ACCORDING to the Environment Agency, England is running out of water. They have just announced that the country faces a shortfall of 6billion litres a day by 2055.
Although they accept that demand is rising with increasing population, one of the main reasons they give is, you guessed it, climate change!
Their report not only claims that summers will be drier, but that these impacts are already being felt. This claim is, however, bogus. Summers are no drier nowadays than they have been since 1840. Neither, for that matter, are they any wetter. We merely see the year-to-year variability we have always seen.
Moreover, across the year as a whole rainfall levels have been trending higher in the last 30 years. Water tables and reservoirs should, in theory, be fuller as a result, not lower.
How do they think they can get away with such bare-faced lies?
They are clearly desperate to deflect attention away from the role that mass immigration is playing in water shortages, even though they now assume population in England will rise by 8million in the next 30 years.
Lying about climate change is of course now a stock in trade for government. As if to emphasise how nonsensical their drought claims are, another Environment Agency report a day earlier warned that ‘our changing climate’ continues to bring more floods!
Don’t bother counting the bodies!
LAST week’s sunny spell had barely begun before the Guardian solemnly informed us that the heatwave would ‘kill almost 600 people in England and Wales’. The claim came from a manifestly fraudulent study by scientists at Imperial College London, who insisted without any evidence that these deaths would not be occurring ‘without human-caused global heating, with temperatures boosted by 2C-4C by the pollution from fossil fuels’.
The study was clearly designed to promote the Net Zero agenda by scaring the public with misinformation.
In reality, temperatures in Central England maxed out at 28.9C, a level we see most summers.
The claim about hundreds of people dying is also fake, even though it is one which is repeatedly given credence by government and media. The Guardian, for instance, repeated the lie that more than 10,000 died in summer heatwaves between 2020 and 2024.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) carried out a detailed analysis of the severe heatwaves in 2022. They were clear that, although deaths spiked on the hottest days, they quickly fell back below average in the days after. In short, people died a few days earlier than they would have otherwise – what the ONS call ‘short-term mortality displacement’. Over the period as a whole, the total number of deaths was normal.
People did not die of ‘heat’, they died because of underlying conditions, mainly dementia. The same thing happens on a cold or wet day in winter.
The ONS analysis included this chart (the study was based on data up to September 7, so allowance had to be made for the fact that a few deaths were registered later):
What is significant about this chart is that the number of deaths in 2018 was lower than most other years. You may recall that the summer of 2018 was exceptionally hot. In contrast, the summer of 2016 was much cooler, yet had one of the highest number of deaths.
The summer of 2022 certainly recorded more deaths than the others in the series, based on death registrations up to September 7. But the ONS added this warning:
TCW regularly reported on the high level of excess deaths that year, something which was never fully explained.
Finally we must not lose sight of the fact that every year it is summer which by far records the lowest death toll of any season. If people are dropping like flies when the sun comes out, what is killing them off in much greater numbers in spring? April showers?
