Another excellent post from Paul Homewood. Be sure to bookmark his blog for regular visits. This amounts to the govt trying to spin its way out of bearing responsibility for slack planning regs and inadequate water management. Building on flood plains leads to the flooding of homes.
By Paul Homewood
The saga continues!
To quickly recap, Lord Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency and formerly Labour MP Chris Smith, was interviewed by the Sunday Telegraph in February. Discussing floods, he told the Telegraph:-
“We are experiencing a new kind of rain.
Instead of rain sweeping in a curtain across the country, we are getting convective rain, which sits in one place and just dumps itself in a deluge over a long period of time. From the point of view of filling up the rivers and the drains, that is quite severe.”
This attracted much criticism from experienced meteorologists, such as Bill Giles, who wrote to the Telegraph to complain:-
“There is nothing new about convective rain. Perhaps next time he should get a meteorologist to check his answers so that he doesn’t appear so ignorant of simple straightforward facts.”
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That they are caught out is excellent – that they think it’s acceptable to continue lobbing mendacious evidence free FUD bombs into the public arena is just wrong- and actually they’re not allowed to do that by their own statutory / legally enforceable code of conduct.
I won’t block up the comments with the references – the curious can check out our venting on the matter over at Avoncliff Mill
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