LONDON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- It's time to move away from fossil fuels now that climatologists say extreme British weather may be tied to climate change, an environmental campaigner said.
Gary Shrubsole of Friends of Earth said a 29-page report from the Met Office, England's national weather service, that suggested recent weather events "may be how climate change may manifest itself" in the region is a warning sign that can't be ingored.
"It's clear that the best form of insurance we have against worse floods and other extreme weather threats in the future is to burn less gas, coal and oil," Shrubsole, of FOE's British office, said in a statement Sunday.
The Met Office report said more rain has fallen on the country this year than in the past 200 years.
It said some of the climate effects may be the result of human activity but noted that British weather is "notoriously volatile."
The report said: "The intensity of recent storms is unusual ... but not necessarily unprecedented.
