UPDATE: I was extremely naive to wonder how long it would take socialists to blame a natural disaster on themselves. It was instantaneous. I wonder if Jesse Jackson will declare that the UK looks like the hull of a slave ship, like he did with hurricane Katrina?Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister: "Like every advanced industrial country we are coming to terms with some of the issues surrounding climate change."
This guy proved he was an idiot when he said the UK gov was not to use the term "Muslim" when describing the Muslims who tried to commit terror across the country last month. Now he's at it again. I used to look up to the British. What happened to them?
Michael McCarthy, Belfast Telegraph: But the catastrophic "extreme rainfall events" of the summer of 2007, on 24 June and 20 July, are entirely consistent with repeated predictions of what climate change will bring.
"Entirely consistent," he says. It must have been hard resisting the temptation to scream, "So we need to demolish our economies and live in tipis."
Mark Henderson, Times of London: Global warming is generating heavier rainfall over Britain of the sort that has triggered this week’s floods, scientists have confirmed for the first time. [...] While it has long been suspected that climate change is contributing to increased precipitation over midlatitude countries such as Britain, research has now conclusively linked greenhouse gases to heavier downpours.
The sky is not only falling, it has fallen.
The BBC dares the impossible dream. I'm sure somebody will be fired for presenting a non-socialist view: But Jim Dale, a risk meteorologist at British Weather Services, says it's down to bad luck, not global warming. [...] "It's a sexy subject and people like to stick labels on things. Global warming is the latest bandwagon going past so whenever we get a heatwave or floods they blame it on that." [...] And while people have recalled the severe floods of yesteryear, such as 1912, 1947 and 1953, the 2007 events of June and July are just as bad, he says.
Precisely.
Here's more of what we expect from al-BBC: Human-induced climate change has affected global rainfall patterns over the 20th Century, a study suggests. [...] Researchers said changes to the climate had led to an increase in annual average rainfall in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
Capitalists have killed us all. Put the gun to your head now.
David Leask, The Herald: They are the kind of floods that hit twice a century - but they have come twice this summer already. Some of England's biggest rivers were still rising last night, swollen by record rainfall. [...] Scientists used to expect such events once every 50 years. Now they are thinking again, thanks to global warming.
Mr. Leask didn't get the memo that clearly states the socialist slogan "global warming" has been changed to "climate change" because every catastrophe is related to industrialization, not just the warm ones.
Britain's Channel4 asks, "What caused the flooding?" It's a good sign when a media outlet dares to ask, rather than simply ram home the socialist line. Here's their analysis: The rains that are flooding the Severn and the Avon, and that threaten the Thames valley, are rare. But are they unprecedented? [...] History suggests otherwise. The Severn flooded severely in 1258 and 1483 and 1770. [...] But recent history may be best reflected in Tewkesbury, hit hard because it is where the Severn and Avon rivers meet. In February 1990 its two rivers overflowed.
I spent some time on the web looking for Medieval tapestries depicting human-induced "climate change" as the cause for the 1258 flood, but couldn't find anything. Oh, that's right! Karl Marx hadn't riled up the lemmings at that early date in history.
I look forward to the day when we can have a good, old fashioned flood without lunatics calling for a return to hunting and gathering.
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