Originally Posted by
man in the park:
“Sweet FA to do with global warming. Keep building on flood plains and below lying rivers this will always happen. Its been happening for years. Is it a coincidence that there is a big climate jamboree going on in paris at the same time that there is all this scare mongering on climate.
Common sense goes out the window.
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Originally Posted by
Ashford Steve:
“Tell the people of Carlisle and Cockermouth that they are scaremongering, idiot.
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Originally Posted by bobcar:
“Common sense is not something I associate with your posts. Why follow the evidence when you can can make a judgement based upon your own wishes and political dogma?”
'Political dogma' works both ways. We had a storm, which caused flooding in flood plains, unsurprisingly. Cut-backs in flood defences and increasingly laying tarmac over large open spaces are easily dismissed when invoking the Climate Change mantra. Even the Met Office has joined in this quasi-religion.
The scientific facts are: NO global warming for almost 19 years, Antarctic ice is increasing, the weak short-term correlation between carbon dioxide and temperature increase proves nothing about causation. Climate science is NOT settled, yet saying that labels one a denier/heretic bordering on criminal.
The fact that the Met has started giving names like Desmond to common weather events is not only infantile but smacks of conditioning/social engineering. Anthropomorphise a weather event and it becomes an entity which is actively attacking us, creating the perception that we need to defend or 'fight back' in some way (such as cutting carbon emissions). Naming it also gives the impression that it must be a worse storm since we had never named them before. So any storm with a name will be perceived as 'worse'.