The science of flooding
Aug 20, 2014
Bishop Hill in Climate: WG2, Deben

Anthony has an interesting report about a new paper that finds that increased flooding is mostly due to increased exposure - in other words that we are building homes closer to rivers than before. Flooding is therefore yet another area in which an impact from the warming at the end of last century is yet to be demonstrated.

Is there any justification for the kind of ambulance chasing exhibited by the Committee on Climate Change, for example this little gem from Lord Deben?

I hope floods will cause pause among dismissers. Can't forget "some woman Slingo" It revealed contempt they have for science.

If we recognise that the science is showing us that we cannot detect any influence of climate on flooding then I would posit that there is no justification at all. The contempt for science comes solely from the members of the committee and Professor Slingo who attempt to insinuate a link between what happened in Somerset and carbon dioxide, without any scientific evidence to support them,

The reality, as ever, is that there is only hypothesis and speculation.

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