The big Freeze - government dithering slammed

I wrote a few days ago that it will be necessary to review plans to deal with extreme weather. Whatever view you take about whether human activity has contributed to climate change - and most scientists think the balance of evidence is that it has - fluctuations in the weather seem to be getting more extreme.

The Sun Newspaper points out this morning that following last February's snow chaos, ministers asked for a report on how to be better prepared.

As they point out in today's leader called "Frost Report", the report urged improvements to road gritting.

"Every council should have stockpiled ample grit and salt. Plans should have been made for councils to share supplies.

"They
[ministers] got the report in the summer, but failed to act until December.

Too late."

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