Death Valley Record high temp, 3 degrees LOWER than 1913

Well, If you ignore the fossil fuels required to build these mills, and their potential inefficiency and cost of maintenance, along with a bit of namecalling, I am sure it will convince a few people in this country.  However, from what I can tell almost 80% of the UK's energy came from fossil fuels where 4% came from windpower.

Me. How can I deal with it, what are you on about? 

You may not have noticed but our road surfaces are a bit rough. And our surface water drainage as it stands cannot cope with the new Mediterranean weather we are enjoying. 

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/03/rain-sparks-flash-flood-travel-chaos-across-south-east/
The Telegraph, so must be true. 

 

Pah - fitting drains is so 19th century.

We (as a species) have perfected the ability to live quite comfortably in extremes of temperature from -40c to +50c.

The argument that the UK could not adapt to an increase in average temps of 1.5 degrees is absolute nonsense.

Are you now saying that in the UK climate change isn't happening at all? That the weather in the UK is the same as its always been. If so its a new low. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=Climate%20change%20is%20impacting%20the,rise%20is%20impacting%20coastal%20areas.

We're not in the EU. Haven't been for 7 years. But in any case all the rules said was that you can't dump dredging waste on the bank of the river. Waste was NOT soil, it was shopping trolleys and beer bottles. 
Further flash flooding is not about how quickly water can escape once it reaches the rivers, its about that water before it reaches the rivers. 

Yes I know, in Noahs day it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. In 200 BC it rained frogs. You can always find exceptions, but thenthey were exceptions, now they are the rule. 

Again. FLASH FLOODING. not amount of rain annually. Our rain patterns are changing as the climate warms. Our infrastructure is not. 

Zanygame said: "We're not in the EU. Haven't been for 7 years. But in any case all the rules said was that you can't dump dredging waste on the bank of the river. Waste was NOT soil, it was shopping trolleys and beer bottles.
Further flash flooding is not about how quickly water can escape once it reaches the rivers, its about that water before it reaches the rivers."

There's a bit more to it than that. Of course we're not in the EU now but, when the EU declared dredgings to be hazardous waste, the Environment Agency sold all their dredging machines and farmers stopped routinely doing dredging. There was actually a perfectly valid reason for the EU wanting to control dredging because many rivers in Europe tend to run through several countries. The EU realised that river management must be done consistently over the WHOLE river - if one country decides to dredge or put flood barriers on their bit of the river the inevitable result is that the next country downstream gets flooded.

So your kneejerk reaction to deny as lies any statement that you think is passing blame to the EU is misplaced. It's in fact our own govt who also screwed up our flood control by only allowing flood barriers on bits of the river that met various arbitrary criteria. This led to flooding in many areas which had never been flooded before. The Jubilee canal also exacerbated flooding.

And flash flooding is NOT "a new phenomena (sic)". A few miles away from me they've built a huge new estate - because of govt demands for more housing, The amusing thing is that the area that they've built the estate on is a flood plain. The land belonged to a local farmer but he never did anything with it because it regularly flooded - several feet deep and lasting months. Obviously to get planning permission the builders have had to put in anti-flood measures, but these basically involve diverting water to the nearest river. And the predictable result will simply be that the town a few miles down the river will get flooded. And that flooding will happen very fast. It's crazy and everyone knows it. They've been lucky so far because there's hardly been any real rain for months but it's just a matter of time. And I bet when the flooding happens the councillors who approved this huge development will blame climate change.