>>274558>>274564>implying that there is any reason to believe the UK's wet winter was a result of global warmingMan made climate change is a political and economic tool, it exists only to sell papers, carbon credits and drive up the price of oil and gas.
Climate change certainly exists but one extraordinarily wet winter is not an example of it. Here is a description of the worst hit areas from wikipedia;
>The Somerset Levels, or the Somerset Levels and Moors as they are less commonly but more correctly known, is a sparsely populated coastal plain and wetland area of central SomersetWetlands and coastal plain.
Here are some examples of flooding in the thames valley from long before the impacts of the industrial revolution on the environment could have been felt;
http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/floods1875.html