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