'Britain doesn't have a climate,' say the textbooks, it has weather.'. And every so often the weather springs a s.urprise - a long, hot summer brings drought, an arctic winter leaves a devastation of frozen So should Britain be spending billions of pounds on reservoirs, sea defences, insulation against the sort of disaster that occurs once in a decade? The economists' view may be different to that of the family facing the ruins of their home. And can anybody guess at: what the weather is going to do? Are we having a heat wave or is a new ice age just around the corner?
Jeremy Bugler report* Producer KAY EVANS
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