Flood defences simply aren’t good enough – here’s what needs to be done

'When even Boris Johnson, the UK’s Conservative prime minister, interprets severe flooding as a probable consequence of climate change, it’s a sign that everyone is recognising that the weather is becoming weird. It’s hard not to – the recent UK floods were prompted when the average rainfall for the entire month of November fell in South Yorkshire and north Derbyshire in 24 hours' - Read TWENTY65's Liz Sharp's article on the recent floods in The Conversation.