Motive for Modifying Weather-Flood Experience Boosts Climate Change Acceptance

[KiwiClare]

Chemtrails are used with weather modification technology. This is why this article is posted here, in case anyone was wondering. 
Follow the money...as Jesse Ventura would say.

Flood Experience Boosts Climate Change Acceptance
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=flood-experience-boosts-climate-change-acceptance
People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change, according to a new study

By Lauren Morello and ClimateWire  | March 21, 2011 | 13
People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change and willing to adopt energy-saving behavior, according to a new study.

Researchers at two British universities based their findings on a 2010 survey of 1,822 individuals across the United Kingdom.

"We show that those who report experience of flooding express more concern over climate change, see it as less uncertain and feel more confident that their actions will have an effect on climate change," the authors write. "Importantly, these perceptual differences also translate into a greater willingness to save energy to mitigate climate change."

Previous psychological research suggests that many people are relatively unconcerned about climate change because they perceive it as a distant issue that will not directly affect them.

But the authors of the new study, researchers at the University of Nottingham and Cardiff University, say their results suggest that drawing links between local weather events and climate change is "likely to be a useful strategy for increasing concern and action."

Their analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The scientists said they chose to frame their study in terms of flooding because the United Kingdom has experienced a series of high-profile, often large-scale, flooding events in recent years.

For more go here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=flood-experience-boosts-climate-change-acceptance

[KiwiClare]

In the thoughts of the elite: I think therefore I scam

[Paranoid Puppet Master]

Christopher Booker wrote about this a couple months ago after the flooding in Brisbane:


What was the role of warmists in the Queensland flood disaster?
Australia was told to prepare for droughts as a result of climate change, and let down its guard against flooding, writes Christopher Booker


Industrial flotsam forms a deadly logjam in the Brisbane River Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

By Christopher Booker 7:29PM GMT 15 Jan 2011 901 Comments

Ever more alarming facts are emerging to show how Brisbane’s floods were made infinitely worse by cockeyed decisions inspired by the obsession of the Australian authorities with global warming. Inevitably, the country’s warmist lobby has been voluble in claiming that such a “freak weather event” (as the BBC called it) is a consequence of man-made climate change. But far from being an unprecedented “freak event”, the latest flood was nearly a foot below the level of one in 1974 and 10 feet below the record set in 1893.

For years, Australia’s warmists have been advising the authorities that the danger posed to the country by global warming is not floods but droughts: not too much rain but too little. One result, in Brisbane, was a relaxation of planning rules, to allow building on areas vulnerable to flooding in the past. As long ago as 1999, this was seen as potentially disastrous by an expert Brisbane River Flood Study (which was ignored and for years kept secret). Instead of investing in its flood defences, Australia spent $13 billion on desalination plants. (Queensland’s was recently mothballed because of the excess of rain.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8262064/What-was-the-role-of-warmists-in-the-Queensland-flood-disaster.html

[Paranoid Puppet Master]

I just realized, there was a more recent article on the same subject:

Unscientific hype about the flooding risks from climate change will cost us all dear
The warmists have sound financial grounds for hyping the dangers of flooding posed by climate change, writes Christopher Booker


After Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the price of insurance soared  

By Christopher Booker 7:15PM GMT 26 Feb 2011 1863 Comments

As the great global warming scare continues to crumble, attention focuses on all those groups that have a huge interest in keeping it alive. Governments look on it as an excuse to raise billions of pounds in taxes. Wind farm developers make fortunes from the hidden subsidies we pay through our electricity bills. A vast academic industry receives more billions for concocting the bogus science that underpins the scare. Carbon traders hope to make billions from corrupt schemes based on buying and selling the right to emit CO2. But no financial interest stands to make more from exaggerating the risks of climate change than the re-insurance industry, which charges retail insurers for “catastrophe cover”, paid for by all of us through our premiums.

An insight into this was given by a paper published by Nature on February 17, which claimed to show for the first time how man-made climate change greatly increases the risk of flood damage. Among the eight authors of the paper are two of the most influential scientists at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Prof Peter Stott of the UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre and Dr Myles Allen, head of Oxford’s Climate Dynamics Group. Two of their co-authors are from Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based firm which is the world leader in advising the insurance industry on climate change.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8349545/Unscientific-hype-about-the-flooding-risks-from-climate-change-will-cost-us-all-dear.html

[KiwiClare]

Thanks for the posts Paranoid Puppet Master.   The extremes being created wreak of "scam."

In Sydney, Australia there was more extreme weather creation recently:

TheAge

Sydney has switched from its driest start to the year since 1965 to one of its wettest weeks in March after up to 200 millimetres of rain fell in 24 hours this weekend – 1½ times the monthly average, a meteorologist says.

The rain is expected to continue until Wednesday morning before skies clear and temperatures rise again, Brett Dutschke at weatherzone.com.au said.

But the weakening of La Nina and the cooling of waters offshore also mean that the heavy rains are not expected to stretch into the rest of autumn and winter, Mr Dutschke said.

For more go here: http://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/sydneys-heavy-weather-six-weeks-rain-in-a-day-20110321-1c2t7.html