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| Photo by Les Dunford |
Extreme weather increasingly prompts talk of climate change and the link between the two.
We saw that recently with Hurricane Sandy in the US, and before that with the spate of droughts and wildfires. Australians pondered whether the
record temperatures seen at the start of the year will become a more regular occurrence.
Now it is the turn of Britons. The British Isles, which are normally basking in spring sunshine at this time of year, are instead lying under several feet of snow. Thousands went without power, lambs are dying in the fields and there was the usual 'travel chaos'.
It was all timed nicely to coincide with the departure of the government's chief scientist, who
drew the link with climate change as his farewell message.
