Yesterday, the Daily Mail published an article stating that Oliver Dowden, the UK Deputy Prime Minister, was going to advise people to make contingency plans for dealing with potential emergencies to help build ‘national resilience’ and ease pressure on emergency services.

Dowden wants to encourage families to stock up with enough food and water to survive for three days in the event of an emergency like a flood.

Dowden’s initiative seems to be at odds with the advice given last week by government advisors who were urging the UK government to make smart water meters compulsory.  The National Infrastructure Commission report published last Thursday suggested that compulsory smart meters are crucial to fight the “real and growing risk” of drought.

Whether it is floods or droughts they want to raise awareness for, the objective is the same – focus our attention on water without suggesting any real solutions to either the lack or overabundance of water.  It has the hallmarks of a campaign of deception, cover-up or a PsyOp.

In March 2023, the first UN Water Conference was held in 46 years.  In the week leading up to the UN’s conference, the World Economic Forum published an article that stated the aim of the Conference was to raise awareness of the global water crisis and decide on action to achieve internationally agreed water-related goals while the UN stated that “water is a dealmaker for the Sustainable Development Goals.”  Spokesmen from the hoisting countries hoped that the conference would result in a “Paris moment” for water “with outcomes as critical for water as the Paris Agreement has been for climate action.”

One Whitehall source told the Daily Mail that Dowden’s new intervention was not meant to be “alarmist” and was simply “common sense” advice.  He has been inspired by similar preparations in countries such as Finland. Finns are encouraged to stockpile food and water and be prepared to “shelter indoors” by taping up gaps in windows and ‘waiting calmly for instructions’ on the radio, the Daily Mail added.

Dowden has previously introduced an “emergency alert” system, which allows authorities to trigger an alarm on millions of mobile phones to inform people of a potential crisis.  The system, which Fujitsu (of the Post Office Horizon scandal fame) helped to develop, was tested in April 2023.  It proved to be disastrous.

The failed attempt didn’t stop Roger Hargreaves, director of the UK government’s emergencies committee Cobra, from telling Members of Parliament a couple of months later that now the system has been built and tested he believed it should be tested every couple of years to keep the technology operating smoothly.

Anyhow back to the topic of water and flooding or droughts. Predictably, the Imperial College London pseudoscientific outfit, World Weather Attribution (WWA), has rushed out an analysis of extreme weather regarding very wet weather in the UK and Ireland which “caused exacerbated flood risks.”  Jamie Jessop has more on the story.

British Weather: More Lies And Misdirection From The Paid Propagandists At The BBC And Guardian

By Jamie Jessop

Predictably, the Imperial College London pseudoscientific outfit World Weather Attribution (“WWA”) has rushed out an extreme weather attribution re. the very wet weather which affected Great Britain between October 2023 and March 2024.

Predictably, the BBC and The Guardian immediately report on it as being further damning evidence of the impact of the imaginary climate crisis on the British Isles, which can only be avoided if we give up our cars and gas boilers and go 100% renewable energy.

They are paid to propagate this false narrative and it is false, as revealed even by reading the actual WWA study which says:

The storminess of the 2023-24 season has been primarily dictated by the position and strength of the jet stream, a band of strong westerly winds high up in the atmosphere driven by temperature differences between the equator and the poles, and tends to be strongest in winter. The position and strength of the jet stream influences how many low-pressure systems are directed towards Ireland and the UK. The strength of the jet stream, and how each individual low-pressure system interacts with it, determines whether these low-pressure systems intensify enough to become Atlantic storms. During the 2023-24 season, the jet stream was stronger than normal, which likely contributed to how strong the storms became. Impacts of individual storms can be worsened when the soils are already very wet due to preceding sustained rainfall or a succession of storms over a similar area, leading to saturation, increased run-off and risk of flooding.

The storm severity index (SSI) was used to define stormy days to study. The SSI considers both the strength of the wind and the area affected. In this analysis we looked at rainfall and wind speed on stormy days identified by the SSI.

Looking at average SSI on storm days, while some studies using other methods suggest an increase in storminess in a future climate, our analysis has shown a decreasing trend. Our results show that average SSI indices as observed this year became about a factor of 2 less likely. The synthesis of the models also shows a negative trend and, when combined with observations, the results indicate that a stormy season as observed this year is nowadays a factor of about 1.4 less likely due to human induced climate change. [Emphasis added]

Autumn and winter storm rainfall in the UK and Ireland was made about 20% heavier by human-caused climate change, World Weather Attribution, 22 May 2024

Even if the models suggested that the storms which did arrive were overall wetter on average than storms which supposedly affected these shores 170 years ago, before the climate crisis (“BCC”), the models suggest that the storm severity index (“SSI”) should be decreasing with climate change, not increasing!

Also, even more importantly, the authors admit that the reason we were impacted by so many low-pressure cyclonic systems is because of the position of the jet stream, which, despite the efforts of climate alarmists to claim otherwise, cannot be linked to global warming.

The paid propagandists at the BBC and The Guardian give the reader the entirely false impression that it was climate change which was largely responsible for our wet weather and they both completely ignore the finding that SSI should be decreasing. In fact, The Guardian quotes two climate “scientists,” one of them from the Met Office, claiming the exact opposite of what WWA’s analysis predicts:

“The seemingly never-ending rainfall this autumn and winter across the UK and Ireland had notable impacts,” said Dr Mark McCarthy, a climate scientist at the UK Met Office and part of the WWA team. “In the future we can expect further increases – that’s why it is so important for us to adapt to our changing climate and become more resilient.”

Dr Sarah Kew, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and also part of the WWA team, said: “The UK and Ireland face a wetter, damper and mouldier future due to climate change. Until the world reduces emissions to net zero, the climate will continue to warm, and rainfall in the UK and Ireland will continue to get heavier.” [Emphasis added]

‘Never-ending’ UK rain made 10 times more likely by climate crisis, study says, The Guardian, 22 May 2024

Compare and contrast with what the actual attribution study says. WWA:

Looking at average SSI on storm days, while some studies using other methods suggest an increase in storminess in a future climate, our analysis has shown a decreasing trend. Our results show that average SSI indices as observed this year became about a factor of 2 less likely. The synthesis of the models also shows a negative trend and, when combined with observations, the results indicate that  a stormy season as observed this year is nowadays a factor of about 1.4 less likely due to human induced climate change. [Emphasis added]

We are dealing with blatant lies, deception and misdirection, from both the media and from climate “scientists” to promote a political agenda which is not supported by science and observations.

I’ll leave you with the words of yet another author of the WWA analysis, who also grossly misrepresents the results of her own study to spread fear and alarm:

Dr Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London and co-founder of WWA, said: “To put it bluntly, climate change is already making life shittier. Wetter winters are flooding farms, cancelling football matches, overflowing sewage systems and [making] groceries more expensive.

‘Never-ending’ UK rain made 10 times more likely by climate crisis, study says, The Guardian, 22 May 2024

Utter disgrace. Net Zero is making life shittier and shittier – and it’s going to get much worse.

Featured image: Map reveals areas in UK most at risk of flooding, Metro, 22 May 2024