There was an interesting letter from veteran marine engineer Tim Burd in the Southern Daily Echo on 19th March this year. It was about his memories of flooding in Southampton when the tide was high on the Solent. In the days of his youth. Tim Burd saw Priory Road in St. Denys flooded at high tide by the River Itchen, so that the dip in the road under the railway bridge became a pond. Back then the Echo published photos of people rowing around in boats on William Street at Millbank, and Mount Pleasant Road by Bevois Valley was flooded as well. And a Mr Ted Dyer told Tim Burd that every spring tide flooded his workshop at Cobden bridge next to the Itchen river. All that was more than fifty years ago, it hasn’t happened since. Which questions the truth of the deafening Green propaganda that sea level rise now is greater than we have ever seen before. Although Tim Burd did not say that in his letter.
Sea level acts like a global thermometer. Global warming melts more ice on land, so that more water flows down into the sea and sea level rises. Global cooling freezes more water into ice on land, so that less water flows to the sea and sea level falls. The lower the sea level, the colder is our global climate, and the higher the sea level, the warmer our climate. Sea level is our global thermometer.
At the height of the last Ice Age, twenty thousand years ago, sea level was one hundred and thirty yards lower than it is now. That is nearly four hundred feet lower, and the English Channel did not exist then. Ten thousand years ago the Channel appeared, much shallower than now. By the time of the Medieval Warm Period, between the 10th & 14th centuries AD, the Wash from the North Sea penetrated more deeply into Cambridgeshire than it does now. The climate was four degrees Centigrade warmer on average than now, and the Doomsday Book recorded vineyards in Yorkshire. That massive rise in sea level & global temperature occurred long before the Carbon Footprint of the Industrial Revolution, that is trumpeted by Green activists in their mythology as our Doom.
Getting back to Tim Burd, he also wrote in his letter that the highest tide recorded at Southampton was 5.9 metres in 1928, but that recently that record had disappeared from the tide tables issued by Associated British Ports, and ABP have refused to say why. But we all know why that record high tide back in 1928 is missing.
It is because the powers that be now suppress any evidence contrary to the propaganda from the BBC & Extinction Rebellion and other Green doomsday cults – any evidence against their story that industrial capitalism is heating the global climate and that we will all fry & die, unless supposedly anti-Green Capitalism is replaced by Green Socialism.
And it will not be Socialism in one country, like Joseph Stalin’s in Russia. Instead it will be Socialism on a global scale, in a new Green “sustainable” World Economic Order, directed by the United Nations organisation. The UN aspires to become a world government through the replacement of today’s “unplanned” market economy of capitalism, by the “planned” command economy of Socialism. And the UN has already issued its commands for our future world economic order in its UN Agenda 2030, part of UN Agenda 21/30/50.
The UN has been open and public about using the Climate Change scare story to become a world government. “Earth Summit ll” (the UN Conference on Environment & Development – UNCED) was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. There the conference chairman Maurice Strong said that “the objective is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government, with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises, whether real or not, is expected to lead to compliance”. That is why the powers that be are trying their utmost today to frighten schoolchildren into global warming hysteria with scare stories from Green doomsday cults like Extinction Rebellion & the BBC.
But memory is always the great critic of totalitarian propaganda, because in totalitarian environments (like climate science today) although the future is always certain (global warming), the past is always being changed. As Tim Burd found out when the highest ever Solent tide mysteriously disappeared from ABP’s tide tables, because it happened as long ago as 1928. Perhaps the Echo photos of people in rowing boats on William Street in the 1950s, after flooding at high tide on the Itchen, will disappear as well.
There are vineyards in Scotland now,
http://www.winetravelstories.com/2016/09/wineries-in-scotland-yes-there-are-five.html
Coastal flooding events are driven by weather and tides coinciding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_flooding#Causes
From the first link
“Chateau Largo is the brainchild of Christopher Trotter, a local chef and food writer who had a dream to bring wine back to Scotland, given that it was made here in the past by the Romans”.
The writer of the article seems to think Whiskey is a type of wine. It is of course not and neither is it produced in Scotland, but Ireland. Other wineries referred to are not grape based, but other fruits and one merely bottles Chilean wine.
As evidence of AGW it is very tenuous.
Aye Jim R, I`m glad you drew attention to Chateau Largo, I too looked at the blurb and found the reference of Selkirk wine to Andrew Selkirk (The real Robinson Crusoe) of Lower Largo
In fact the gift shop in Lower Largo used to be a customer of ours run if I remember correctly by 2 ladies, but that is 20/30 years ago. Also as a bit of local colour my wifes`s Grandmother stayed for a number of years in Largo Ward.
I stayed near Dundee for 20 years and have not been long back in Lincolnshire after spending 14 weeks in lock up in that area.
