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United Kingdom: Fracking's risks and benefits
2013-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UK government recently lifted its moratorium on the controversial process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The technique involves pumping fluids into a well to recover natural gas from shale rock. However, fracking has been linked to some minor earthquakes, and there are concerns about its possible environmental impact. So what benefits could hydraulic fracturing bring, and how concerned should we be? During the recent debate on fracking technology in the UK, we may have been...
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United Kingdom: Floods 'made worse by failure to clear water courses'
2013-01-03 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The Met Office has confirmed that last year was the second wettest on record for the UK, just a few millimetres short of the record in 2000. The national forecasters also said that extreme rainfall has become more common in the last few decades, possibly as a consequence of climate change. Floods caused damage to thousands of properties, as well as destroying crops and causing transport chaos. Mr Paterson said a number of people have complained to him that failure to clear out rivers and...
United Kingdom: Prince of Wales: countryside is "as precious as an ancient cathedral"
2013-01-03 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In an impassioned speech to the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC), the Prince also said the countryside is threatened by flooding, drought and the outbreak of plant disease such as ash dieback. He said the only way to protect Britain's rural landscape is to support the farmers responsible for maintaining fields, buildings and businesses - especially small family farms struggling to survive. "It is the people and what they do that creates the beating heart of our countryside -- the vitality that comes...
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United Kingdom: Extreme rainfall on the rise, is climate change to blame?
2013-01-03 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Week UK: BRITAIN endured its second wettest year on record in 2012 and the Met Office has warned that "extreme rainfall" is becoming more frequent, something that could be connected to climate change. Although the first few months of last year were dry, the rest of 2012 was a washout, and by the end of December the total rainfall stood at 1330.7mm, just 6.6mm off the record set in 2000. Four of the five wettest years since records began in 1910 have occurred since the turn of the century. "Changes in...
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United Kingdom: Engineers call for technical fix to tackle rising rainfall
2013-01-03 13:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Engineers have today called for the creation of a new national Water Security Task Force, as the Met Office confirmed that 2012 came within a few millimetres of being named the wettest year since records began. The Met Office announced this morning that total annual average rainfall for the UK reached 1,330.7mm last year, just 6.6mm short of the record set in 2000. In addition, the agency reported that England achieved its wettest year since records began, despite spending the first three months...
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