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Changing the Conversation on Climate Change
Posted by Bloomberg: Rohit T. Aggarwala on February 3rd, 2013
Bloomberg: Politically, environmentalism has had a few good months in the U.S. Hurricane Sandy put the words “climate change” back in the national vocabulary. Republican attempts to attack Democrats for waging a “war on coal” failed to win many votes in states like Virginia and Ohio on Election Day. In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama made climate action a priority. A climate rally in Washington is being planned for later this month, and the president has committed to conducting a “national...
United Kingdom: We must be prepared for the flooding caused by a ‘new kind of rain,’ says Lord Smith
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2013
Telegraph: "We are much safer than we were, but there is a constant need to upgrade and improve the defences,' he says. "With more extreme weather patterns happening now and the prospect of the sea level rising over the next 50 years or so, we have to become even more vigilant.'
Lord Smith is in a café in Canvey Island, Essex, on the sea wall built after the terrible events of January 31, 1953. Waves from the North Sea, overcome barriers along the coast, flooding homes suddenly in winter darkness.
"This...
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