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No Johnson Creek floods or Willamette River sewage discharges after weekend rainstorms

2014-02-19 23:33:02| PortlandOnline

Steve Law in the Portland Tribune, February 19, 2014

United Kingdom: Barrage over climate change link to floods

2014-02-18 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: As the barrage of bad weather eases, another kind of turbulence is brewing over one of the potential causes. Listen to some environmental campaigners and you might think that there is total certainty that global warming led to the recent rain; listen to some climate sceptics and there is absolutely no connection at all. Viewers have berated me either for failing to explicitly blame climate change in my reporting of the floods - or for suggesting that the rain may conceivably have been made...

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PM set to meet insurance industry over UK floods

2014-02-18 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: David Cameron has planned to meet insurers to discuss measures to help those affected by the flooding, as wealthier households face a 1,000 increase in their annual insurance premium. Insurance bosses reported they have paid 14 million to flood victims since the emergency began in December. The government will meet representatives from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) on Tuesday. However, it was suggested that wealthier householders on council band H might face premium increases...

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UK floods: in defence of the Environment Agency

2014-02-18 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The flooding crisis has shone a spotlight on much that the government would prefer to remain hidden not least the coalition's quiet slashing of the Environment Agency budget. Despite advice in the wake of the 2007 floods to increase expenditure on flood defences, the government relied on its traditional mistrust of the public sector and the experts within it, and used the blunt instrument of cash limits. Prime minister David Cameron said money would be "no object" to dealing with the immediate...

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