Climate change may be to blame for the flooding and severe storms seen across Britain in recent weeks, David Cameron said today.
The Prime Minister said that he “very much” suspects that the extreme weather seen over December and the new year could be attributed to rising global temperatures.
Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, he said that Britain was seeing “more abnormal weather events”.
He continued: “Now, colleagues across the House can argue about whether that is linked to climate change or not. I very much suspect that it is, but the point is that whatever one’s view it makes sense to invest in flood defences, it makes sense to invest in mitigation, it makes to sense get information out better and we should do