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III IN THE PADDOCK
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
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hey call it climate change.
It's caused, there seems
no doubt, by emissions.
Very much including those from
there being too many vehicles
on the road.
That was certainly the case
at Qatar, where, as always,
if nature doesn't oblige, then
spending a bunch of oil money
can make up the deficit. Usually,
anyway.
Too many vehicles in this case
comprised more than 60 tanker
trucks, containing that commod-
ity even more precious in the
bleak and cheerless desert than
petrol. Water. And they were
emitting it in great gushing gouts
onto the Losail circuit.
This was to investigate a
problem that was itself already
entirely man-made: to see if it
would be possible to race under
floodlights if it was raining. This
was previously ruled impossible.
Not because there was anything
intrinsically wrong with the sur-
face, but the dazzle in the spray
and the reflections off the wet
CLIMATE CHANGE –
WHY WAIT FOR NATURE?
