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United Kingdom: Ed Miliband: 'Britain is sleepwalking to a climate crisis'
2014-02-15 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We are on the 3.30pm train from Birmingham to London and it feels like a race against time. Outside, the fields are flooded and the rain is lashing down. More bad weather is heading in fast from the west. Two days before, on Wednesday, Virgin Trains called a temporary, early-evening halt to services in and out of Euston and passengers are worried it may do so again. Aside from a nagging anxiety about getting home, Ed Miliband is having a decent day. Earlier, he dropped in on south Manchester,...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron has fumbled the flooding crisis voters' verdict
2014-02-15 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than twice as many people think David Cameron has mishandled the flooding crisis as think he has responded well, according to the latest Opinium/Observer poll. The survey will also alarm the Tories Labour has increased its lead by two points to 9% and Ed Miliband's personal ratings have improved markedly to a level close to those of the PM. Some 51% of people say Cameron responded badly to the floods, with 28% of these saying he reacted "very badly" and 23% "quite badly". Some 23% say...
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Environment Agency job cuts on hold due to UK floods crisis
2014-02-14 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Plans for hundreds of redundancies at the Environment Agency have been put on hold because of the floods crisis sweeping the country. The agency's chief executive has sent an email to staff saying that the response to the flooding is taking priority over other work. Paul Leinster said: "We are quite rightly prioritising incident response above all other work. With this in mind, we are reviewing the timetable for the change programme. "We will not be taking further decisions on work stream...
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Flood simple: the UK flooding crisis explained
2014-02-13 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The only way now into the heart of the village of Moorland on the Somerset Levels, the epicentre of the unprecedented battering Britain is taking from the elements, is in an amphibious vehicle or on a tractor trailer. Mark and Kate Kirby were using the tractor trailer method to take another look at their four-bedroomed semi, which had never flooded in its 150-year history, but is now waist-deep in water. Its got worse, said Mr Kirby, a wholesale fruit and veg supplier after his latest trip...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron holds crisis cabinet meeting as floods continue
2014-02-13 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron convened a special cabinet committee on flooding for the first time on Thursday, when ministers were given an update on the extent of power and transport disruption caused by overnight storms. The meeting had originally been called to discuss a longer-term government response to the floods crisis, but is also having to look at wider infrastructure disruption. The meeting came as the shadow environment secretary, Maria Eagle, said spending on climate change adaptation and mitigation...
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