David Lammy sounded the alarm over global warming “accelerating towards us” as thousands of people were told to flee to higher ground as devastating floods hit central Europe. The Foreign Secretary vowed to put the “climate and nature emergency at the centre of UK foreign policy”.

As Storm Boris brought devastating floods to central and eastern Europe, skeptics on social media dismissed the role of climate change in making the deadly rainfall more intense. But scientists have established ties between a warmer atmosphere and torrential rain,