Flood Warning From Local Environmentalist

A LOCAL Environmentalist, and member of Thame and Chinnor Friends of the Earth, has submitted the following letter to Thamenews.net, entitled ‘Flooding gets nearer’.
“We all feel great sympathy with all those affected by the recent floods, in Yorkshire, the Midlands, Worcester and now Oxfordshire, and maybe we are wondering how we would have coped, (if we have not already been flooded).
The Met Office call it ?A notable weather event?, and there are already theories being put forward.
Yet scientists have been warning us for years that Climate Change is expected to make extreme weather more common in Britain. The science is simple. As the oceans become warmer, more water evaporates to be carried and dropped by clouds as rain, in greater quantities.
There are going to be many who will deny it ? that’s human nature when faced with something that we find too hard to deal with.
But even if you say it was simply the British weather, almost daily we read or hear that Climate Change is implicated in yet another broken weather statistic; Polar ice caps are melting at a rapid rate; typhoons are are more frequent and powerful; habitats are changing.
And so must we, the Government too. We should be hearing a clear and simple message from politicians, that ?This notable weather event? is just an example of what lies ahead for us all, if we and others all around the world do not change our ways and reduce our impact on this unwanted Climate Change.
How many of us are prepared to give up some car journeys, walk the children to school instead of driving, reconsider that cheap flight holiday, turn down our thermostats in winter and try to cool our houses naturally in the summer, for example by keeping doors closed and curtains drawn instead of turning on another fan to cool down.
We can all support Green Energy by switching to a Green Energy company such as GOOD ENERGY, or invest in Solar Panels if you can afford to do so.
But are we prepared to make changes, and some sacrifices too?
It could be our turn next time. How would you cope if the floods reached you?”
Maureen Dyroff.

Photo: Local boys enjoy the flooding by the bridge at Shabbington, whilst a car struggles to get through. Could this become a more common sight as global warming continues?