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Scientists Need Your Help to Discern Global Warming's Role in UK Floods
2014-03-05 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: A team of climate scientists in the UK has launched an ambitious citizen science effort to quickly assess the role that manmade global warming may have played in that region's extraordinarily wet winter. The program, known as the Weather@Home 2014 project, is part of a longer term and international push to develop scientific techniques to gain insight into the relationship between global warming and extreme weather events, from heavy precipitation events to heat waves. The winter of 2013-14...
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UK floods: Raise roads and redesign houses, engineers say
2014-02-25 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Houses should be redesigned, roads raised and tidal lagoons built that generate energy to reduce the impact of flooding in the UK, according to a panel of senior engineers and academics. Recent flooding has affected large parts of southern England in the UK's wettest winter on record - particularly the Somerset Levels and Thames valley, resulting in more than 5,000 homes and businesses being flooded, major road and rail networks disrupted, and a political row over who is to blame. "In some...
AUDIO: 'Floods to cost insurers up to 1bn'
2014-02-24 12:40:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Bronek Masojada, chief executive of Hiscox Insurers, discusses the costs incurred by the insurance industry due to recent flooding.
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Wildlife casualties of floods grow amid fears over 'polluted' wetlands
2014-02-23 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Seals, moles, hedgehogs, badgers, mice, earthworms and a host of insects and seabirds are among the unseen casualties of the floods, storms and torrential rains of the last few weeks, say wildlife groups. As the waters started to subside across England, conservationists reported that about 600 guillemots, puffins, razorbills, kittiwakes and gulls have been washed up on the south coast and 250 seals drowned in Norfolk, Cornwall and the Channel Islands. A further 11,000 seabirds are reported to...
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Poll: 47% of Britons say floods are a result of climate change
2014-02-21 10:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Almost half of UK voters believe that the floods and storms that have recently affected Britain are a result of climate change, a new poll has revealed. Forty-seven per cent of the people asked said they supported the view that the flooding was probably the result of changing weather patterns due to climate change, while 39% disagreed. Interestingly, the survey found that respondents opinions on climate change are clearly divided down political lines. Labour and Lib Dem voters supported...
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