Loading Up the Dice for Extreme Climate Events Steady inexorable floods affected the south of the British Isles earlier this year. Extraordinary amounts of rain fell over a couple of months. Unrelentingly... Elsewhere, take your pick from the effects on your environment of a "polar vortex", mudslides, droughts or heat waves. No single country causes climate change, and no one country can stop it. But we need to match the urgency of our response with the scale of the science.