Re: Katrina, British style

On Jul 24, 7:44 am, John Larkin
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:36:08 -0700, James Arthur

<dagmargoodb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 24, 5:55 am, John Larkin
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article2127616.ece

John

Oh heavens let's hope not.

Well, it's another case where everybody knew for years that it would
storm/rain, and the proper preparations were not made,

The readers' comments suggest it might be worse--several remark on
increased runoff due to extensive urbanization, and siting
developments on flood plains. I.e., not just inaction, but actively
man-made.

and the costs
will be extreme. Makes you want to re-read The Nine Tailors, where the
same situation was remarked on.

The necessary money was spent elsewhere.



At least there's been no hurricane to knock out power and
communications first, and the waters (that I saw) were awful, but not
20 feet deep. Let's hope everything works out for our British
friends.

The comments to the above link were interesting. Here's another
(link):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article2127599.ece

I can't read a restaurant review these days without Global Warming
being lamented.

"It is tempting to blame the appalling weather on climate change,
which is believed to increase the chances of extreme rainfall events.
But one wet summer on its own proves very little. In fact, the top ten
wettest Julys all happened two or three centuries ago."

LA Times style, that's paragraph 14. Paragraphs 1 though 13 as much
as say that greenhouses gasses converge over the UK to make it rain on
London.

What suprised me were the skeptical comments left by readers of both
articles. In the USA those people would be shouted down and ridiculed
as 'denyers.'

Best,
James

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