United Kingdom: Extreme droughts to be ‘more common’

Independent (UK): Britain is heading for water shortages and crop failures as extreme droughts like that of 1976 become more frequent, experts have warned. A Met Office study on how climate change could affect the frequency of extreme droughts in the UK has found they will become more common by 2100, and to put the droughts in context, conditions seen in 1976 were used as a benchmark -- one of the worst droughts on record. The Met Office climate model was used to run a number of simulations and ......

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