And finally...
Assumptions. We are all guilty of them. After a summer that was reputedly the driest since 1976 you could be forgiven, if you take note of the daily news bulletins, for thinking that every year from now on will be hotter and drier than the last. It will not. The reason I am so confident? Weather.
Our worries about global warming and climate change are well founded, but there will still be variations year on year in what the sky throws at us and how the sun parches our land. The general trend may be for a rise in temperatures and sea levels, but within that rise there will be peaks and troughs – always have been, always will be. But this realistic approach seems to have been lost in the shrill and sensationalist tenor of the news today.