Re: But we were told it was going to get drier...
...The conventional message has been drier summers, wetter winters in southern Britain, and there has been an emphasis on predicting that extreme events are likely to get more extreme - e.g more droughts, more floods, more intense rainfall. ...
Er, no. That that's the RECENT message - the one that the Global Warming believers changed to after it became apparent that their predictions were failing to come true. You have it mixed up with the 'Extreme Weather' claim, which came after they junked 'Climate Change'.
We were originally told, quite clearly, that there would be much less precipitation, then none at all, and the last breeding pairs of humans would be found in the Arctic.
Then, when that was obviously not going to happen, we were told that the new climate would involve long and continuous droughts, so we had to save water, but we weren't allowed to build reservoirs for some reason. In winter, our children would; never know what snow was.
Now that's become a laughing stock, and the current excuse for high taxes and no proper infrastructure spending is that ANY news report of unseasonal weather is caused by human 'pollution', either CO2 if it's hot, or SO2 if it's cold. And if the weather ids normal, it's CO2 AND SO2 together.
I note that NASA have just reported the results of a study into average water vapour around the world. CO2 warming theory INSISTS that it has to go up - it is this increase which causes the extra heat.
It has gone down. In one blow, the whole underpinning of the AGW scam has been disproven. But, as far as I can tell, that isn't going to stop the activists ....