British prime minister David Cameron has sparked outrage by blaming Britain’s flood crisis on global warming while admitting defences are not fit for purpose. Cameron said more frequent ‘extreme weather events’ driven by climate change were the main driver behind the floods in Cumbria and the north of the country. Experts blame the massive cuts in flood defence budgets for the disaster and point to historic flooding which pre-dates ‘global warming’. Climatologists say although the floods are devastating, they have nothing to do with global warming but are in fact part of a natural weather cycle. They have branded Camerons comments as “ludicrous excuses”. The Express reports: They (Climatologists) say heavy and persistent rain not only in the UK but across the world has been bolstered by an especially strong El Nino this year. The phenomenon – on course to be the strongest on record – is triggered by wind changes in the Pacific Ocean leading to a build up of warm water around the coast of Peru. It has catastrophic impacts on the world’s weather including heavy rain and floods in America and South America and warmer than average temperature across Asia. Although its effects are still under discussion, [...]