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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (7819)	10/25/2006 10:14:06 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Should we be concerned about this: the Department of Environment concluded that by the middle of the century, comparatively dry winters like last year's will be followed by even drier summers, creating a significant threat to water supplies or this the concern: The UK Government's Climate Impacts Programme says [2]: * winters throughout the UK have become much wetter relative to summers over the last 200 years; * more winter precipitation now falls on heavy rainfall days than was the case 50 years ago. Government forecasts suggest winter flooding will also become more common [2]: * Winters will become wetter throughout the UK and heavy winter precipitation will become more frequent; foe.co.uk