Perhaps you can help me, I think I was taught at school that a branch of the Gulf Stream went all the way round the North of Scotland and made its way down the East Coast to somewhere near the mouth of the Tay, which might have been responsible for the mild climate in that area, also I believe they used to grow giant cabbages at the Findhorn Community (another customer)
Finally perhaps I should mention when I stayed in Newport on Tay, we had a Brown Turkey type fig tree growing in our rear garden against a wall it was very vigorous and fruited annually – I always put that down to special climate in the area
Ralph Prothero is absolutely correct to draw our and I hope many other eyes outside our little community to the “fiddle” that is going on of facts made to appear to support the whole bogus Climate Change swindle.
There probably is no real need to question whether the removal of evidence ia deliberate or not as someone observedf “if you think you are being followed – you are”.
Why can I be so certain? I keep newspaper cuttings, well some and often they get shoved away and never see the light of day, but glory be i have unearthed a couple of beauties! Game, set and match to Mr.Prothero
Late January 2015 the late Christopher Booker wrote (I believe in th Sunday Telegraph) the following headline
“How we are being tricked with flawed data on global warming.
I will not comment on that now, as he wrote again two weeks later and summarised and added to that evidence contained in the above.
Two weeks later the Late Christopher Booker again wrote this headline (unfortunately I must have cut off half the headline, but I am sure you will get the message and perhaps some avid researcher into Telegraph records may also re-discover them – Oh forgive the thought such damning records may already have been removed)
Anyway the headlines:-
“Adjusting Climate Data……………
biggest science scandal……………”
Oh I will add there is a lovely picture of 3 polar bears with the legend printed below the picture
“Still here: real evidence shows Arctic isn`t getting warmer 9and Polar Bears are fine” (aah!)
Unfortunately I cannot quote all he wrote but I believe the following might help you.
“When future generations look back on the global – warming scare of the pasr 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.
two weeks ago under the headline `how we have been tricked by flawed data on global warming`
I`m going to finish this here and go on to Part 2
Part 2 Re Christopher Booker flawed data GW
“I wrote about Paul Homewood who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat Blogcked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.
this was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world….. one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface temperature record.
……………Homewood checked a swathe of other South American weather stations around the original 3. In each case he found the same suspicious one-way “adjustments”.
First these were made by the US government`s Global Historic Climate Network (GHCN), they were then amplified by two of the main official surface records. The Goddard Insitute for Space Studies (GISS) and th National Climate Data Centre (NCDC) which use the warming trends to estimate temperature across vast regions of the earth, where no measurements are taken – yet these are the very records scientists and politicians rely for their belief in “Global Warming”
Homewood has now turned his attention to the weather stations across much of the arctic, between Canada (51 degrees W) and the heart of Siberia (87 degrees E) Again in nearly every case the same one way adjustments have been made to show warming up to 1 degree C or more higher than was indicated by the data thas was actually recorded.
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This has more than surprised Traust Jonsson who was long in charge of Climate research for the Iceland Met Office…………he was amazed to see how the new version completely “disappears” Iceland`s “sea ice years” around 1970 when a period of extreme cooling almost devasted the country`s economy
……………….there is more, much more about the arctic ice temperatures currents and polay bears but Booker ends with the following warning
“Of much more serious significance however, is the way this wholesale manipulation of the official temperature record – for reasons GHCN nd GISS have never plausibly explained – has become the real elephant in the room of the greatest and most costly scare the world has known. This really does begin to look like one of the greatest scientific scandals of all time”
Here endeth a long lesson, but it was written in 2015 Has anybody taken any action of exposure of this grand worldwide fraud since then????
Naaaaaah
Go for it Ralph Prothero
I hope the above helps you in your quest!
So I wasted my time., Christopher Booker was talking rubbish, pity nobody told me.
Sorry to have wasted y our time Ralph!
Well Done Ralph Prothero!
You have unearthed many VERY interesting FACTS for your post. For instance, I did not know we had a medieval warming period and it is surprising to me that just 4 degrees centrigrade would enable us to grow grapes in Yorkshire! There was, I think, a sort of ‘mini ice age’ much later when the (tidal) Thames froze and people were cooking and selling hot potatoes etc. on it.
Whatever, while I am generally against imposition of dictatorial laws and controls I do think perhaps XReb (and BLM) should be declared illegal in some way. Terrorist Organisations? What do you think? How DO we avoid George Orwell’s prophesies in 1984 for instance.
The current CEO of ABP needs constant pressure placeing on him/her to restore/replace the ‘missing data’. Letters to the press, local councillors, local radio, national press, writing to MPs etc, to the point where they personally fear their career/status/ is more at threat from witholding the data than releasing it. It is likely there will have been nothing in writing ordering the CEO to remove the data it will all be done voluntarily through advice from non elected bodies. There will be no audit trail back to a government minister for example.
Enjoyable read.
I’m with you Jake. Only one thing. This sort of thing is in the socialist rule book. Change inconvenient facts. Change inconvenient definitions.
It all makes a mockery of everything. Unfortunately the punishment rarely fits the crime. But lives depend on facts Changing facts is the most foully corrupt that can be done. Popular in committees and law. What seems like a small peccadillo can become enshrined. And huge groundless edifices grow. (Insolvency law, Retail Price Maintenance , VAT )
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