Wesley Stevenson
speaker
1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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Now one man who's
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had a go at what is a ballpark figure and this is a figure for those drought areas is john roddard he's a former director of hydrology and water resources with the world meteorological organization so he sent me his assessment he says in the 12 months to march we'd recorded about 40 percent less rainfall than average which means we're about 120 millimeters short
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Now usually, over the six months from April to September, we actually fall further behind.
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John Rodder expects us to be about 320mm shore by the end of September, so we need an extra 320mm of rain this summer, which is about a foot, and that's roughly double what we'd normally expect, so I think it's probably safe to say that we'd notice if we got it.
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But he does add a caveat, which is that the rate of evaporation varies with vegetation, soil type and other factors.
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And in dry conditions, this can have a big effect.
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So measuring how much is really lost this way is very difficult.
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So what ultimately he's saying is, you can't tell.
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Yes, let's kick things off with those Greeks.
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A number of stories that fit the narrative of Greece being a basket case have been circulating, including this one.
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Yeah, if true.
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The original claim was made by someone who you'd think would be a reliable source, an economic advisor to the former Prime Minister of Greece, a man called Professor Heracles Polymerkakis.
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But when I asked him, he said his remark was casual and he said it was based on what had been circulating in policy circles in Greece a few years back.
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And he didn't really have much to back it up.
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He told me the only hard fact he was aware of was that the per capita number of Porsches in the city of Larissa was one for every two and a half thousand, which was twice the amount of Porsche cans in the OECD countries worldwide.
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Armed with this fact, I rang a really nice man called Lucas Kunze at Porsche, and this was his reaction to our numbers.
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So I asked him exactly how many Porsche Cayennes had been sold in Greece.
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Which is not very much like 311,428.
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Not even 1%.
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