Wednesday 1 August 2018

‘Britain hotter and wetter than any time over past 100 years’


With Aggregate Industries’ hydrological model for Straitgate Farm – the one that relies on groundwater levels falling during summer months to allow it to quarry down to the maximum winter water table in some flimsy effort to maintain a buffer between extraction and water – already in tatters, consider this report: State of the UK Climate 2017, released yesterday:
UK summers have been notably wetter over the most recent decade, with a 20% increase in rainfall compared to 1961-1990.