As Britain reels from rainfall of unprecedented intensity, a new scientific study concludes that heavier rainfall is caused by global warming. The study concluded that “more intense rainstorms across parts of the northern hemisphere are being generated by man-made global warming”. Meteorologists agree that the miserably wet British summer of 2007 has generally been caused by a southward shift towards Britain of the jetstream. The new study does not purport to blame any given rain event on climate change, but it supports the general finding that global warming caused by human emissions is causing increased rainfall [search] — by showing that in recent decades rainfall has increased over several areas of the world, including the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere. This sort of extreme weather response to global heating has long been predicted, but this the first time this link has been made directly. Given an unprecedented string of weather related catastrophes, anyone that does not acknowlege climate change must be a dullard or have investments in fossil fuels.