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Climate change: UK faces 'more extreme events and floods'
2014-03-31 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Jim Hall, a Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, has come out in support the IPCC's climate change report. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that flooding, droughts, heat waves and wildfires will pose a massive threat to humans in the future as climate change worsens. Professor Hall said that the UK will see increasing temperatures and more extreme events. "What we've seen this winter is consistent...
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Climate change: While we fiddle, the world burns & floods and parches
2014-03-28 05:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Heres a statistic for you. Out of 10,855 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals last year that dealt with some aspect of global warming, all but two accepted human behavior as the primary cause. Oddly, that represents a bit of backsliding. The previous year, only one study rejected human factors, according to an annual roundup by geochemist James Lawrence Powell and reported by Salon. Science is not a theory but a process, a mechanism for distilling truth from observation. As astrophysicist...
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Spring Thaw May Trigger Floods; Calif. Drought Locked In
2014-03-20 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Spring is finally -- finally -- here. That word is music to the ears of those in the eastern United States who are ready to thaw out from the frigid winter. But that thaw could bring flooding to parts of the Midwest and the northern Plains, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its official spring outlook, released Thursday. Conversely, in the West, where a persistent drought has kept most of California firmly in its grip, the spring looks to bring more of the same: warm,...
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Floods 'give UK jobs market boost'
2014-03-11 01:23:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK's winter floods have given the jobs market an 'unexpected boost', says recruitment firm Manpower.
Restoring peat bogs to prevent floods
2014-03-07 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Roger Harrabin looks how the Exmoor peat bogs are being restored to their natural state to help soak up water - preventing it running off into rivers and causing flooding further downstream. He talks to Professor Richard Brazier from Exeter University about the process.
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