Drought Part 2
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Spin between the raindrops
The preceding winter had been, we were told, “the fourth driest since records began”.
Now the warnings are here again, alongside the hosepipe bans, and threats of even more drastic drought measures to come.
And the country’s first drought order - for Sutton and East Surrey Water - starts on Saturday.
Yet to find a year drier than 2005 for most of the UK, there is no need to delve back into prehistory; 2003 fits the bill, as do 1997, 1996, 1991 and 1990.
A brilliant analysis of the gulf between the spin and the fact. Oddly reminicent of the Global Warming problem, where there is a danger, but over-hyping in the media leads to a gap between the fact and the risk. The problem then results from poor practice on both side, the Anti group attack the (easily disproven) media statistics and the Pro group is a little stuck because the view that ‘global warming is quite bad’ can be benifital for the public to have, while ‘The truth is just a liitttle bit better’ makes poor headlines.
