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Somehow, the terrible floods in Britain have brought out the best in people
2014-02-16 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As a borderline hermit who lives on top of a hill, I've managed to avoid the worst of this spectacularly cack weather. I haven't been forced to travel to and from my home in council-assigned boats like the people of Somerset. I haven't watched in impotent horror as water has crept up through my floorboards like the people of the Thames Valley. I still have electricity, unlike much of Wales. The worst thing to have happened to me is that the shortcut I take to the supermarket has got a bit slippy,...
Britain needs to learn to live with water
2014-02-16 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Cornwall cut off; Chesil Beach remodelled; several thousand properties under water; tens of thousands of homes without power; and the number of deaths tragically rising. Fire and rescue services are caught up in the biggest mobilisation since the Second World War and still the wettest winter on record is not done. Currently, up to 3,000 homes could flood in the Thames Valley with 24 "danger to life" severe flood warnings in place and widespread disruption expected on road and rail as the half-term...
United Kingdom: Ed Miliband: 'Britain is sleepwalking to a climate crisis'
2014-02-15 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We are on the 3.30pm train from Birmingham to London and it feels like a race against time. Outside, the fields are flooded and the rain is lashing down. More bad weather is heading in fast from the west. Two days before, on Wednesday, Virgin Trains called a temporary, early-evening halt to services in and out of Euston and passengers are worried it may do so again. Aside from a nagging anxiety about getting home, Ed Miliband is having a decent day. Earlier, he dropped in on south Manchester,...
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Floods in Britain threaten farm output and investment
2014-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Floods in southwest England and elsewhere have submerged crops and destroyed cattle bedding and feed, with the consequences likely to be felt for months, or even years, in terms of lower production of both crops and meat. Britain's Environment Agency had issued 416 flood warnings and alerts, as of early Thursday, including 16 under its most serious category, indicating danger to life. Thousands of acres of farmland in Britain are under water, with some submerged for weeks, although agricultural...
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If there is global warming this is what it could look like in Britain
2014-02-14 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It is an all too familiar sight these days as Father Thames reclaims his ancient sovereignty over his flood plain. A street, in Oxford, has become a river, banked by sodden suburban homes. Its inhabitants have taken to canoes instead of cars. But this time there is something else: people are holding a banner: "Can we talk about climate change now?' Well, I guess they can. At first, the possibility that global warming might have something to do with the extraordinary weather -- which has dumped...
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