Poll: Who is to blame for the floods?

[Troll]

It looks to me like a combination of things

EA - parking ground for failed politicians and quangocrats
EA - deliberate policy of allowing 'low value' areas to flood
EA - Allowing green groups to have a big say in policy (WWF)
Gov - Not keeping an eye on the ball, allowing the quango to mushroom
Met Office - Warning Somerset to expect a dry winter due to 'climate change'
Smith - for being useless at everything except having chins
Treasury - for concocting a stupid 'value for money' rule (possibly - not verified yet)
EU - for imposing stupid limitations and rules on the EA

Wasn't one this Govt's pledges to do away with all the quangos?

[amcdonald]

Lefty warmists at the EA

[vetran]

This is not a survey in the Wail

you don't think a large increase of inhabitants in the area could have had an effect?

it was rather tongue in cheek but if you are that closed mind you should think more.

[CheeseSlice]

it was rather tongue in cheek but if you are that closed mind you should think more.

I know it was, as was my tongue in cheek response

[CheeseSlice]

Lefty warmists at the EA

SKYNews

Climate Change 'To Blame' For Storms
Updated: 9:46am UK, Sunday 09 February 2014

Climate change is almost certainly to blame for the severe weather that has caused chaos across Britain in recent weeks, the Met Office's chief scientist has said.

Dame Julia Slingo said there was not yet "definitive proof" but that "all the evidence" pointed to a role for the phenomenon.

The Met Office's latest analysis finds that persistent rainfall over Indonesia and the tropical West Pacific triggered the weather system that has sent wave after wave of storms across the Atlantic to the UK.

It says: "The severe weather in the UK coincided with exceptionally cold weather in Canada and the USA.

"These extreme weather events on both sides of the Atlantic were linked to a persistent pattern of perturbations to the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean and North America.

[Zero Liability]

The sun (as in the shiny object in space, not the newspaper)?

[EternalOptimist]

SKYNews

Yes well done. They predicted a dry winter, using their brilliant computer models.

now they are explaining why we had lots of rain and flooding.


another organisation where we think we know what they are supposed to be doing, but are left wondering 'what actual use are they ?'

[SueEllen]

you don't think a large increase of inhabitants in the area could have had an effect?

it was rather tongue in cheek but if you are that closed mind you should think more.

If the gov - local and national - allow building on flood plains then yes it does have an effect.

I know because some of the now flooded areas aren't far from me but if you look at the news pictures work out how new some of the houses are.

[Bacchus]

SKYNews

To go with the whole quote, slingo came up with the WEAKEST argument I have heard in my puff:-

"There is no evidence to counter the basic premise that a warmer world will lead to more intense daily and hourly rain events."

me, me, me, it's raining so I'm right...

there is also no evidence to refute that this has happened loads of times before, and will happen loads of times again. IT DOESN'T ******* PROVE ANYTHING.

stupid cow*

*actually, she's not stupid, but she should know better than this

[Flashman]

Interesting reading. Truthful?

Inside the Environment Agency - Welcome to Inside the Environment Agency

They should have asked where all the £1200 million spent last year went. Why was only £20 m spent on maintaining ditches and culverts? Why so little on dredging? Why have dredging machines been sold off for scrap or allowed to rust without use in some places? Why did the INCREASE in the staff budget, £30m, exceed the total spend on essential maintenance

ouch.