One way of solving the drought crisis?

I must thank my  chums at the Environment Agency for alerting me to this corker of an example of daftness.


This clipping was shown to me by one of their press officers who thought it would give me a giggle, and it certainly did that.

It is  a  reader’s letter printed in an Australian newspaper offering a possible  solution to  recurring droughts they get  down under. 

Have a look and see if you can get to the end without cracking up.

The writer is clearly convinced his theory holds water, no pun intended.

And what is even funnier is the paper printed it, they must have had a laugh in the office that day.

If you have read to the end of the letter and cannot see the joke, it pains me to have to explain it – but here we go.

The writer complains putting the clocks forward during the summer has resulted in an extra hour of daylight.

This is sort of true in that the working day has been shunted forwards meaning it gets darker later – as it does here when we put the clocks forward in March.

But what he doesn’t get is that there are still only 24 hours in the day, and there are no more or fewer hours of sunlight as a result of the change.

He thinks human intervention has resulted in more sunlight and consequently a higher evaporation rate exasperating the drought.

It is actually quite endearing, he is totally convinced.

Anyway, that was my laugh for the day, thanks guys at the EA.