Thursday, 14 November 2024

The 2024 Spanish floods

 The media and politicians, as usual, jumped on the November 2024 floods in Southern Spain as some sort of freak events, while it took me a few minutes to find they were totally normal, proving both the media provably tell lies and the people blindly accept them. Firstly here are the historic figures for Spanish floods.


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And European floods.


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Tell me, how can anyone say with a straight face the current floods are special?

Meanwhile let's look at the general and specific reasons for these floods. The first is the most obvious, greedy human beings build on flood planes. Therefore they guarantee when the nearby river overflows, which they always will, they will be flooded. Just stop doing it. As for any changes, look at the land use. Flood prevention, such as dams and other protection methods, have been reduced by 'green' regulations. EU laws such as considering the environmental impacts of reducing flood damage before creating it. If you protect the fish and plants then the victims will be the people who are flooded by protecting the environment. There are no other places to protect flood planes (which should never have been built on in the first place) except between the sources of the water and the land. So ban one and the consequences will be guaranteed. These rules also deter dredging, meaning the flow of water is greatly speeded up as it has less space to flow more slowly. The EU Water Framework Directive makes these obvious safeguards very hard to carry out, meaning typical floods where such actions have not been carried out will be guaranteed to be worse than they would have done, yet all the authorities do is blame us every time it happens despite the frequency being no different to what it ever was. Also the funnel effect, where roads are built in a river valley, such as Lynmouth in the 1950s Source and Valencia in 2024, means the roads and surrounding buildings force the water along a narrow passage far higher than on an open area, causing water levels of many feet high purely due to creating a channel to direct a flooding river directly through the centre of a town. These consequences are clearly a product of human greed and stupidity rather than anything sinister happening in the climate. If it was illegal to build on flood plains, or impossible to insure houses on them things would soon improve.




It is also WEF policy to remove dams, the main reason the rainfall was not held back and caused so much damage. Dam removal