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United Kingdom: Floods threaten thousands of homes along the Thames
2014-02-10 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of homes along the Thames have been told to prepare for significant flooding, as the number of severe flood warnings in the south of England rises to 16. Fourteen of the warnings relate to a lengthy stretch of the Thames through Berkshire and Surrey, and two remain in place in the Somerset Levels. The Environment Agency (EA) said the Thames warnings stretched "from Datchet to Shepperton Green, including Ham Court and Chertsey, as river levels in the area are extremely high and are...
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United Kingdom: Don't blame the Environment Agency for floods. Blame the spending rules
2014-02-09 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Over the past two and a half months, Britain has faced the most extreme series of weather events we have ever experienced. The surge down the east coast of England in early December was the biggest in 60 years, and in some cases even higher than in the tragedy of 1953. The storms over Christmas and new year were unprecedented, and they have since been followed by the wettest January in the south since records began. Last week the highest waves ever recorded in Britain were crashing against...
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United Kingdom: Ministers playing politics with floods, says Environment Agency chief
2014-02-09 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ministers are "playing politics" with the flood crisis and "getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job", according to an unprecedented outburst from the embattled boss of the Environment Agency, who blamed the government for limiting the agency's response. Hitting back at the vitriolic criticism that has been aimed at him and his agency for weeks one MP has called him a "git" and threatened to "stick his head down the loo and flush" Lord Smith said the attacks had been unlike...
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United Kingdom: Floods crisis intensifies as Met Office warns of yet more rain
2014-02-09 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The flooding crisis intensified Sunday as householders in some of the UK's most exclusive riverside neighbourhoods on the banks of the Thames were issued with severe flood warnings, the rail link to the south-west remained completely cut off and the Met Office warned yet more rain was on the way. Police were investigating whether the death of a seven-year-old boy was connected to the floodwater that swamped his Surrey home and rescuers were searching for a canoeist who went missing on the river...
UK floods: political blame game deepens as weather warnings persist
2014-02-09 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With forecasts of at least another week of gales and torrential rain, severe weather warnings and hundreds of flood alerts covering the entire south and south-west coasts of England, and all rail links to the West Country severed for the first time, the flood waters and the political blame game are both deepening. Firefighters, assisted by soldiers from a nearby barracks, were working round the clock to keep the floods away from an electricity substation at Burghfield, near Reading in Berkshire,...
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