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UK weather: The effects of the floods by numbers
2014-02-14 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The numbers below tell a story of extreme weather since the turn of the year, the wind and rain bringing much of England's south and South West to its knees: 23 -- the number of days it rained in January. 45 -- the number of years since the UK saw a December this windy, according the Met Office. 60 -- the number of years since the River Thames was this high. 78.8 -- the millimetres of rainfall recorded by MeteoGroup in the south east of England during the first 12 days of February, 380%...
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Will record floods finally shift UK climate debate?
2014-02-14 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: There is a possible silver lining to the disastrous floods swamping the UK - an end to public apathy on climate change The wettest January in the UK in 250 years followed by a stormy February have brought misery to many thousands. Floods have submerged large chunks of the south-west of the country, a key stretch of railway collapsed into the sea, and the river Thames spectacularly burst its banks, deluging towns and villages. As a statement from the UK's weather service, the Met Office, made...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron halts Environment Agency job cuts amid floods clean-up
2014-02-14 17:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The prime minister has said the Environment Agency will not lose 500 members of staff amid its efforts to deal with Britains flooding. However, he has not said whether the job cuts will go ahead once the situation has been dealt with. David Cameron told BBC Breakfast, Those have never been announced plans. These arent plans that are going to put in place. Of course every organisation has to make sure it is efficient but nothing will be done at the Environment Agency that will hamper our...
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United Kingdom: Floods make climate sceptics sweat
2014-02-14 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK floods are not just causing misery for thousands of people around the country whose lives and livelihoods have been disrupted. They are also making a few climate change sceptics hot beneath the collar. No doubt they are finding it an uncomfortable experience to realise that their misleading attempts to inform the public into believing that climate change poses no threat to the UK are now being undermined by the irrefutable evidence provided by the record rainfall and storm surges. First,...
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Environment Agency job cuts on hold due to UK floods crisis
2014-02-14 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Plans for hundreds of redundancies at the Environment Agency have been put on hold because of the floods crisis sweeping the country. The agency's chief executive has sent an email to staff saying that the response to the flooding is taking priority over other work. Paul Leinster said: "We are quite rightly prioritising incident response above all other work. With this in mind, we are reviewing the timetable for the change programme. "We will not be taking further decisions on work stream...
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