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UK Flooding & Rainfall–GWPF Factsheet

July 17, 2020
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By Paul Homewood

 

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The GWPF have just published their latest factsheet about UK flooding. Written by Harry Wilkinson and me, it can be read here.

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7 Comments
  1. robin Lambert permalink
    July 17, 2020 6:49 pm

    Sunspot cycle into 2nd of 11 years, meaning lack of Activity ,Dry Summers, Colder Wetter Winters and Springs Certainly following that pattern 2019,and so far in 2020

  2. oldbrew permalink
    July 17, 2020 10:40 pm

    No significant rainfall trends. Met Office climate ‘experts’ in cloud cuckoo land as usual.

    • ianprsy permalink
      July 18, 2020 10:09 am

      There does seem to be an upward trend in the charts shown. The least significant is England’s but they all end higher than they started. Doesn’t that give the alarmists some comfort?

  3. Broadlands permalink
    July 18, 2020 12:13 am

    As a percentage of the 1981-2010 average. How is that different from the 1961-1990 average or NASA’s 1950-1981 average? Or NOAA’s 20th century average?

    Absolute numbers not easy to find, rainfall or temperature.

  4. chaamjamal permalink
    July 18, 2020 2:42 am

    “This winter’s severe floods in the UK” is time constrained to a period less than 60 years and geographically constrained to a small segment of the globe and therefore these events are driven primarily by INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY and it is not possible to determine whether there is or whether there is not an anthropogenic global warming signal in these events.

    The answer is that we don’t know.

    Please see

    https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/07/16/the-internal-variability-issue/

  5. Vernon E permalink
    July 18, 2020 4:01 pm

    I think that its interesting that the current announcements about spending loads’a money on flood mitigation persists in the Canute approach – let’s hold the water back. This is nonsense as Canute found. The water has to get to the sea. I hold the EA responsible for most, if not all, flooding. When they took over from the Rivers and Canals Authorities and fired, for example, all the lock keepers they threw away centuries of accumulated wisdom and knowledge about how to manage the UK’s sometimes heavy rainfall. We need to get back to keeping the rivers dredged and cleared, the machinery (eg sluices) maintained properly and, if necessary, old restricting bridges replaced. But, the water MUST GET TO THE SEA.

  6. robin Lambert permalink
    July 18, 2020 10:12 pm

    Most Local Councils cleaned Drains and Dredged rivers in 1960s Various Environmental laws (Some EU directives) stopped this in 1980s …Time to do this and stop building on Farmland massive estates, I believe ”Runoff” stops when land is Concreted over?..water indeed has to find a way to the Sea ….With Mitrovich Sunspot decline in 2nd year of 11 year cycle,we Will have Wetter,Colder winters,and ”Dry” summers, not necessarily warm..2019 &so far 2019 have followed Similar Dry April ,May followed by ‘Wet” June,July ..in uk

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