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Houses should be redesigned, roads raised and tidal lagoons built that generate energy to reduce the impact of flooding in the UK, according to a panel of senior engineers and academics, reports the Guardian. 'In some senses we're still in a mode of 'discovery by disaster'...
'The issue that concerns me is that adaptation is reactive at the moment. As the rate of change accelerates, being responsive won’t be the most cost effective thing to do. We need a more strategic approach to adaptation, otherwise we will always be behind the eight ball,' Steve Crimp, senior research scientist for the CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship, told Guardian Australia...
'The UK's floods, Australia's record heat, the intense cold in the US, and the unparalleled force of Asian storms remind us that the real issue is intensity. We have to prepare, not just for too much water, but too little; not just for rain but for record tides and winds. The cost of adaptation to the effects of climate change is significant and so far hardly recognised,' according to John Gummer...
The number of deaths caused by hot weather are expected to rise due to climate change, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, reports The Guardian...
Despite the backdrop of financial crises the long-term impacts to society are potentially too dangerous to ignore. It is critical that economies begin to confront and adapt to the changes that are already underway...
At 3,800 metres above sea level, on the high plateaus of the Andes 'Adapting to climate change is above all a question of combating rural poverty,' says Lenkiza Angulo of Climate Change Adaptation Programme. Local residents have been involved in activities such as daily data collection at the weather station and water conservation projects...
Ida Auken, Danish minister for the environment has put forward a climate adaptation plan and posed the questions: What is most important for adapting to climate change? And who else do we need to talk to as we prepare our climate adaptation plans?...
'Flood defence, or so we are told almost everywhere, is about how much concrete you can pour. It's about not building houses in stupid places on the floodplain, and about using clever new engineering techniques to defend those already there. But that's a small part of the story,' explains George Monbiot on the pages of The Guardian...
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