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If The People In Charge Of Flood Defences In Northern England Were Given The Job Or Running Those In...
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...the Netherlands would it be like Lyonnesse, a drowned kingdom?
Is this problem just a matter of money, or the lack of it?
Is this problem just a matter of money, or the lack of it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's probably to do with knowing what is a reasonable level of protection. In the Netherlands they can justify a large priority budget. Spend billions on avoiding a once in a blue moon event and you'd be out on your ear for wasting public funds. Instead of trying to oppose natural flooding they ought to have barred building in areas liable to flood.
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It has been said over the last 2-5 years that these events are "once in a lifetime "
Tell that to the people of Cumbria and see what response you get. We have to accept that these events are now an everyday thing and we should be pulling our fingers out and doing something, not cutting the budgets every year.
Tell that to the people of Cumbria and see what response you get. We have to accept that these events are now an everyday thing and we should be pulling our fingers out and doing something, not cutting the budgets every year.
Such event used to be once in a lifetime but are now more frequent because the warmer oceans are evaporating more moisture into the clouds.
Moreover, the now smaller difference between arctic and tropical temperatures is causing the jet stream to slow and meander so weather patterns tend to stay in one place much longer.
Being located at the discharge of the Gulf Stream, the UK can expect a lot more flooding as the planet continues to warm.
Moreover, the now smaller difference between arctic and tropical temperatures is causing the jet stream to slow and meander so weather patterns tend to stay in one place much longer.
Being located at the discharge of the Gulf Stream, the UK can expect a lot more flooding as the planet continues to warm.
Yeah if Downing st were inundated it sure would be different ( in London )
I am not sure what happened in York ( it got flooded: yeah yeah got that bit ) where the barrage for the Foss was flooded and the pumps shorted so they opened the gates and er flooded somewhere else
Too often you hear of a low lying electricity substation in danger and the supply for 50 000 houses in danger of being cut off
cant they design these things up poles on platforms hovering or in some way above a flood plain ?
I am not sure what happened in York ( it got flooded: yeah yeah got that bit ) where the barrage for the Foss was flooded and the pumps shorted so they opened the gates and er flooded somewhere else
Too often you hear of a low lying electricity substation in danger and the supply for 50 000 houses in danger of being cut off
cant they design these things up poles on platforms hovering or in some way above a flood plain ?
protecting people and property isn't just about how big you can build walls, or not building houses in stupid places, or not building vulnerable infrastructure on stilts. it needs to be much more joined up than that.
http:// www.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-25 41773/D rowned- EU-mill ions-Th ought-e xtreme- weather -blame- floods- Wrong-T he-real -culpri t-Europ ean-sub sidies- pay-UK- farmers -destro y-trees -soak-s torm.ht ml
yeah yeah yeah, it's the daily mail, but the same subject matter was covered by BBC Countryfile (the difference being I can't find that online), so it's not all about political points scoring and blatant lying to make a better story.
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yeah yeah yeah, it's the daily mail, but the same subject matter was covered by BBC Countryfile (the difference being I can't find that online), so it's not all about political points scoring and blatant lying to make a better story.
One for the warmists.
http:// www.the guardia n.com/e nvironm ent/201 2/mar/1 4/met-o ffice-a rctic-s ea-ice- loss-wi nter
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