Flooding, storms and tiddlywinks

[nevermind, neoliberalism has had it 159]

Whilst Norfolk villages and towns are still mopping up, a new storm front is poised to hit our weaterlogged soils. We are also being told that the EA is to loose some 1700 staff.http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2174726/union_warns_1700_job_losses_at_environment_agency_will_increase_flood_risk.htmlfact is that consequetive Governments have adopted managed retreat, a permissive stance that does very little, when we could be buying time and be in control over the loss of land for some time. We can''t stop the sea rising or our eastern seaboard sinking, but we can buy time and safe some money in the process. How? By building a wash barrier for 2 billion we will safe the costs of two nuclear power stations and all the complications that come with it. Thats how much a tidal energy scheme would produce. Off course there should also be a lock system providing access for fishing boats and the 150 ships that annually sail tyo Kings Lynn and Boston.The ecology would not change to a great extend as the water will still ebb and flow, just through l;arge turbines, the salinity might drop a little but not by much and birds will still be attracted. So what 6 billion business in the fenlands needs to be protected from a storm surge, why such precaution you might think? Because it makes sense, both economically and business sense.If Government would enpower insurance industries to invest the monies and reap the returns from the energy schemes, then this would cost us zilch, but save two pressurised water reactors, which I regard as a good deal.So, why are they playing tiddly winks during their COBRA meeting? Because they are bereft of ideas, have sold their souls to the plutonium producing nuclear process and have run out of money for sticky plasters!

[Joanna Grey 0]

"The ecology would not change to a great extend as the water will still ebb and flow, just through l;arge turbines, the salinity might drop a little but not by much and birds will still be attracted."

All the major wildlife protectorates are strongly against this scheme. It would spell disaster for every creature that uses the Wash.

[nevermind, neoliberalism has had it 159]

[quote user="Joanna Grey"]"The ecology would not change to a great extend as the water will still ebb and flow, just through l;arge turbines, the salinity might drop a little but not by much and birds will still be attracted."

All the major wildlife protectorates are strongly against this scheme. It would spell disaster for every creature that uses the Wash.[/quote]Thank you for your contribution, oh allknowing, so how many people dying in a storm surge can these ''wildlife protectorates'' as you call them, justify? I mean its a disaster if ten seals are washed out to sea or the lesser spotted dickschniepler does not make an appeaancer as expected by the tweeting twitchers, we can all see that, but what do these ecological wise cracks say about human casualties and storm surges, please do tell us Mr. doabsolutelynothing, whats your answer to loosing the Fenlands to saltwater?

[Joanna Grey 0]

My plan would be to buy some larger, cheaper properties in Peterborough and convert them into seafront Hotels.

[nevermind, neoliberalism has had it 159]

Owen paterson looked insecure and forlorn when he weaseled abour spending 2.3 billion on sea defences and flooding, whilst in the same breath reducing staff, what a clever trick.But hang on, why does this increased flooding happen, tewsbury was under water two years ago and then it were once in a hundred year floods. so two years later they are faced with the same dilemma again.The media is holding back on reporting the full extend of flooding and nobody dares to ask questions as to what this has to do with global warming,well some are making the connections.http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/01/linking-uk-floods-and-climate-change-a-discussion-notable-by-its-absence/

[Joanna Grey 0]

nevermind wrote the following post at 07/01/2014 4:00 PM:

"The media is holding back on reporting the full extend of flooding and nobody dares to ask questions as to what this has to do with global warming..."

Apart from the flooding being the lead story in all of the MSM and also this;

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/07/england-floods-budget-cuts

[nevermind, neoliberalism has had it 159]

Thanks for that JG, and they bare all making the connection between global warming and these now frequent opccurences, off course, denial would be daft would it not?

[Herman 9,838]

There you go. Even Cameron thinks it may be linked.