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I've noticed on the posts here that it is not Australia that is suffering a drought - the UK, parts of USA, Africa, India, and maybe other places, but the emphasis by scientists and governments is on "Global Warming" - and I think the average person doesn't understand ALL the ramefications of this phenomenon.

I wonder if we would get more action from our governments and the people if we called it Global Drought? Surely it would put greater emphasis on one of the major consequences of Global Warming, and I think it would put an element of fear into people that will "encourage" them to make a greater effort to make a difference.

Perhaps also using terminology like "Global Pollution" - it seems to say that the whole world has a problem with this - and that all the people of the world can do something to learn how to make changes to reduce the global pollution which just may reduce the problem with the ozone layer.

Different terminology might result in more people understanding what is going on.

We live to some extent with droughts here in Australia - they are a feature of our weather patterns over time, but the continual drought with no end in sight is of great concern. We are struggling to provide water for our daily needs right now, and with all the rhetoric from governments some folk might believe that that it is all under control.

We are all installing water tanks in our homes. But what if it doesn't rain? Our government is building more dams - but it doesn't rain to fill them.

I don't want to scare monger, but I think we have to be jolted into more action.

What do you think?

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