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Guardian: Global warming made the floods that devastated England and Wales in the autumn of 2000, costing £3.5bn, between two and three times more likely to happen, new research has found. This is the first time scientists have quantified the role of human-induced climate change in increasing the risk of a serious flood and represents a major development in climate science.
"It shows climate change is acting here and now to load the dice towards more extreme weather," said Myles Allen of Oxford University,......
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Climate change doubled likelihood of devastating UK floods of 2000
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 16th, 2011
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