For more than a month the public have been left baffled after being told that swathes of Britain are in drought despite record levels of rain and flash floods.
But on Monday the Environment Agency disclosed that it has come up with an unusual solution – replacing drought declarations with different types of water shortage.
The agency is now considering using terminology more meaningful for people who can’t understand why droughts are not always a case of baking heat, cracked soil and dry river beds.
Officials are planning to inform the public whether the country faces insufficient rainfall to grow crops, a prolonged dry spell, low levels of groundwater, or a general public water shortage, for example.
Trevor Bishop, head of water resources at the Environment Agency, said: “Drought is a really blunt word, and they have had exactly the same problem in the US and in Australia where they have used that single term to represent a real plethora of situations.
Anthropogenic climate change is when humans change climate definitions. A flood isn’t a flood unless it occurs when there is no public water shortage. If reservoirs are insufficient, then it is impossible for the tenth flood this season to be a flood. England is therfore in drought with repeated ankle deep water on level ground or if there is any one place that has a shortage (as defined by the government). Orwell goes green.
Government deceit is nothing new. They are taking their lessons from communist propaganda, and they probably have plenty of sheeple who will follow them the the slaughter house.
Global warming causes global cooling. Therefore, drought causes rain. Admitting they were wrong is unacceptable as it does not promote the ‘Agenda’ (21)
“Officials are planning to inform the public whether the country faces insufficient rainfall to grow crops, a prolonged dry spell, low levels of groundwater, or a general public water shortage, for example.”
Nothing new under the sun. The Egyption priests were reading their Nilometers thousands of years ago and making such pronouncements.
BTW . . . I look around to see what the weather is, how it’s been and what the forecast is for the next 10 days. I don’t need a priest . . . uh . . . Environmental Agency to tell me what the weather is. I’m sure farmers pay even more attention than me. Anyone whose activities are weather related is already paying attention to the weather, so who are there Environmental Agency pronouncements supposed to help?
Sucking zillions of cubic meters of water out of the ground for farming seems to me a more reasonable cause for the ‘drought’. Watertable is to low. As such it is indeed anthropogenic, but has nothing to with climate.
Ah, but will they tell us that the water shortages are ALL down to the fact that the Water companies have not, as they were contracted to do on privatisation, upgraded the network. The amount short which caused the “drought” declaration in South East England was almost exactly that lost in the year to leaks. That’s not drought, that’s an abuse of public funds.