Attributing any particular flood to climate change is a tricky thing, given the range of factors that help contribute to flooding generally. (Look, even an opinion piece at The Guardian complains that a lot of current flooding is causing by poor infrastructure decisions.) But the more floods that appear the more it's fair to assume that the attribution studies will confirm the connection with increased flooding generally.
Fortunately, for England, their brand of conservatism is not tied to culture war denial of climate change:
The warnings came as George Eustice, the new environment secretary, admitted that the “nature of climate change” means the government cannot protect every household from extreme weather, such as recent storms which have brought flooding to parts of the UK.Why did Australian conservatism decide to follow the line of American conservative denialism, instead of the European path? Probably the IPA I would say - and at heart, the American and Australian conservative path was likely formed by mining interest funding to "think tanks". I would assume that limited mining (at least on land) in England means they have never been targeted in the same way.
“We’ll never be able to protect every single household just because of the nature of climate change and the fact that these weather events are becoming more extreme,” Mr Eustice told Sky News.
6 comments:
It is not all conservatives.
It is the anti-intellectual conservatives. The innumerate conservatives. Same in the UK as in the USA or here.
See you guys just get in the way. In the face of a world-wide soil crisis you insert your anti-scientific lies and stop any solution from occurring. Shame on you Homer. When did you get this stupid. You used to be sticky-minded sure. But not an outright dunce like today.
Did any of you science illiterates even know there was a global soil crisis? Fraud drives out real ecological concerns.
My guess is you could go over to Quiggins place and not one of these science fraud fetishists are going to know that there is a global soil crisis going and that this causes both droughts and floods. Science fraud makes people ignorant.
Where is it written that mainstream institutional science is in good shape? Where are you getting this nonsense from Steve? Its not like you understand the science yourself.
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