Do you really think the recent floods are down to global warming?
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Nope.
But building on cheap lands with shoddy civil engineering seemed like SUCH a good idea at the time. I'm sure that city planners would love it if global warming would be the fall guy.
No I hadn't. Thanks for enlightening me
I was thinking it was the rain.
perhaps really its a matter of preferance
no these floods were nothing to do with global warming, it was simply very wet (which it often is in the UK).
The news has been annoying me because they keep on saying things such as flash floods or extreme weather. But it wasn't that extreme, all it was was heavy rain which saturated the ground and the rain continued to fall so got into the rivers where because we have been stupid enough to build on the natural floodplanes they spilt over and damaged homes.
This is nothing new, we have always had very wet weather. The fact that it happened in June was a little surprising but not completely unheard of.
This was nothing to do with global warming it is just due to a sustained period of bad weather and some poor town planning.
It is the continual amount of rain that is unusual. Call it what you want. Tornado's? Strange weather all around. Yes, I agree we did not plan ahead. Substandard pipes, poor drainage, blocked canals and sewers that can't handle anything. Partially due to our lack of ability to properly dispose of waste. It is a combination of errors and a world incapable of accepting the facts nor change habits. Thank you.
True, but also is the fact the earth has heated up and cooled down for millions of years. We are due as our climate has been stable for very long time. I am not convinced about global warming.
no not really i believe the globe is warming up but its a cycle the earths makes over its life time. We had harsh droughts in 1890s and freezing conditions in 1950s. The fact is there is always going to be natural Disasters, this is cased by facters that mankind cant alter or change.
Of course not. I bet you still believe in the boogeyman.
It is often wet during the the late part of June, look at how often they are running late on Wimbledon due to rain. There is no doubt that the continued building on flood plains is not helping. But also as individuals we are concreting front gardens for extra parking, and therefore getting more "run off" rather than water soaking into the garden.
A lot of mature trees have been cut down and these absorb huge amounts of water from the soil. But the one I heard in all seriousness on Radio 4 last week was blaming sheep:-
the number of sheep in the upland areas has doubled in the last 20 years and the extra sheep are treading down the soil and therefore the rain runs off not soaking in.
Honestly?
Maybe not where your from but the rest of the world are having tornado's were they have never had them before !! The ice caps are melting this is a fact and polar bears are running out of ice to hunt on!! The snow packs here just about caused some major flooding that has not been seen since 1946 but we have better dams now but it doesn't seem to matter !! The world is changing !! Weather patterns are out of whack!! One day it's hot then the next day it's almost freezing!! I've never seen it like this before and I've been around for a long time!! I believe it's more than just a failure to dredge or the building on flood plains at least not here!!
It's a mistake to link any specific weather events to global warming. Short term weather is just short term weather.
It can be said that, over the long haul, global warming will generally make weather more extreme. Global warming raises heat levels overall, and heat is the fuel of storms. And it increases differences between the upper atmosphere and the lower, which also tends to cause more severe storms.
Saying the floods are related to global warming is bad science. Saying we're likely to see more extreme weather events as a general thing is quite correct.
The recent floods are to do with man's interventions. In the UK to comply with building regulations and planning all rainwater must be channeled away from buildings and roads. Farmers use intensive farming and agricultural methods (heavy machinery which compacts soil and leeches nutrients) which means that the soil is no longer open soil that drains water away. On top of this more and more of our land is being built on and more and more roads are being constructed.
So in short, instead of draining water away we should be keeping water on the land/gardens where it is needed. Instead we are covering more and more of the land with asphalt (bitumen).
Removal of trees and forests also means that the land is now over illuminated. This means that the temperature gradient is no longer conducive to the absorption of cool rain. Try this simple experiment: Take some water from the fridge and try watering a dry pot plant. Then do the same with warm water and see what the difference is. You will notice that the warm water is absorbed more easily. Now if you put the pot plant in the fridge then try the experiment again you will find that the cooler water can now be absorbed more easily. So hot illuminated fields ie plowed and not shaded by woods do not absorb water as well.
