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Half-million homes at risk are not covered by flood scheme
2013-12-07 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Almost half the homes deemed at serious risk from flooding will not be covered under the government's new flood insurance scheme because officials have decided to omit the future impact of climate change. As the cleanup continues on coastlines inundated by the worst tidal surge for 60 years, it has emerged that the government's flood insurance deal, Flood Re, is likely to cover just 500,000 homes. Yet the government's owncomprehensive Climate Change Impact Assessment reveals that, when factoring...
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