The UK authorities issued warnings of a freak rise in water levels in the North Sea yesterday, caused by a combination of tidal/atmospheric forces. There was a fear that flooding along the east coast of the UK – in places like the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts that are familiar to me – could be as bad as in 1953. Fortunately, some of those fears have abated, but not disappeared. The Thames Barrier flood defence has been put up. The warning was made in good time, so hopefully no lives are at risk. The report linked to here makes little mention of what the situation is on the other side of the North Sea, such as in the Netherlands. Odd.
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Over here in the Netherlands they had the Dyke watch out, but there’s been essentially no damage.
Bet the Guardian and Independent will be full of idiotic stories trying to link this to gorebull warming tomorrow (or even today).
A talking head on Skynews has just claimed the storm was caused by global warming:0
Kit,
Get over it! You must’ve figured by now that everything from the unseasonably pleasant weather we’ve been having in Cheshire recently to the rehabilitation of Al Gore as a Great Man is due to global warming.
This morning’s “Today” programme on Radio 4 mentioned that Dutch dyke patrols have been doubled for the first time in 30-something years, and the surge barrier at Rotterdam has been raised for only the second time since its construction.
Just checked the Dutch Internet News, apparently there was some water flowing over into the streets next to the harbours in the Wadden Islands, there was some damage in Noord Brabant, and the Rotterdam harbour gates were shut for the FIRST time ever, purely as a precaution (not because they were needed). another flood barrier on the oosterschelde was shut also
I can find no reference to DOUBLING the Dyke watch.
High winds coming from the North West plus a spring tide caused this, but of course it is easier to flog a certain horse…
I don’t think that horse is dead, though, Stoats.
No, hence why I didn’t specify it as “dead” yet… but it will be. But, will we hear “we were wrong, sorry “, or “we knowingly pushed flawed models as if their outputs were real world data”? No, we won’t. It will just go away quietly like overpopulation, acid rain, anthropogenic ozone depletion and people will move onto the next scare that will require an upheaval of society as we know it.
Let us hope it dies a quick death to limit the damage it can do
Bananas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7085109.stm
Bananas in the Netherlands!!!! Must be Global Warming at work again.
The ski season in the Alps opened a month early this year (about which they have been extremely quiet in comparison to last years late ski season)… must be global warming
Record Antarctic sea ice extent this year… must be global warming too
Did I detect some abnormal curvative on those Dutch bananas, or are they just happy to finally see land?
Climate change was mentioned at approximately 08:03:12 at the end of the news story of the Norfolk surge on R$adio 4 8am news.
(I was waiting for it with a certain amount of inevitability).
“Over here in the Netherlands they had the Dyke watch out” –
The level of patriotism shown by your country’s lesbians brings a lump to my throat.
Well, I have never seen the Thames Barrier up before. I have a lovely view of it from the 36th floor at Canary Wharf, too.
Re. blaming all this on GW: Watch out for Thames Barrier statistical skullduggery. I’ve also read that the barrier is closed more frequently due to a “reinterpretatation in closure criteria“.
I take it from your concern that there are UK citizens potentially at risk in the Nederlands.
There were some disappointed surfers….
Interesting to see the coverage by Sky news all morning when the peak had been reached at about 7am…
I suppose the warmers are aware that since the retreat of the glaciers covering the northern half of the British Isles at the end of the last ice age, it has been rising out of the sea while the southern half has been sinking?
No, probably not.