From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Paul Kolk

More hysteria from the BBC:

China’s summer this year has seen both extreme heat and devastating floods.

And the flooding this time around has struck areas where such weather has been unheard of, with scientists – blaming climate change – warning that the worst is yet to come.

“I’ve never seen a flood here in my whole life,” says 38-year-old Zhang Junhua, standing next to a vast patch of rice, now completely useless. “We just didn’t expect it.”

His family and friends are safe, he says, because they were given plenty of warning to get to higher ground, but everyone in his village now has some tough months ahead.

What’s more, the devastation in north-east China’s Heilongjiang Province has had a major impact on food supplies for the whole country.

This month, 40% of the area’s famous Wuchang rice crop has been wiped out, visibly flattened by the volume and speed of the water. Places which should appear lush and green are today brown and dead.

“The fields where we planted our crops were all submerged. We can’t plant again this year,” says another farmer, Zhao Lijuan, as she smiles and tries to be philosophical about the impact on her community.

“The losses are incalculable. We have tens of thousands of acres of rice fields here,” the 56-year-old says, adding: “When I saw the water come here, I cried. It laid waste to everything and I am scared the typhoons will be back.”

At least 81 people have been killed in the recent floods, including some trying to rescue others.

But the economic pain has been much wider, in a country already struggling to recover following three years of strict coronavirus control measures.

And, if the government wants to measure the immediate cost of not addressing climate change urgently, it need look no further than its own statistics.

In a little over a decade, the number of floods being recorded in the country has increased tenfold.

In the summer of 2011, there were six to eight monthly floods listed in China. Last year, more than 130 were recorded in July and 82 in August.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66616699

If you think this all sounds like a load of nonsense, you are probably right.

As the BBC themselves go on to admit:

According to Dr Zhao Li from Greenpeace East Asia, the increase in flood numbers can be partially explained by China developing better systems to monitor and record flood data.

Forget about the protestations about how climate change might still be a factor, the BBC is acting fraudulently by quoting those flood statistics, which they know to be false.

And the claim that flooding this time around has struck areas where such weather has been unheard?

Well, the BBC also go on to note at the end of the article (which most people won’t bother to read):

Officials in China tried to ease the impact of recent floods by using a system of dams of waterways to change their direction. The problem is that the water has to go somewhere, and it was Zhuozhou in Hebei Province which took the hit.

These are tough choices but, in the end, it becomes a government decision over who must suffer for the greater good.

In other those “unprecedented floods” were not caused by climate change, but by a deliberate decision to divert the flood waters from elsewhere.

You would of course be entitled to think all of these floods and other extreme weather has affected China’s agriculture in recent years.

The reality is quite the opposite: