The UK ‘Global Warming’ Racket

Excerpt from Philip Stott:

What politicians and divines fail to grasp is that ‘global warming’ has become a portmanteau excuse for bad land-use planning on the ground. Ill-judged land management over the last 60 years - since the serious flooding of the late-1940s - has guaranteed an increase in damaging floods, climate change or no climate change. We have consistently reduced the ability of both urban and rural landscapes to act as a ‘sponge’, while building poorly-constructed housing on flood plains (some 80 per cent of the housing experiencing flooding this summer was built since the 1970s). By glib recourse to ‘global warming’ explanations, we let politicians and planners off the hook, while forgetting that Britain has a fundamentally wet climate.

In essence, it is immensely difficult to relate local weather patterns to ‘global warming’, which is about a long-term, small, average change in the climate worldwide. On the other hand, our abuse of the landscape as a rainfall ‘sponge’ is another matter. Housing on flood plains, too much tarmac, every garden concreted over for the car, water meadows built-over, and winter wheat on the hills will all inevitably lead to disaster, whatever the climate.

And, if we don’t improve our land management, we will need even more SUVs to save folk from the floods. ‘Global warming’ is too 'wet' an explanation - a nice excuse for failing politicians.

The truth is more down-to-earth.

So let’s drop the ‘global warming’ racket. “Game, Set, and Match!”