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United Kingdom: Cameron vows visit every flood-hit part of country to 'learn lessons'
2014-02-17 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The prime minister, David Cameron, will aim to visit every flood-hit area around the country "to try and learn lessons" after speaking with residents in one of the country's most flooded towns. Cameron defended the government's handling of the crisis and hit back at criticism that he was visiting places such as Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire, where the army was deployed after the town was cut in two by floodwaters, only after the damage had already been done. Earlier, he described the...
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United Kingdom: Miliband wades into climate change and flooding row
2014-02-17 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Labour leader Ed Miliband has made his boldest intervention to date in the long-running debate over the UK's climate policy, warning that floods have highlighted how the UK risks "sleepwalking into a national security crisis on climate change". In an interview with the Observer newspaper, conducted while he toured flood hit areas last week, Miliband argued that the country's political class urgently needs to rebuild the political consensus on climate policy that held sway in the run up to the...
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United Kingdom: On climate change, Ed Miliband must match his bold words with real action
2014-02-17 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 'Either denial or dither on climate change will damage the country," says Ed Miliband, perhaps going a bit too heavy on the alliteration. The science, he reminds us, is clear, and he wants to somehow rebuild a national consensus. Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in. He wants us to understand the true meaning of the recent floods and restore climate change to the prominence it enjoyed before the anti-climax of 2009's UN Copenhagen...
United Kingdom: Flood area defences put on hold by government funding cuts
2014-02-16 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Flood-stricken communities, including those visited by David Cameron in the Somerset Levels and Yalding in Kent, have been left without planned defences following government funding cuts, the Guardian can reveal. Undelivered defences, totalling many millions of pounds, also include schemes on the stretch of Devon coast at Dawlish where the mainline railway fell into the sea and near the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Ministers have been heavily criticised for cutting flood...
United Kingdom: Ed Miliband exploiting flooding crisis to score political points, says No 10
2014-02-16 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Ed Miliband has been accused by Downing Street of trying to score "political points' from the flooding crisis after claiming that climate change has become a "national security issue'. In an interview with The Observer, the Labour leader linked flooding to climate change and warned that it has the potential to destroy homes, businesses and livelihoods in Britain. He criticised David Cameron for appearing to backtrack on his commitment to the environmental cause in the face of scepticism within...
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