Are We To Blame?

There have been multiple reactions to the recent storms that have devastated parts of the UK. This has triggered politicians and civilians point fingers at the anthropogenic climate change. For example, on Wednesday 8th of February Prime Minister David Cameron said he "very much" suspected that an increase in abnormal weather events was linked to climate change.

Below I have included some of the most interesting commentary on the links between climate change and the recent UK storm, taken from the BBC News article titled 'Storms' link to climate change uncertain - Met Office'.

"No attribution study has been done, so you can't make a definitive statement about how more or less likely the recent flooding has become because of climate change." 

''There has been some observed increase in some types of extreme weather and there is some evidence, depending on which types of extreme weather you are talking about, of a link between man-made climate change and some types of extreme weather"

 "You can't say definitively that an event is caused by climate change and climate change only because we have always had extreme weather.''

"But the chances of extreme weather occurring may have altered because of climate change. So it would be consistent with the picture we have seen of increasing rainfall in the UK over the past few decades."