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Wildfire warning: Heatwave death toll as high as up to 760 - and farms at risk
2013-07-18 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Farmers will be on high-alert this weekend as the heatwave threatens to unleash a wave of fires that could ruin crops across the country, a senior Met Office scientist has warned. As Britain clocked up its sixth consecutive day of plus-30C temperatures - with the thermometer peaking at 30.4C soon-to-be harvested crops such as wheat and winter barley are looking particularly vulnerable to fire, said Karl Kitchen, the Met Office scientist with responsibility for wildfires. He issued his crop-fire...
United Kingdom: Heatwave latest: Up to 760 killed and total may double as temperatures above 30C are set to continue
2013-07-18 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The heatwave has been responsible for as many as 760 deaths, according to official calculations, as the UK enters the sixth day of plus-30C temperatures. The temperature today is forecast to hit 31.0C, following yesterdays year-high of 31.9C at Heathrow, marking the longest heatwave for seven years. Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine for The Times has estimated the death toll for the first nine days of the heatwave at between 540 and 760 people in England alone....
United Kingdom: Millions told to ration water as heatwave sends demand up by 50 percent
2013-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Four of Britain's biggest water companies Severn Trent, Affinity, South East and Yorkshire told customers to cut back and use water "wisely" as temperatures hit a record 32 degrees centigrade. The Met Office issued a "level three heat health watch" for London and the south-east amid predictions that July could be the driest since records began 247 years ago. Affinity, a water company that supplies three-and-a-half million homes across north London and the home counties, issued an alert admitting...
Heatwave: Spring was freezing. Summers boiling. Wed better get used to these surprises
2013-07-17 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: In April 1989, when the then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher was still in the full flush of her discovery of the threat of climate change, she hosted a seminar on global warming for the cabinet, at 10 Downing Street. They all had to attend, like slacking schoolboys. The grumbling must have been memorable. The seminar was addressed by Mrs Thatchers favourite diplomat, Sir Crispin Tickell, a former UN ambassador who was himself seized of the climate threat, and by her favourite scientist, Jim...
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Heatwave Britain - are we putting our heads in the sand?
2013-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: At last, the UK looks set to enjoy a real summer. Tuesday will be the hottest day of the year and the heatwave is forecast to last well into next week. But there are two sides to sunny weather. While the population at large has been rejoicing around the barbecue, health authorities have warned that extreme summer heat is set to become the norm and that we need to get better at preparing for it. The deaths of two soldiers during a training exercise in Wales on Saturday have brought home the...
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