Warmist Will Hutton suggests that CO2 caused too little rain, then too much rain in parts of Britain. He also suggests that all farmers believe in the global warming hoax

Climate change: A catastrophe if global warming falls off the international agenda | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

A month's rain fell in a day last week in parts of Britain. There were 140 flood warnings in the north of England, rain forcing the evacuation of Croston and Darwen in Lancashire; elsewhere, it washed out the Isle of Wight festival. Indeed, rainfall over the last three months has broken new records – following two years in which less rain had fallen than at any time since the 1920s.

This is part of a wider pattern....one of the dramatic changes since 1992 is the worldwide growth of climate change scepticism....If we forgo just a little welfare today through burning less fossil fuel, even applying a modest discount rate, we can guarantee that there will be no catastrophic loss of welfare in 2050.

...Now it is the right's turn. There is climate change. No gardener, farmer, sailor, festival-goer or refugee from floods doubts it – let alone the scientific community.

Flashback: Survey of more than 1000 Iowa farmers: 90% don't believe that climate change is caused mostly by human activities

Will Hutton | guardian.co.uk

He began his career as a stockbroker and investment analyst, before working in BBC TV and radio as a producer and reporter.