Deputy prime minister John Prescott had warned that the 'water floods' should be 'a wake-up call for everyone on global warming', and was subsequently 'gutted' at the failure of his attempts to broker a deal between the USA and Europe in The Hague. I met him in his UCL office. But we need them.
Journalists say one thing, scientists want funding and politicians want bandwagons.
It is not quite as the ministers have said', says Lord Hunt, before conceding that 'there is an element of correctness in what they say. It is quite a complicated pattern'. What we can say is that we will have rising sea temperatures. Rising sea temperatures mean more water in the atmosphere. More water in the atmosphere means increased precipitation.