Leaving this out of the UK politics thread because I think it’s rather pertinent to focus on a bigger problem – I think the inadequacy of public warning systems stretches beyond the UK. I wonder how much of it can be attributed to out-of-date models, i.e. the impacts are now far heavier than would be forecasted based on previous history, and how much of it is because of the warnings themselves not being received seriously enough by the public.
In this case it seems to be largely the former, but yet there are still also cases where people will ignore travel warnings and travel anyway, or just be generally unaware.
Lack of sufficient funding for defences was something I remember being a frequent complaint under the conservative government over the last 5 years or so.
I don’t think that’s unique to the Conservative government, although that doesn’t make it any better.
I’ve been reading quite a lot of articles on flood management and land management in general, and the feeling I get is simply that if you’re thinking about flood defences, you’re already doing something wrong, much like that Maldini (?) quote about making a tackle.
Not closely. Bovaer has been in use for a while, but my understanding is that it is seeing unusual push-back in the UK because of one of the ingredients.
I suppose that it’s just human nature (i.e. laziness and stupidity) to think about the death toll of an event to be simply those killed immediately by it. But the real figure is almost always going to be far higher.
Lots of stuff was discussed in the episode, but the main point is that while there is a lot of talk about the rising cost of insurance, it is not rising remotely quickly enough to keep pace with the increased risk that is our new reality. The result is we are not just facing consumer shock from the changes in the insurance landscape, but without a managed retreat, almost certainly needing to be funded at big deficit by the federal government, we are running headlong into widescale municipal bankruptcies
The reinsurance companies have been watching this with profound concern for a long time. SwissRe was highlighting the the clear and escalating risk 20 years ago.
Ive noticed this decline on my mountain walks fishing trips. Here in May we would get a lsrge hatch of a delicate upwing fly on all our local lakes. Not a Mayfly but a more minature version and in different colours. It would last a week or two.
I haven’t seen a sizeable hatch in years. It just doesnt happen now.
From the paper
" The livestock sector requires a significant amount of natural resources and is responsible for about 14.5% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (7.1 Gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents for the year 2005; [Gerber et al., 2013](javascript:;))."
Sounds more like a grid issue? It’s such an absurd problem to have. The map they have says it all, really. Barely any connection between Scotland and England.
I didn’t even realise that the grids in Scotland are run by 3 different privatised companies. It’s absurd, it doesn’t strike me as there being any incentive for them to improve their network connections with each other either.
