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United Kingdom: On climate change, Ed Miliband must match his bold words with real action
2014-02-17 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 'Either denial or dither on climate change will damage the country," says Ed Miliband, perhaps going a bit too heavy on the alliteration. The science, he reminds us, is clear, and he wants to somehow rebuild a national consensus. Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in. He wants us to understand the true meaning of the recent floods and restore climate change to the prominence it enjoyed before the anti-climax of 2009's UN Copenhagen...
United Kingdom: Flood area defences put on hold by government funding cuts
2014-02-16 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Flood-stricken communities, including those visited by David Cameron in the Somerset Levels and Yalding in Kent, have been left without planned defences following government funding cuts, the Guardian can reveal. Undelivered defences, totalling many millions of pounds, also include schemes on the stretch of Devon coast at Dawlish where the mainline railway fell into the sea and near the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Ministers have been heavily criticised for cutting flood...
United Kingdom: Ed Miliband exploiting flooding crisis to score political points, says No 10
2014-02-16 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Ed Miliband has been accused by Downing Street of trying to score "political points' from the flooding crisis after claiming that climate change has become a "national security issue'. In an interview with The Observer, the Labour leader linked flooding to climate change and warned that it has the potential to destroy homes, businesses and livelihoods in Britain. He criticised David Cameron for appearing to backtrack on his commitment to the environmental cause in the face of scepticism within...
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United Kingdom: Flood defences: George Osborne tackled yesterday's crisis at the cost of today's
2014-02-16 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is no excuse. In 2010 the coalition slashed spending on flood defences when it should have gone up. Even last year's increase in flood defence spending was under duress. The insurers, some of the most enlightened big businesses on this issue, have repeatedly warned about the rising claims and losses from climate change-induced extreme weather. A confidential deal struck last June, ahead of the spending review, increased flood defence spending as a payback for the insurance companies continuing...
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United Kingdom: Police attack Barton Moss anti-fracking protestors
2014-02-16 21:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: After anti-fracking protestors scored an important legal victory at Barton Moss, Manchester Police responded with outright violence and intimidation. The message was clear: 'Never mind the Courts and Judges. We are are the law.' This is political policing, re-enforced with overt aggression - what took place today appears to be political policing in favour of a corporate agenda. After the District Judge had declared Barton Moss Road a public footpath (see here), and the successful blockade of...
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