From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
The same old scaremongering from the BBC:
Researchers have produced an in depth “future flood map” of Britain – simulating the affect of flooding as local weather change takes its toll.
It has revealed that annual harm attributable to flooding might enhance by greater than a fifth in in the present day’s phrases over the following century.
That could possibly be lowered if pledges to scale back international carbon emissions are met.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/information/science-environment-64866058
In the meantime again in the actual world, actual flood consultants have analysed historic flood tendencies, and located that the proportion of the inhabitants in danger has really declined since 1870 in Britain:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04253-1
The identical examine concludes that normalised financial losses have fallen sharply for the reason that Nineteen Fifties throughout Europe as a complete, as has the variety of folks affected in England:
And a 2014 examine by Stevens et al discovered no long run tendencies in flooding within the UK, as soon as allowance was made for brand new home construct on flood plains; certainly there was a marked decline within the incidence of essentially the most extreme floods:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02626667.2014.950581
However the BBC prefers the make-believe laptop simulations!