2012-03-09
Reality vs Science Fiction
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The Guardian, 29 Febrary 2012:
Soak the English: Welsh want paying for any water piped across the border
Politicians say rain-rich country must be compensated if ‘increasingly valuable resource’ is sent to drought-hit England
Frederik Pohl, The Cool War, 1981:
During the London water shortage just before the completion of the Rape of Scotland waterworks, Irish nationalists went around turning on hydrants and covert sympathizers left their taps running. It worked so well that Palestinian refugees, circumcised and trained for the occasion, repeated the process in Haifa to such an extent that two hundred thousand acres of orange groves died for lack of irrigation.
2012-02-28
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photo 02:56:43
Is California headed into a drought? … When it comes to weather, past performance is often indicative of future results, so I charted the last fifty years of rainfall in downtown San Francisco.
2009-09-15
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“ Parts of southeast England, especially parts of Essex, Kent and Sussex, look set to see some very welcome rainfall today after a prolonged dry spell. Whilst many northern and western areas have seen a wet summer, much of the southeast have been mostly dry since late July. ”
Metcheck.com, making themselves unpopular with people in London.
