No, BBC, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Water Shortages in Scotland
By Admin
September 5, 2025
1:57 pm
By Anthony Watts
The BBC published a story by Scotland editor, James Cook, blaming climate change for low catchment, river, and reservoir levels across the country. A detailed look at actual data shows this is false. Scotland, though generally rainy and wet, has experienced droughts and low water levels before, during periods when global average temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations were lower.
“Scotland is known for its rainfall, famed as a lush, green, soggy nation. Not this year,” opens the BBC’s story, titled “Rivers at critical level as Scotland’s water supplies feel the strain.” Cook then leads readers to believe that climate change has put the country’s water supply at risk, writing, “[c]limate scientists call the swings between these extremes weather whiplash and they affect us all.” As proof, Cook then cites Dr. Rebecca Wade, a senior lecturer in environmental science at Abertay University in Dundee, who says:
“Our climate is changing which means that sometimes we have a lot less water than we’re used to having,” she explains.
“Also, when we do get rainfall, it comes in a different pattern.”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/09/05/no-bbc-climate-change-isnt-causing-water-shortages-in-scotland/
