[Imc-uk-features] feature proposal: A Taste Of Things To Come

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You see even on this we have to see New Orleans advisors come in to advise
This isn't just global warming, and it's certainly not carbon related, it's directed global warming, with the small-time back up to the New Orleans gw being backed up over here with persistant flooding which has never been seen before
It's a repeated event and you ought to be able to see it.
Natural trends are being repeated, and Menwith plays no small part
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From: Chris[mailto:chris at aktivix.org]
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2007 10:40 PM -07:00
To: Middle column features for Indymedia UK [imc-uk-features at lists.indymedia.org]
Subject: [Imc-uk-features] feature proposal: A Taste Of Things To Come

Hi

On Fri 06-Jul-2007 at 09:45:43PM +0100, WietsE wrote:
> 
> Nice one Maqui, this is however adding to text of which
> some has already been removed from the original article.
> The wiki shows the latest version, it would be great if
> you could change and add to that.

I've hacked Maqui's text into the feat:

https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/NottsFeaturePage2

It'll need a typo run I expect, the text is below, see the
wiki for a hyperlinked version.

A Taste Of Things To Come

Over three weeks ago, the government's chief scientist
warned that for the UK, flash floods were likely to be
the biggest immediate problem caused by global warming.
David King told a committee of MPs that the country
would have to prepare for extreme weather such as
heatwaves and "torrential downpours". Two weeks later,
large areas are counting the cost of the worst flooding
this country has seen for over 50 years. The floods have
left seven people dead and over 40,000 homes damaged.
The army was mobilised to help with emergency efforts as
two more rivers broke their banks and water continued to
rise. Experts agree that the severe storms and flooding
will become more frequent as temperatures rise.

Photos: Did Climate Change Cause Floods around
Nottinghamshire? Pictures 1 | Pictures 2 | 25th June
2007: Sheffield Floods

Other Articles: Wet and wild, a taste of things to come
| Floods hit York | Climate Chaos - read (and weep) all
about it | Sheffield: 'Cut the Carbon' Cyclecade

Links: Sheffield Indymedia | Notts Indymedia | Climate
Indymedia | UK Indymedia Climate Chaos page | June 2007
United Kingdom floods on Wikipedia | Notts Indymedia
Weather Page | Slideshow of Floods in Nottingham in 2000
| Climate change and flood (Environment Agency) | Cool
Kids For a Cool Climate 

Over the last few weeks the mainstream media as well as
those across the political spectrum have linked the
storms to climate change. Which is not only stating the
obvious, but moreover accepting many of the issues
climate change activists have been claiming for years:
climate change is a major issue facing humanity. It's
been reported that the rate of climate change is twice
the worst case scenario anticipated 3 years ago.

One of the effects of climate change that is currently
manifesting itself across the UK is an increase in
flooding. In Feburary 2004 temporary flood defences in
Worcester failed and it was observed that "this is no
doubt something we'll all have to get a lot more used to
with the kind of climate changes we are experiencing,
and which are predicted to continue over the coming
decades".

Development on land that is prone to flooding,
especially of housing, is very short-sighted; last year
activists in Swansea used graffiti to "highlight the
fact that part of Swansea's prestigious SA1 development
on Trawler Road is being built on land that will flood
unless Climate Change can be averted".

In 2005 James Howard pointed out that "Germany is now at
risk from more extreme weather, such as heavy rain -
which raises the risk of flooding, especially the
densely populated plains of central Europe" and that we
are not only facing the impact of climate change: "The
Climate Change movement has been saying for a long time
that we should change, Peak Oil means categorically we
have to change." In 2006 a report from Australia
predicted that "annual flood-related deaths and injuries
are expected, by 2020, to rise about two and half times
[current levels] in some regions [of the world], whereas
that impact on Pacific islands is predicted to be more
than 50-fold greater".

What no politician or the mainstream media seems to
acknowledge as yet is the fact that climate change has
been primarily provoked by the global north's senseless
drive for depleting the earth's natural resources, and
its unhindered need for a never ending consumerism. The
very same politicians now so concerned with climate
change still refuse to accpet that it is the people
living in the global south which will suffer climate
chaos first and more aggressively, causing uncountable
devastation, including death, mass migration, food and
energy shortages. Carbon trading, green taxes and
agrofuel offer no solitions to a crisis that is a social
issue: "Climate change is not an environmental issue,
even if NGOs and liberal greens have claimed it so thus
far. It is above all a social issue, and its impacts
will affect all our social movements."

In India islands are vanishing beneath rising sea levels
and thousands are being turned into refugees. The
"increased frequency and intensity of weather extremes
like floods, droughts, killer heatwaves, wildfires, and
hurricanes and cyclones" needs to be also considered in
context of the global resource wars that are threatening
the very survival of humanity.

Local Media Coverage of the floods:

Sheffield: Flood refugees' blitz spirit | Worst flood
Barnsley has ever seen | Sheffield Forum

Nottingham: Nottingham BBC flood pictures | Chaos As
Torrential Storms Batter Notts | Sinking Feeling As
Water Rises

Chris 

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