EA Can’t Even Get Simple Facts Right
January 31, 2024
By Paul Homewood
Every year the Environment Agency fill their flood reports with climate change hype, like this one:
Obviously we never used to have weather warnings, gales, rain and snow!
And we know that the “record winds” claim is utterly fraudulent, based as it is on a weather station on The Needles which only opened in 1996. The whole idea that Storm Eunice was more powerful than a number of other storms in the 1980s and 90s; yet that is what the EA wish people to believe.
But in their desperate attempt to blame everything on climate change, they cannot even get their facts right:
In fact February was only the 15th wettest calendar month in England.
But what have facts got to do with it?
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The only conceivable consequence of an increase in “Red Warnings” is an increase in blood pressure amongst anyone older than 13 who has an IQ score greater than their hat-size.
With the Post Office / Horizon / Subpostmaster scam, we have lately heard a lot about “Forensic Accountants.”
I think that we need a large team of “Forensic Accountants” to go through the income / taxation / savings / wealth accounts of all those disgusting bottom feeders who promote the Net Zero scam. Start with MPs, Lords, Senior Civil “Servants”, Quango Chiefs and “Climate” (and “Covid”) Academics. I would be amazed if very many haven’t received lovely “Christmas Cards” from BigWind, Big Solar, Big Pharma, Bill Gates, Soros, Grantham, Hohn, Drax, Schwab and the rest.
And then can we string them up???
The highest wind gust recorded was in the Orkney, 196MPH. Unfortunately the station blew away before readings could be confirmed. The Cairngorms forecast recently was -20 and 20 feet of snow in some paces. Avalanche warnings are in force at present.
Lincolnshire likely to be hit especially hard with both avalanches and glaciers.
The Environment Agency is diverse. Not narrowly oriented on truth.
I donât believe in man-made global warming. The climate changes naturally as itâs always done. CO2 is essential for plant growth.
However, from what I read the reason that flooding is so much worse recently is that the environment agency is obsessed with ârewildingâ and other woke ideas, so they donât believe, amongst other things, in dredging rivers and this lack of action is mainly responsible for the flooding. If the water canât get away, it will flood.
The dumbos in the environment agency wring their hands, but the problem is their failure to carry on doing what has been done or many years in the past.
Cordially
Ian Harris
PO21 1HW
When are they going to campaign to turn off the pumps in Norfolk to “rewild” some of our best farm land?
Or at least turn off the diesels and restore the wind mills?
It is only a matter of time – I hope I haven’t given them any ideas.
“In fact February was only the 15th wettest calendar month in England.”
Well, examining the most recent Met Office data for England and Wales (the HadEWP series up to the end of 2023) does show February 2020 as the wettest February in England & Wales since 1766. England & Wales received 169.5mm of rainfall in Feb 2020, above the 160.4mm in Feb 1833.
The England data from the HadUK-Grid, which only covers back as far as 1836, also shows February 2020 as the wettest for England, at 160.9mm.
So they do seem to have some data to back up that claim, at least.
That there have been other even wetter months in other years is quietly ignored. October 1903 at 191.8mm in England is pretty spectacular – it was a total of 218.1mm for England and Wales in the same month. Winter 2014 turns out to be the soggiest in England at 401.3mm – a year I remember very well, due to persistent ground water flooding in our part of southern England. The next wettest winter was in 1915.
On England & Wales, it was the 17th wettest month
“In fact February was only the 15th wettest calendar month in England.”
Well, examining the most recent Met Office data for England and Wales (the HadEWP series up to the end of 2023) does show February 2020 as the wettest February in England & Wales since 1766. England & Wales received 169.5mm of rainfall in Feb 2020, above the 160.4mm in Feb 1833.
The England data from the HadUK-Grid, which only covers back as far as 1836, also shows February 2020 as the wettest for England, at 160.9mm.
So they do seem to have some data to back up that claim, at least.
That there have been other even wetter months in other years is quietly ignored. October 1903 at 191.8mm in England is pretty spectacular – it was a total of 218.1mm for England and Wales in the same month. Winter 2014 turns out to be the soggiest in England at 401.3mm – a year I remember very well, due to persistent ground water flooding in our part of southern England. The next wettest winter was in 1915.
Anybody who’s suffered a flood risk assessment from the EA or it’s zoo of obliging corporate consultancies (the amount of in-house expertise is pitiful) is familiar with absurd (and wholly unexplained) claims about climate change’s effect on watercourses and drainage.
Try finding the EA’s Technical Document on <a href=”https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/thames-estuary-2100-te2100“>TE2100 Thames Flooding plan </a>(hint: they cited it for 10 years but never published it)
The Environment Agency are an utter shower and I have shoeboxes brimming with receipts to evidence that.
The current fashion is for Sustainable Drainage Systems and Natural Flood Management.
Both transfer water from the surface to the ground.
At the catchment scale this causes a rise in groundwater levels.
The next bit of the story is obvious, now areas that never flooded are becoming more prone to groundwater flooding.
The EA’s take on occasional town flooding in Wiltshire consequent from silted up watercourses (zero maintenance for 50 years) through urban areas is to propose builing gert walls without doing *any* validated/ground-truthed engineering modelling…
Locally, it’s claimed that over-abstraction has reduced the River Kennet to a miserable dribble. One might think there’s a case for transferring water between catchments an refilling aquifers when it’s tipping down?
Natural flood management guarantees regularly upgraded Herman Miller office furniture in the WFH conservatory and a really neat lease car.
cynical, moi?
The Fens prove that if enough effort is exerted not only can you tame inundation you can recover land. I would love to know the balance between land lost to coastal erosion and land recovered by instituting drainage projects.
So they lie … what’s new?
And of course the Norfolk Broads are merely the flooded remains of peat workings, put to recreational use.
Much of the British Landscape simply reflects the “gardening” instincts of our careful ancestors.