whether people such as floods minister Rory Stewart,David Cameron and other politicians are to serve a useful function to the public on issues such as flooding we need them to finally learn and apply a new vocabulary. They must replace useless words like “unprecedented” and “extraordinary” with the words “predicted”, “adaptation”, and “mitigation”,and climate change”. They must replace platitudes such as “once-in-100-years event”, designed to give an excuse for doing nothing, and with a new vocabulary that accepts changed circumstances and responsibilities.
They must acknowledge the predicted changes in rainfall patterns that the Met Office and others occupy been warning about for well over a decade.
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Source: theguardian.com