Try pouring water onto your patio then try pouring water at the roots of a tree. Notice the difference?
Drainage systems are not designed to carry so much water at once. However, Nature is perfectly designed to disperse large amounts of water and store it. If we let her. So it is because of asphalt. We are asses and its our fault (asphalt = assfault).
no, no, and HELL no!
I thought it was the removing of water absorbing wetlands and the vegetation that thrives in those wetlands along with the animals that dwell there. I could be wrong...but it's highly unlikely that any man-made structures are suitable to replace mother nature.
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I don't know much about the flooding you have experienced up there.. but here in Sydney flooding is caused by urbanisation. Too much rain water hits hardstand, paved or tiled roof surfaces and it is then discharged into the street curb where it is meant to flow through pipes leading to channels, into rivers and discharge pipes on beaches and out to sea. If only we harvested more of that water. If only we cleaned it up a bit before it meets the rivers and the ocean.. if only we stored it before it left our properties. I suspect I could harvest at least 200,000 litres of rain water every year from my little house and its small parcel of land... now I suppose that we use about 800 litres a day.. I mean we try to conserve it but.. we are a family of five and we get a lot of visitors... ... but that would cut our reliance on town purified water back to about 1/3rd of its present use. If everyone did that.. we would have the most beautiful natural waterways in the world here in Sydney, I think. and they wouldn't need dredging would they?
NO!! It's ALL due to global warming!! There's an AGENDA - facts be damned!!! Julio Lugo can't hit the ball out of the outfield and the reason is GLOBAL WARMING!!
global warming
global warming is an increase in average temperature of the earths atmosphere.we are putting large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air, and it "blankets" up in the atmosphere trapping warm air in the earth.
global warming is melting the artic. the artic is the earths natural air conditioner. without the earth will become unbearibly hotter. if the artic fully melts the ocean will rise 20 feet. think of every foot of the ocean having an extra 20 feet of water on it. places will flood. one place in india, home to 60 million people will flood. the world trait centre memorial would be under water. in the year 2050 it is estimated the artic will be ful,ly melted . huge amounts of people will be starving and looking for a home. a million species of animals will be extinct.
things you can do:
-change a regular lightbulb to a compact florescent lightbulb
-walk instead of driving more often
-for your washing maching use cold water instead of hot
-install a low flow shower head for your shower
global warming is not a joke. be part of the solution, not part of the problem!
Global warming is caused by mankind who failed to discipline themselve with the luxuries they been enjoying on earth. Allowing themselve to indulge imprudent behaviour in lifestyle,business,social activities and so on without thinking of the ensueing consequences like wastages, by-products, noxious gases emitting the atmosphere thus resulting in the thinning of the ozone layer.
When the stratosphere corrects itself naturally, it increases the rotating speed of the earth because it depends on the ceiling or height of the stratosphere and mountains for the wind to maintain it speed and velocity.
In addition, man made artificial rivers like the one that been progressing between Thailand and Malaysia for more than 25years which changes the natural flow of the sea contributing to the obstructions of planetary movement and gravitational aspect which based on the land mass.
Invariably,global warming causes the ice melting at the northpole and southpole of the earth too.
We are witnessing what is happening and everyone of us is responsible one way or another and we do really think.
Before the "in" word global warming came about watching nature was a good indication of the weather to come. Hopefully the deluge we are experiencing points to a hot late summer.
Also this is Wimbledon fornight and going back through the years how often has this been disrupted by rain.
It is obvious that we have not looked after the planet as we should and for every argument "for" their is an argument against.
Some scientists claim that this has happened millions of years ago, but who told them or where di they read it?
has the hole always been there ,and it is only that to days advancement in science can tell us that it is there,
come on we have had extremes in weather since the world began I believe that the whole global warming is a load of b*****s
No.
IM convinced it down to de forrestation.
95% of the redwood forrest in the usa is now gone.
In only a hundred years.FACT
I now acurate stats for the other areas so im sure its down to cutting down the forrests.
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