The Climate Change Committee have warned the Government that the country
is heading for disaster unless it quickly ramps up efforts to tackle
what it calls ‘climate risks’.
In their latest Progress Report on Adaptation,
they claim: ‘The increasing impacts of climate change are clear, both
globally and in the UK. Adaptation is needed now to ensure that the UK
is prepared for today’s extreme weather as well as the rapidly
increasing severity of future risks.
The costs of these impacts are
already being felt, and the risks will continue to grow even if
international targets to limit global warming are met. Action is needed
now whilst we still have the opportunity to address these risks in a way
that is both cost-effective and timely.’
They say that by 2050:
• Over half of England’s prime farmland, one in four homes and half of roads and rail lines will be at risk of flooding;
• Heat-related deaths could pass 10,000 in an average year;
• Unchecked climate change could cost 7 per cent of GDP.
Absurd
claims such as these, which have no basis in reality, show that the CCC
are a body that we should not take seriously. Their statement about
floods ignores the reality that only a few thousand properties a year
are affected by flooding, and there has been no upward trend in the
numbers, according to official data from the Environment Agency:
And
far from thousands dying from the heat, summer is still the season when
death rates are at their lowest. As for 7 per cent of GDP, that equates
to about £140billion a year, which is clearly ludicrous.
In
reality, the UK climate has not changed a jot in the last 25 years, so
is hardly likely to do so in the next 25 years. We have had a few hot
summers in recent years, but none as hot as 1976 or 1995. And the
wettest years were 1872, 1903 and 2000.
We are accustomed to
silly scare stories like this, promises of Mediterranean summers, an end
of snow and so on. In February 2012 the then Environment Secretary
Caroline Spelman told us that drought may now be the new norm – just
before the wettest summer on record. Four months later, ‘scientists’ said that the dull, damp weather that summer was, you guessed it, all the result of climate change!
This
latest CCC report is just another attempt to bulldoze through their
climate agenda, one that is already doing great harm to the country, a
fact which the British public are beginning to wake up to....<<<Read More>>>...
