By Paul Homewood

The latest misinformation from the BBC:

A tropical rainstorm has flooded parts of North Carolina near the coast, leaving homes and vehicles underwater.

Video shows one young man paddling through high waters.

The NOAA Atlas 14 shows that 12 inches of rain fell in 12 hours, which, on average, occurs every 200 years, according to the National Weather Service of Wilmington.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3e99g1d21xo

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NOAA most certainly have not said that this sort of rainfall only occurs every 200 years on average.

This is actually what NOAA said:

https://www.weather.gov/ilm/2024PTC8

And the NOAA Atlas 14 referred to is clear that the 200 year frequency is based on a single location on the coast, not the region as a whole.

NOAA also state that the high rainfall totals only affected a 25-mile strip of coast:

The coast line from North Carolina to Florida, where these sort of storms can happen at any time, is hundreds of miles long. So the odds of such a storm occurring somewhere on the coast is not 1-in-200 years, probably more like once a decade.

And, of course, rainfall of 12 to 20 inches is nothing unusual in North Carolina. For instance Hurricane Dennis dropped 19.9 inches on Ocracoke in early September 1999, and falls of 10 inches were widespread in the State.

Just two weeks later, Hurricane Floyd arrived, with rainfall totals as high as 15 and 20 inches in eastern parts of North Carolina. 19 inches fell on Wilmington.

Certainly the floods this month were minor in comparison with the devastation wrought by Dennis and Floyd.

But the BBC would like you to believe that events like this latest one never used to happen before global warming.

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They don’t want the useless things in Europe either!

Germany has suffered a “spectacular” drop in electric car sales as the European Union faces growing calls to delay its net zero vehicle targets.

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) said sales of new battery-powered electric vehicles (EV) in Germany plunged by nearly 70pc to 27,024 in August.

In France, the EU’s second largest market for battery electric vehicles behind Germany, deliveries fell by 33pc to 13,143.

ACEA said “the spectacular drop” in both countries meant that only 92,627 battery electric vehicles were registered across Europe last month, a fall of 43.9pc compared to a year earlier. This drove a wider 18pc drop in new car sales across the EU.

The collapse in EV sales comes amid concerns about their range, high prices and the lack of charging infrastructure across the EU.

Felipe Munoz, a global automotive analyst at JATO Dynamics, said: “The reality is that whether you look at business or private, electric vehicles do not convince yet.”

Earlier this month Volkswagen warned it may have to close a factory in its home market in the face of slumping sales. The car maker has also scrapped a decades-old promise to protect workers’ jobs, with fears as many as 15,000 roles could be at risk.

The EV sales crisis prompted the ACEA to call for “urgent action” to address new EU net zero car sales rules that will leave European electric car manufacturers at risk of hefty fines.

The European Commission, which creates and enforces EU law, is preparing to introduce new rules for car and van makers designed to slash carbon emissions and encourage the adoption of electric vehicles.

The new rules require all new European cars to produce no more than 93.6g of CO2 per kilometre. Brands will be fined €95 for each gram of CO2 per kilometre over the limit, multiplied by the number of cars sold.

The ACEA said the “continual downward trajectory” of EV sales in the bloc meant manufacturers would be at risk of multi-billion euro fines and said the new rules needed a rethink. It warned that demand for EVs was still well below the level needed for the EU’s new vehicle emissions rules to work effectively.

“We are missing crucial conditions to reach the necessary boost in production and adoption of zero-emission vehicles: charging and hydrogen refilling infrastructure, as well as a competitive manufacturing environment, affordable green energy, purchase and tax incentives, and a secure supply of raw materials, hydrogen and batteries,” the ACEA said.

The Brussels-based industry body said that 902,011 battery-electric cars were registered from January to August, representing just 12.6pc of the market.

The ACEA urged the European Union to delay new carbon emissions targets and instead take “urgent and meaningful action” to reverse the sales decline.

Top carmakers including Volkswagen, BMW and Renault have already suggested pushing back the targets, which would see companies fined for failing to comply.

Meanwhile, Italy urged the EU to pause its “absurd” plans to ban petrol cars by 2035 amid concerns the policy risks triggering the automotive industry’s collapse.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/19/germany-suffers-spectacular-70pc-drop-electric-car-sales/

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