Wednesday, August 20, 2008

UK National Risk Register

The UK Cabinet Office has now made public information from the previously classified UK National Risk Register. This is available at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/reports/national_risk_register.aspx.


This seems to backup what many scientists have been saying. The greatest risk to the UK is not terrorism, or even global warming. It's an Influenza Pandemic.

1 comment:

Iain said...

An interesting chart... and I wonder how they came up with the likelihoods in particular. (The impacts, on the whole, I think I can agree with.)

For example, it seems that severe weather events would be a more likely occurrence than an influenza pandemic, given that of late severe weather events have been occurring more-or-less on an annual basis, and there exists no reason to believe that this kind of pattern would not continue.

Still... I believe it'll be the large unexpected event or events which will stand to cause the biggest impacts - likelihood of H5N1 mutating into an easily transmissible form of influenza notwithstanding.