England, flooding and Conservatives

So, large parts of England are under water again.

Attributing any particular flood to climate change is a tricky thing, given the range of factors that help contribute to flooding generally.   (Look, even an opinion piece at The Guardian complains that a lot of current flooding is causing by poor infrastructure decisions.)   But the more floods that appear the more it's fair to assume that the attribution studies will confirm the connection with increased flooding generally.    

Fortunately, for England, their brand of conservatism is not tied to culture war denial of climate change:

The warnings came as George Eustice, the new environment secretary, admitted that the “nature of climate change” means the government cannot protect every household from extreme weather, such as recent storms which have brought flooding to parts of the UK.

“We’ll never be able to protect every single household just because of the nature of climate change and the fact that these weather events are becoming more extreme,” Mr Eustice told Sky News.

Why did Australian conservatism decide to follow the line of American conservative denialism, instead of the European path?   Probably the IPA I would say - and at heart, the American and Australian conservative path was likely formed by mining interest funding to "think tanks".  I would assume that limited mining (at least on land) in England means they have never been targeted in the same way.