To Glasgow, today, for #COP26, with the floods in Cumbria bringing a distinct feeling of déjà vu... 
Six years ago, just after the last massively important UN climate summit (in Paris) got underway, Cumbria was at the centre of another big flood, caused by Storm Desmond and a couple of close relatives
Some of the imagery is very familiar - Carlisle 2015, Keswick 2021
Why does Storm Desmond stick in the memory? Because it happened during a summit trying to plot a way out of dangerous climate change - and while the summit was still in progress, scientists showed climate change had made it more likely to happen ft.com/content/e14669…
So far, this year's extreme weather has been less damaging than in 2015, which saw, jointly with 2009, the most damaging floods in Cumbria for centuries theguardian.com/environment/20…
And so far there's no scientific analysis linking this one specifically to climate change
Still; there is no dispute anymore that climate change is making many extreme weather events more common and more intense eciu.net/analysis/repor… - literally well into the hundreds now in terms of scientific analyses
...and in some cases, such as the North American wildfires, the scale of the weather extreme would have been virtually impossible without man-made climate change - that's not me saying it, it's science worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-…
It seems like the weather is calming down here, and affected Cumbria starting to dry. But seeing those pictures - or trying to travel through the region - I won't be the only #COP26 delegate making the link back to the last crucial UN climate summit and feeling the déjà vu
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