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.
She flew to Greenland four years ago to call it a “climate breakdown”.
https://www.facebook.com/environmentagency/videos/emma-howard-boyd-in-greenland/541365229969586/
To late : London has just been wiped out by a boiling sharknado.
For UK readers,
Earlier I tried a file to show UK people that heatwaves in big cities were not accellerating. Did not work properly.
Please try this big Excel file.
I am suggesting that to counter heatwave claims, you need to show heatwave data to places like BBC.
Here is what I have done for Australia.
If you want to do it for UK, I am happy to process your data for you. Just need unadjusted daily Tmax for (say) 10 largest UK cities.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/eightheatwave2022.xlsx
Nice Paul. Sitting on our backside and presenting facts to us that the other side are liars isn’t helpful. We need to go after Emma and people like her. We need to call out her lies publicly and show why she is a liar using things like these charts. You won’t get anywhere playing nice with these mongrels. Time to get tough and mean if we have to.
The report highlighted opportunities for investment in London but warned that time was running out to act on climate resilience.
Time is always running out for these people but it never actually runs out. We are simply in a permanent state of time running out. Which is good news, really, as it means that we don’t actually need to worry about “time running out”.
It also found that government and businesses had not adequately planned for the disruption caused when (high levels of immigration) impacts “cascade” through critical systems such as healthcare, transport, energy and water.
Don’t think that report is ever going to be written by anybody commissioned by the Mayor of London.
The BBC now have a Verify department to test the truth of that which is broadcast. That is supposed to be a reassurance? They have set themselves as the arbiter of last resort. To think that this is the same organisation that bans all that is contrary-wise to their view of climate warming establishes that there is only one truth and this in a science that has only recently started to look at the Jet Stream as a weather arbiter. How the people who floated the idea of phlogiston would have welcomed such a stance, or those whose medicine was based on ‘humours’ could be assured in their practise only serves to indicate that successive generations have only advanced through the challenging of precepts. Each era has thrown-up genius only for discourse to supersede them and originality to conquer transient beliefs. But to have an organisation that asserts its ministry of truth credentials does not take a genius to see how superstition, politics, convention can be deployed to mire us in this moment. The truth in the hands of the all seeing is ant-scientific, where facts only hold true until challenged only to be replaced and, commonly, by novelty and stubbornness, shelving convention. Where education has demanded the regurgitation of the known world which then goes on to blight our lives with its stereotypicality. Think of all the poor blighters having to tow the line under the threat of job security. To convey the truth of the propagandist, especially those in the Civil Service model, awful subversion.
Story Tip: from: Not a Lot of People Know That.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/university-of-reading-advertise-for-climate-storyteller/