The UK’s weather is getting wilder. This year we’ve been soaked with record-breaking rainfall and have sweltered in soaring temperatures. We’ve endured the pandemic but we’ve also seen some of our most extraordinary destructive weather yet. We’ll take you to the eye of the storm, and into the heat of this year’s exceptional weather. We’ll be asking what today’s wild weather tells us about the UK’s future climate. Because climate change is going to affect all our lives. Panorama: Britain’s Wild Weather, Justin Rowlatt reporting, BBC 2020
Our winters have got 12% wetter on average over the last 60 years. ibid.
Across the UK there are 1.8 million people whose homes are at risk of sea or river flooding. Many are in areas of low-lying ground. But despite the risks, we are still building homes in flood-hit areas. ibid.
Vulnerable places along the east Anglian coast have seen the same: sea-level rises and storms eating away at land and homes. ibid.
These are some of the floods of 2021. The extreme weather across the globe this summer is unprecedented. Increasing air temperatures means more volatility in global weather patterns. The UK is particularly vulnerable to climate change. One in six homes in the UK are now at risk from flooding. What was once an exceptional event will now be a regular feature in our lives. It Takes a Flood, captions, ITV 2021
It’s the last night of 1953; Britain is under attack. From the Shetlands to the Thames Estuary few are spared the impact of an enormous storm bearing down on Britain. This vast storm is the engine behind a national disaster. The Great Flood of ’53, Channel 5 2023
Off the north coast of Scotland a powerful storm pushes south. ibid.
Princess Victoria ferry: Lifeboats and survivors float in the sea for hours … The greatest loss of life in British waters since World War II. ibid.
A new and dangerous phenomenon develops: tidal surge … The surge arrives in Norfolk … A national disaster. ibid.
In May to July 2007 Great Britain was pounded by more rain that any other summer on record. Entire counties were deluged with a month’s rainfall in just a few hours creating catastrophic floods. Rising floodwaters saw 20,000 families forced to flee their homes. The Great Flood of ’07, Channel 5 2023
Your barrier should have been built 50 years ago after the floods of ’28. Play for Today: London is Drowning, flood prevention planning meeting, BBC 1981
The subject that I’m investigating is human pre-history. Ancient Apocalypse s1e1: Once There Was a Flood, Graham Hancock reporting, Netflix 2022
My suspicion is humans are a species with amnesia. We have forgotten something incredibly important in our own past. And I think that that incredibly important forgotten thing is a lost, advanced civilisation of the Ice Age. ibid.
I’ve spent decades searching for proof of this lost civilisation at site around the globe. ibid.
An advanced human civilisation much older than our own, lost to history … New discoveries keep on pushing that horizon back. One such discovery has been made here in Indonesia. On the most populated island, Java, about four hours south of Jakarta, near the village of Karyamukti. ibid.
What if an advanced civilisation flourished here in Indonesia during the Ice Age? ibid.
Because Gunung Padang is like no place on Earth … You see these blocks scattered across the mountain. Oddly hexagonal stone slabs strewn about everywhere. Thousands of them. It’s quite a spectacle. ibid.
These rocks have been cut, repurposed as building materials and placed by human hands. ibid.
Traces of structures show up all over the hill … on carefully laid out terraces. ibid.
‘This site consists of two cultural layers.’ ibid. archaeologist
The entire hill is ringed by retaining walls of columnar basalt. ibid.
At least three large rectangular chambers. One around 10 metres down, perhaps an entrance hall of some kind … A third chamber between 20 and 30 metres deep. ibid.
Core drilling: Those sections had been laid out 11,500 years ago. ibid.
Around 100 feet or so he [Dr Hillman] hit the earliest layer of construction … as far back as 24,000 years ago. ibid.
What happened was a literal great flood. ibid.
Turkey’s Cappadocia region. There’s an ancient survival bunker deep underground. Built not just to shelter a few people but to shelter thousands … This is the story of Derinkuyu. Ancient Apocalypse s1e7: A Fatal Winter
One of the most remarkable large-scale projects humanity has ever embarked upon deep beneath this soft rock. ibid.
It’s an ant farm built human-size, with subterranean caves and tunnels extending over an area of four square kilometres. To keep it well ventilated, Derinkuyu has upwards of 15,000 air ducts connecting the upper levels to the surface. And more than 50 vertical shafts. ibid.
Which people? When? And why? ibid.
There are many cultures who used these tunnels over the centuries. ibid.
Here in Cappadocia, archaeologists have identified 36 such underground cities. And if we count the ones with just 2 levels, that number balloons to 200. ibid.
There was a period of great floods during the Younger Dryas, much resembling those described in myths. They’ve also noted that afterward, temperatures around the planet plummeted. A fatal winter indeed. And then there’s that detail linking the onset of the fatal winter to the arrival of a Great Snake out of the sky. ibid.
Serpent [comet] symbolism: A warning left behind by survivors … that one day a similar catastrophe would return. ibid.
At sites all around the globe we’ve seen what I believe after the fingerprints of a lost civilisation dating back to the last Ice Age. Ancient Apocalypse s1e8: Cataclysm & Rebirth
Many of them tell the same basic story. ibid.
The wonders of the Channeled Scablands … it’s so enormous … The Falls are just one section of a monstrous ravine ... What really happened here? ibid.
An apocalypse on a scale that’s almost impossible to imagine today … The violence arrived. ibid.
The biggest flash flood in human history … much like the ones destribed in myths around the world. ibid.
‘There was a peak of platinum and iridium.’ ibid. scientist
A brief intense storm of debris that the Earth ran into … the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. ibid.
An immense global cataclysm around 12,800 years ago. And apocalypse big enough to have obliterated almost all traces of an advanced civilisation of the Ice Age. ibid.
Does this mean that Noah was the product of artificial insemination, a genetic experiment performed by extraterrestrials? If so, what was the reason for the Great Flood? Ancient Aliens s1e4: Close Encounters, History 2010
Based on Sumerian legends the epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest written stories in history. And tells of a man’s journey to the heavens to meet the god Anu. Ancient Aliens s2e6: Alien Tech
Is it really possible that the Great Flood and other cataclysmic extinction events were caused by extraterrestrials? Ancient Aliens s2e9: Alien Devastations
The Epic of Gilgamesh. The ancient Sumerian tale was discovered on a series of clay tablets dating back thousands of years. Ancient Alien s2e10: Alien Contacts
Evidence of a cataclysmic event. Written accounts describing lost cities. And mythic tales of gods punishing humanity. In ancient cultures throughout the world there are stories of humankind nearly being destroyed by a great flood. Imagine if such an event had actually taken place. And what if it had been caused by an other-worldly force? Ancient Aliens s9e8: The Great Flood, History 2014
Variations of this ancient tale can be found in cultures all over the world. ibid.
Could it be that the Great Flood described in so many ancient texts really did occur at the end of the last Ice Age? ibid.
What if ruins found across the world were evidence of an advanced civilisation that existed before a global deluge? ibid.