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Floods 'not linked to climate change'
11:56am Tuesday 11th March 2008
By The Page Turner »
Scientists have found last summer's floods in Oxfordshire were a freak event and not linked to climate change.
The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology said the amount of rainfall between May and July was "remarkable".
But the high levels of rain do not fit with trends towards drier, hotter summers and wetter winters expected under climate change models.
Report author Terry Marsh said: "The river floods of summer 2007 were a very singular episode, which does not form part of any clear historical trend or show consistency with currently favoured climate change scenarios."
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Max Beran, Didcot, Oxon says...
3:00pm Wed 12 Mar 08
But will it have any effect on public agency position statements and forecasts, ministerial pronouncements, insurance company premium hikes, or green lobbyists' hysterical forecasts? Certainly nothing has thus far quenched the stream of scare stories and damaging policy responses from those quarters so I have my doubts that this one will make much difference either. It is just too good a story and valuable a pretext to make money to give up in the face of the facts.
Mr Ison, England says...
3:13pm Wed 12 Mar 08
Only a Cnut pushes a religion and taxes for it.
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Mr Ison, England says...
9:26pm Tue 11 Mar 08
The sun shines at the center of the solar system and is not a warmers gustatory hallucination.