David Mitchell wrote:

£636m???? I'll happily save then some cash and send in my rainfall figures,
for a small reward. A few thousand will do.

They could use such records for comparative analysis.

What wilth 2/3rd of the planet under water to start with and 1/3rd of
the rest being desert -at the moment. There is only the bits that the
US and the UK are still fighting insurgents over that are left. (And
the coke crops of course.)