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United Kingdom: Energy policy U-turns 'may cost households 120 a year'
2016-03-03 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Changes in government energy policy since the last election have chased off investors and may have added 120 a year to household bills, according to a parliamentary report. Thursdays report, from the energy and climate change committee, argues future domestic and business power bills may be higher than necessary as a result of changes including U-turns on funding onshore windfarms and energy efficiency schemes. Billions of pounds of investment is needed in order to replace ageing energy infrastructure,...
United Kingdom: How to combat climate change from your garden
2016-02-27 08:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: When the screenwriter William Goldman said "nobody knows anything", he was talking about the inability of anyone in Hollywood to predict what would turn out to be the next blockbuster. But he might equally have been talking about gardening and climate change, where no one seems to know for sure what to expect, or how to prepare for it. So I was intrigued to see a report of a project by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh attempting to answer that question. Edinburgh and its three regional outposts...
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United Kingdom: Global warming will unleash increasingly devastating floods in coming years, scientists warn
2016-02-02 11:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Climate change made the severe storms which flooded the Somerset Levels in 2014 much more likely, according to new research that suggests global warming will unleash increasingly devastating floods in coming years. The report finds that man-made greenhouse gas emissions have increased the chance of extreme flooding by 43 per cent, as the warming climate holds larger quantities of moisture, which leads to heavier rainfall. What was once a 1 in 100-year event in a world without climate change is...
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United Kingdom: Spending watchdog to examine scrapping 1bn carbon capture plan
2016-01-31 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The National Audit Office is to investigate George Osbornes decision to scrap a 1bn prototype carbon capture scheme which cost the taxpayer at least 60m, a letter seen by the Guardian shows. The spending watchdog said it would be looking into the expenses incurred in running, and then prematurely halting, a CCS auction. It will also examine how the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) plans to secure the countrys future energy needs. In the coming weeks we will begin work looking...
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United Kingdom: Twenty years after protests, what is legacy of Newbury bypass?
2016-01-24 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Blink and you miss it. Just past the Tot Hill McDonalds, 20ft above the northbound carriageway of the Newbury bypass in Berkshire, an old oak stands over hundreds of young saplings. Named Middle Oak by people who lived up it for months in the bitter winter of 1996, it is the only physical reminder of the 35 protest camps built high in the trees on the route of the most controversial new road in recent British history. Middle Oak was the only one of 10,000 mature trees in the path of the road...
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