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Worse to come in UK floods

1/1/2016

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There is a conveyor belt of deep depressions heading for the UK and to make things worse a high pressure system sitting over Russia is going to block them so that they keep dumping rain and can't move away.
​I dont think that this part of climate change was forecast.

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Bob Bristow
11/1/2016 12:39:37 pm

Thanks for the news and wishing you a happy & prosperous new year. Certainly physical laws make it possible for warmer air to have more water vapour and a wonky jet stream can have dramatic & destabilizing weather effects. A strong warning contained in yesterday's Herald Scotland.


Revealed: scientists warn climate changes means wild weather in Scotland is the 'new normal'


Experts canvassed by the Sunday Herald warn that we will have to get used to more winters like this one, as climate pollution from vehicles and industry warms the globe and wreaks havoc with the weather. Without action to curb carbon emissions, they say, it is likely to get much worse.

“There is no natural weather any more,” declared Professor James Curran, the former chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and a leading climate expert. “The world is now warmer by one degree centigrade than it would be without climate change – so there is no weather anywhere, at any time, that isn’t man-made these days.”

It was wasting time to endlessly debate to what extent the current bad weather was caused by climate pollution, he argued. After last month’s climate summit in Paris, the priority was to tackle the problem.

“It’s been long predicted and is almost certain now that, whatever we do, flooding both from the sea and from rivers will become more severe and at least twice as frequent by 2100,” he said.



http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/14194010.Revealed__scientists_warn_climate_changes_means_wild_weather_in_Scotland_is_the__new_normal_/

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Bob Bingham
11/1/2016 09:25:03 pm

I forgot to wish you happy New year and let's hope for better news. Bob.

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Bob Bingham
11/1/2016 04:52:49 pm

Scotland is much more pragmatic than England where there is still a lot of denial. The floods of two years ago are never mentioned. Nobody is joining up the dots.

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