Vapourface (@Vapourface)

For a bit of perspective on droughts and hot weather, and to shut-the-fuck-up climatards it is worth memorising 1540 AD This was a drought so severe that the Danube (Europe’s largest river if you discount the Russian Volga, which was too far east to be affected) DRIED UP to almost zero. This is a river that typically flows with 5000 cubic meters of water per second in places. It's like 50 double decker busses filled with water passing you every second. That dried up. Or to put it another way, a football pitch flooded up to your bollocks passing by every second. This was 500 years ago, when the population of the area concerned was about the same as the UK population now, and nobody had an SUV or an airconditioner. So climatards can please, shut up with your nonsense about extreme weather being caused by a lack of taxes. This was all when Henry the 8th was on the throne, his taxes were about 3% Shut up climatards.