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Post by marchesarosa on May 2, 2012 1:28:17 GMT 1
 The Australian drought, which the Bureau of Meteorology thought was permanent, necessitating the building of hugely expensive desalination plants (now mothballed), ended with the Queensland floods. The UK Met Office has also been caught out believing its own alarmist predictions of continuing dearth of rainfall in the South East. This latest faux pas over predicted continuing drought puts the Met Office's previous unfulfilled warmest predictions of "barbecue summers" and the "end of snow" somewhat in the shade, to use a weather metaphor. It's not surprising, though, that the dolts at the Bureau of Meteorology and the Met Office succumb to these sorts of error because they are a self-selected, self-recruited bunch of climate alarmists with a shared delusion about CO2 who have, along with their governments, produced insane "climate control" and energy policies. Time for a sweep out at the Met Office, I think. They have made themselves and the government a laughing stock, again. |
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Post by marchesarosa on May 2, 2012 2:23:28 GMT 1
.......is it illegal to use a hosepipe to drain your garden?
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Post by marchesarosa on May 2, 2012 2:27:13 GMT 1
....And all this rain is wasted because the water companies haven't invested in reservoirs.
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Post by marchesarosa on May 2, 2012 2:27:42 GMT 1
 The return of the floods: The River Severn turns Tewkesbury Abbey into a virtual island after days of heavy rain in an unwelcome reminder of the devastating floods of 2007  ---------- The old builders knew a thing or two about flood plains, and where to locate their abbeys didn't they? You never hear of them being flooded. They stand higher than the rivers they were built alongside for good reason. Floods are neither new nor unusual. So-called "extreme" weather is a normal part of the natural variability we experience in this island. Why have so-called planners forgotten these lessons? |
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Post by principled on May 2, 2012 16:03:14 GMT 1
Hi Marchesa I lay the blame firmly at the door of water companies. In my lifetime, the UK population has increased by 40%...but the reservoir capacity? Unfortunately, I can only find this about future plans and nothing about previous works from 1950. www.globalwaterintel.com/archive/8/7/general/666-and-rising-uk-reservoir-plans-in-the-spotlight.htmlActually, hosepipe bans shouldn't affect me because of the following. I extended my house (which was built on the site of a couple of demolished cottages). After the extension was finished, I had to remove some earth to bring the garden level down to the damp course. As I "merrily" removed the earth, there was a sudden "glump" and some earth disappeared. On investigating, I found that an old, brick- lined well had been covered by railway sleepers when the house was constructed and earthed over. I've now made it a garden feature and if the hosepipe ban continues, I'll drop down a pump and use my well water! I suspect I'll find that this is illegal as all ground water is owned by the local water company!!!  P |
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Post by marchesarosa on May 2, 2012 16:48:41 GMT 1
It was a foregone conclusion, principled, which I remarked on at the time, that privatisation would mean the end of reservoir building in the UK. The shareholders must come first.
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Post by StuartG on May 2, 2012 20:59:11 GMT 1
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Post by StuartG on May 2, 2012 21:19:12 GMT 1
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Post by marchesarosa on May 3, 2012 0:59:46 GMT 1
Thanks for that article, stu. Bloody asset strippers!
I was watching a prog on tv tonight that explained much of the southeast, including London is dependent upon borehole extraction for water. It brought to mind the map we had to draw in geography at school of London's artesian basin. I had completely forgotten about that. Obviously, with that resource, reservoirs were not so essential. But, with massive population growth in the southeast and ever greater water use per capita boreholes aren't enough.
I wonder how much of this problem is REALLY because of "two dry winters" and how much is simply due to increasing unsustainable extraction because of population growth and increased consumption per capita in the region?
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