JTL
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Litterbugs war mongers hate mongers propagandists.
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There used to be a hell of a lot more ground to take that water and yes we are going through some troublesome climate change but there's nothing we can do about it as it's not of our doing.Sorry but that is rubbish.
Flood defenses etc have changed the floodplains in 2000 to make the flooding less. If those changes had not been made, the flooding would have been a lot worse and more frequent this century.
The term "first time in a century" could be an inaccurate turn of phrase, a generalisation.
I have the river Severn at the end of my drive this week. It should be half a mile away usually. Locals whose families have farmed here for generations are talking about not only the increase in flooding this past 10 years, but also the increase in heaviness of rainfall and winds. Both in the speed of the winds, and the direction it comes from.
I sit here, looking at the flooded farm opposite, feeling irritated by the point scoring going on by anti climate change people who only talk about one aspect, not the whole picture.
Wind speed and direction changes, rainfall pattern and heaviness changes, flooding, and the length storms and weather systems hang around are all factors in climate change. Globally and in each country.
Yes, I am worried and concerned about how much more rain my ground can take.
After all that coal oil and natural gas burning a bigger global population more land covered in concrete etc a huge change in agriculture etc etc the global average temperature has risen by less than one degree C .... with all that help from us.
It has often risen much higher must faster and dropped by more quite rapidly too .... that's the historical reality of climate.
Read the story of King Cnut and how he tried to show the people that mere humans cannot control the ocea tides or much else of anything to do with natural systems that we live with but the lesson has been forgotten .... we must stop flying we must stop driving we must stop eating meat .... a lot of panic about something we have no control over.
I live in N Wales and am surrounded by flooded feilds that have been lakes for a couple of weeks now we have roads closed and bridges damaged so I can see it all quite clearly and plainly.