Floods have happened before
I watched the media reports of the storms hitting the UK in equal measure of horror at the events, and great sadness for the people effected. Yet one thing struck me with all the reports, and I give 3 examples; these are the worst floods since 1899; in 100 years; in 200 years? So this has happened before, and do we deduce that those incidents were down to climate change?
Were warnings given to the people then, that Armageddon was upon them, for I can find no record of this?
As I look around our area, and see acres of farmland being built upon, I am minded that the water that once fell on that land and was soaked up, is now collected into drains that rapidly discharge into water courses that rapidly discharge into rivers, with no account having been taken of the implications for that? Climate change has come as a supreme smoke screen for the Department of the Environment, to cover the incompetent way they have managed our rivers and countryside. Straightening out rivers; ceasing to dredge them, and ignoring local knowledge as they come along with their “qualifications” of know all arrogance.
Why were water treatment plants and sewage works allowed to be built on flood plains with no precautions taken, and housing built, again in denial of flooding taking place?
If we take the most extreme measures, as advocated by extinction rebellion, then the CO2 in the atmosphere would be reduced by, at most 1%, and that is going to save the planet, having spent £trillions? Just one final query; how do the extremists justify the repeated vandalism they are doing, and how is that going to save the planet?
By not having an “open” mind, and instead following a prescribed agenda of intolerance to any other thoughts, using fear as the strategy, is not a rational for problem resolution, and statistics will tell one everything if, you torture them long enough.
In conclusion it is a fact that there is insufficient carbon in the atmosphere to support the trillions of additional trees being planned?
Steve Vickers