What we’ve got to do in Britain—a relatively small, but relatively prosperous country—is to make sure that we spend our money wisely and adapt to the conditions as they change limate is always changing, and we had extreme floods apparently along these lines over 100 years ago until 300 years ago. So these extreme events do occur from time to time. … The climate changes for all sorts of reasons, I mean volcanic activity, the jet stream, water vapour in the atmosphere, cloud formation and the sun’s cycles as well as man-made carbon dioxide, which some people seem to think is the only driver of it.