Floods Cause Rise in Belief in Climate Change

The results of a new study show that the British public’s belief in climate change has risen over the past year to levels not seen since 2005. Researchers at the University of Nottingham and Cardiff University are attributing the rise, at least in part, to the flood of December 2013 and January 2014. Although is very difficult to attribute any single set of weather events to climate change, such extremes of weather are predicted to happen more frequently as the climate changes.