Dr Dan Selby, a socio-meteorologist working for Clifton university, suspects that the climate, peppered by ferocious storms, has flipped to a new phase of instability and extremes. Selby's phrase, 'the Credit Crunch of the eco-systems, ' links the collapsing economies of the western world and the worsening weather conditons, as we have been living beyond our means, environmentally, for decades. First the UK has suffered five years of relentless rain - the Deluge - while the US withers under a drought. Then the rain stops. Selby warns that the climate will heat up rapidly now that the Deluge...