Unthreaded
Anyone looking at the "Horizon: what's wrong with our weather?" tosh on the BBC at the moment?
Utter crap, with extra added Slingo. I am sure that Dr Richard Betts and sidekick Edwards will be all over this blog to refute......
jolly farmer
MH: do not worry – I am aware that there will be some in “public service” who genuinely are of service to the public; what gets my goat is that there are so many on the public purse whose principle desire is their own enrichment, the public be hanged. Sadly, many of that mentality seem able to work so much to their personal advantage; perhaps they make themselves aware of the skeletons in the cupboards of those in even higher authority – and make it known that they know about them.
Radical Rodent
RR, GC, for the record I'll also add that I know a good college friend who, the last time we communicated, was working for the Environment Agency in the Somerset Levels area, and had land-drainage experience in more Northerly climes. He would be properly identified as an Engineer who regarded his job priority as keeping the land drained, and peoples' homes dry.
There is probably no shortage of sensible people in the lower ranks of the Environment Agency. I wouldn't want them to give up in despair.
michael hart
Michael Hart: what grates the most with me is that this waste of space has two homes, one in Barbados, and a very well remunerated future, irrespective of whatever happens to his part-time jobs, all on the tax-payers’ shilling. Like so many in the halls of bureaucracy, he is more of a wealth-sponge than a wealth-creator, sucking money out of the tax-payers’ purse. I have no sympathy at all for him or his any of his kind; the sooner we get a “leader” who rids us of more of these leeches, the better.
Radical Rodent
michael hart, it is terrible news that he has resigned for living the other side of the Atlantic.
He should have been fired for incompetence, and overseeing an Institutionally Incompetent bunch of idiots. Let us all hope that someone with practical abilities is brought in from outside the Env Agency, to replace him, and hopefully the Green Blob infiltrators destroying the lives and environments of taxpayers.
golf charlie
And RenewableUK names DECC director as new CEO
UK: Trade body RenewableUK has appointed the director of change at the UK government's energy department as its new chief executive.
Hugh McNeal will take up his new position in April, taking over from Maria McCaffer
a civil servant in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) since April 2010 & before that green stuff in Dbis
McNeal led the tense negotiations between Decc and Siemens over the Green Port Hull
Oh How the doors revolve !.
Not-me
The head of the monster raving no-dredging company has fallen on his sword/drowned in his own culvert:
Environment Agency boss resigns
michael hart
@SandyS Wonder why Dutch flood prevention is managed by practical engineers and ours by dreamers ?
stewgreen
@Pharos mentioned it's incredible what they DON'T report The Dutch April EU vote
- It's incredible what they DO report
8:45 BBC Red-io 4 (All Labour, All the time)
Cumbria Prof Philip Haygarth *
"If you look back to the 1960's we have witnesseed about a 30% increase in winter rain in my life time ..looking ahead using the climate MODELS .. by 2050's I can expect another 15% .. if we add that together we can expect a 45% maybe 50% increase within my lifetime" (is that as reliable as Flannery drought trend ?)
* Lancaster Environment Centre, check his Twitter for the most ridiculous flood warning map ever
They cut quick to the insurance problems
stewgreen
JF: yep. Watching it now, and it is, on the whole, utter tripe, as well as being extraordinarily patronising. One thing they seem to avoid looking at is the simple fact that “extreme” weather in this country is not really all that unusual. Can you give an example of any decade when there hasn’t been “extreme” weather?
Oh, and now they’re onto the Arctic warming and its “loss of sea ice” mantra, over the last 30 years, the period of major ice loss in the Arctic (ignoring that 30 years ago was the fear of an oncoming ice age)… d’oh.