Here we are! The climatologists (invited or interviewed) are categorical: human activity has something to do with it !!! There is just Cabrol who put a damper on it ... but we all know his book of "Allègrian disinformation" ... those who do not understand ask
The drought sets in France in this exceptionally hot spring 2011. Water restrictions are in effect in nearly one in two departments. A "crisis" situation which is already compromising crops and threatening livestock.
Record temperatures, much lower precipitation than seasonal norms, and dry land. Since the beginning of April, drought has been raging in France as in other European countries. A situation, unusual at this time of the year, which agitates the specter of the year 1976, among the driest of the twentieth century, and which is not without consequences.
Thus forty-seven French departments are now placed under water restriction orders. These limit the uses considered non-priority for individuals (watering, car wash, pool filling) and can also control agricultural irrigation. A very large part of the northern half of France is concerned, with the exception of Brittany and the Northeast. In the south, measures are mainly taken in the Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées and Rhône-Alpes regions.
"We are in a crisis and crisis management situation", underlined last week the Minister of Ecology, after having assembled, one month in advance, the hydrological monitoring commission known as "Drought committee". Bringing together representatives of the Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM), elected officials and experts, she took stock with Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet on a situation deemed "worrying".
Connections:
http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2 ... id=1518484
http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2011 ... ssurer.php
http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2011 ... ctions.php
http://www.liberation.fr/economie/01012 ... -calamites
Make a supply of flour, the bread will feel the 3 € this summer (while the flour does not represent more than 5% of the cost ... CQFPD !!)
In stream: http://www.france5.fr/c-dans-l-air/inde ... 2011-05-26