the board of Menhaden Resource Efficiency PLC: A UK-listed investment company that invests in businesses and opportunities, delivering or benefiting from the efficient use of energy and resources.
Sounds fishy to me.
Just wondering . . . if the Great Fog of London that occurred in 1952 happened today, wouldn’t it be blamed on “climate change”?
Going back even further, how about the Great Plague (aka “Black Death”) of 1665, which killed an estimated 100,000 Londoners . . . surely, climate change must lie at the root of that! In hindsight, the United Kingdom missed the opportunity then to become the first nation on the planet to front the meme of “climate change” as an existential threat.
/sarc