The floods we've seen this week in the UK are on nothing like the scale of disasters like Hurricane Katrina and other catastrophic weather events that are happening more often worldwide, but being used to a mild climate, it's shaken many people into asking some serious questions about climate change.
But the jury is still out on the cause of climate chaos, despite experts claiming that excessive wet weather is a direct consequence of global warming. What does the bizarre summer weather say to you about our treatment of the planet?
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