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The British are obsessed by rain. Now they have more of it than ever, and the familiar drizzle has been replaced by autumnal monsoons. In Rain, Brian Cathcart showers the reader with vital information, from actual rainfall facts and statistics to Samuel Johnson’s real opinion of weather–inspired small talk.
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Britain is a country devoted to the study of rain. No other nation in the world has kept such extensive accounts of its patterns for so long. Now Britain is getting used to a new kind of rain. And there’s more of it: the year 2000 was the wettest since accurate records began in the middle of the 18th century. But it is also fiercer: drizzle, the traditional form of British precipitation, has been replaced by the day–long deluge. Large parts of Britain are flooding, under threat from the weather as never before. Why is there suddenly so much more of it? What has it done for the British character? And how will it change them? In Rain, Brian Cathcart explores the extraordinary human consequences of the abstraction called “climate change.”
Rain,Brian Cathcart,Granta Books,1862075344,Climatic changes,Earth Sciences - General,Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology,Europe - Great Britain - General,Great Britain,History - General History,National characteristics, British,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Rain and rainfall,Social aspects,Weather,Science / Meteorology
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