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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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United Kingdom: 'Floods' Minister Eric Pickles Apologises for Mistakes But Insists Government Not to Blame
2014-02-09 05:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has offered a long-awaited apology for the government response to the floods that continue to cover parts of the UK, but immediately claimed it was not ministers' fault. Instead, he laid the blame squarely at the door of the Environment Agency and its boss, Labour peer Lord Smith, who has found himself isolated and under attack from all sides. Following reports that the government had been warned of the potential problem almost a year ago, but persistently...
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Met Office Scientist Says Climate Change To Blame For UK Storms
2014-02-09 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The severe storms that have lashed southern England are almost certainly linked to climate change, the Met Office's top scientist has said. Dame Julia Slingo said: "In a nutshell, while there is no definitive answer for the current weather patterns that we have seen, all the evidence suggests that climate change has a role to play in it." Slingo was speaking before the publication of the Met Office's latest analysis on recent climatic events, by the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology. The report...
'Worse than useless': Flood-affected locals on the Somerset Levels blame plight on Environmental Agency
2014-02-04 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Like most of the residents of Muchelney, farmer Graham Walker has had enough of the floods that have left his fields underwater and his sheep scattered for six weeks. The village in the middle of the Somerset Levels has been cut off from the mainland since the New Year and, like most of his fellow residents, Mr Walker puts the blame squarely with the Environment Agency (EA) for its failure to dredge... local rivers. [It] has been worse than useless, he said. Weve told them for years...
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Apple's iPhone 'shortfall'? Blame Verizon, AT&T
2014-01-29 16:43:41| Apparel - Topix.net
A decline in smartphone sales at Verizon Wireless and AT&T is the primary culprit for iPhone sales that some on Wall Street have deemed disappointing.
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