1.   Climate has an important influence on these outcomes.

2.   From the Ice Age onwards climate has had a dramatic effect upon the landscape, the kinds of cultivation and the uses of land for industrial and domestic purposes.

3.   A milder climate has short-term and long-term consequences for everything from water supplies to beaches.

4.   But the climate has to be right for this sort of nonsense to work today.

5.   But the climate has to be right.

6.   Second, the financial and economic climate has to change.

7.   Year in and year out, the seasons ring in changes of attire, while climate has always had a great deal to say about sartorial style and invention.

8.   The official said a relatively cool climate this year has lead to an abundance of fresh produce.

9.   Deputy chief statistician Ian Ewing said climate had a big influence, with the drought affecting electricity production and a good spring influencing primary production and food processing.