BBC: Moves to adapt our society for a changing climate may have focused rather too much on long-term scenarios and not enough on how to cope with weather and short-term variability, argues Mike Hulme. He says the past two British summers show the dangers of this overemphasis on laudable long-sightedness. Are we giving too much weight to the anthropogenic ‘signal’ of global warming whilst ignoring the natural ‘noise’ of climate? This year’s British summer has again failed to meet many of …