Etran brag is the economist's environment editor. The extraordinary weather that we're seeing in france at the minu is really part of a much bigger picture. This is exactly what we've been predicting for the last 20 or 30 years. Climate change has made it more severe. It's even y wot at ben. S i spoke to richard betts of the u.K. Met office earlier about this, and from climate scientists generally at the minute, is that really the linking factor here is climate changed.