In Southern Russia terrible floods caused by unprecedented
rainfall have killed three hundred souls mostly as they slept.
In England where there have been bad floods caused by
unprecedented July rainfall followed by unprecedented June
rainfall no one has yet died. Despite what may appear ro be the
case, many flood defence works planed and executed several years
ago have ket many rivers from flooding leaving just surface
water flooding to wreck homes and property, rather than take
lives. It is time to tackle the cause of these floods rather
than the consequences of them. In England our climate future may
well be Spring droughts and Summer floods; hose pipe bans in
February and water everywhere in July. The point about global
warming is that it changes the climate we know not how.
Generally most of those who have studied the likely changes of
this most complex of subjects think more intense, more extreme
weather will happen over the times when the climate slowly
changes. The changes may be subtle when taken ove