People's Climate March 2014/South Bend Voice, CC2.0
The deluge in Cumbria follows the inundation of Chennai, as negotiators in Paris find themselves drowning in text, brackets and footnotes. We are the first generation to feel the effects of climate change and may be the last to be able to significantly mitigate them.
It takes courage to say that violent weather is connected to climate change, but we have no real choice now. The British floods of 2013/2014 are the most salient comparison and a recent Met Office study suggests they were seven times more probable because of existing global warming. In our unfolding human drama, climate change has stopped being a peripheral part of the plot, and is now a primary part of the setting.
