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Which is more likely to drive people from their homes floods or heat waves?
2014-02-03 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Floods get a lot of attention in our warming world. They can kill people and livestock, inundate crops, destroy infrastructure and homes - and they make great photo ops. Less attention - and less international aid - is directed to victims of intense heat waves that are also linked to climate change. But it is these heat waves that are most responsible when Pakistanis leave their villages, new research suggests. Pakistan is a depressing climate case study because its residents are so vulnerable...
United Kingdom: Why the floods a challenge for us to work with nature, not against it
2014-02-03 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For the residents of Muchelney and Moorland, in the heart of the Somerset Levels, the misery goes on. Homes under water, roads cut off, and vast lakes of water where once there were open fields. For dairy farmers, already under pressure from low milk prices and higher feed costs, this could be the final straw. I live nearby, but our home is 50ft above sea level, and our village has escaped the worst of the flooding. Even so, I have been inundated with messages from friends, wondering if we too...
Britain's floods: strategy on the level
2014-02-02 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One night last December, three houses disappeared into the sea off the Norfolk coast as a huge storm surge sucked away thousands of tonnes of rock and sand from beneath them. What happened at Hemsby, and also along the coast at Happisburgh, was extreme. But not unprecedented. "O Tide that waits for no man / Spare our coasts!" sing the Suffolk fishing villagers in Britten's 1945 opera Peter Grimes, and, over the next 50 years from now, hundreds more homes could be claimed by rising water, inland as...
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Floods and storms predicted across Britain as weather misery continues
2014-02-02 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Met Office is warning the weather pattern that has caused flooding across swaths of the UK may continue for the rest of the month as the weekend's storms resulted in 180 more homes being inundated and led to a series of dramatic rescues. Forecasters say this week is likely to be blighted by torrential rain and winds of more than 70mph, while high tides and a heavy Atlantic swell will continue to add to the problems for the next day or so. But, looking further forward, the Met Office said unsettled...
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United Kingdom: Climate change not main cause of floods, scientists suggest
2014-01-22 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Climate change is not the main cause of floods, scientists have suggested. The debate on whether recent floods were caused by global warming is a distraction from "the things we already know for certain', according to research. Any links between climate change and flooding are "highly complex' and experts have struggled to make a case for the theory, a study has said, whereas human activity such as building on floodplains is known to make flooding worse. The Prime Minister told MPs in the...
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