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In an editorial for the Guardian, Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution at the UK Met Office addresses the issue of extreme weather phenomena and the potential link to climate change. He stresses a need for a new advance in forecasting systems to help identify changing trends in extremes...
The UK Guardian reports that 'the death toll could have been much lower, assistance much more quickly and efficiently at hand, the state has failed its citizens, and now the country is unprepared to deal with the floods' in a call for disaster risk management...
Thousands of miles of railway track to be examined for ability to withstand storms, flooding and heatwaves: the Guardian UK reports on the climate change adaptation programme, commissioned by the rail industry safety board...
In a Guardian report, Bill McGuire, head of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, asserts that 'the IPCC is also strongly exhorted to address more explicitly in future assessments the impact of anthropogenic climate change on the geosphere, together with its manifold potentially hazardous consequences'...
Rowan Moore reports for the Guardian UK on the 'Make it Right' project, launched by the actor, Brad Pitt, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the aim of rebuilding 150 sustainable and storm resistant homes in New Orleans...
'What we know from the science of climate change is that weather patterns are going to become more extreme. The risk is going to get greater and we need to up our game in response to that' said Chris Smith, the EA chairman, at the UK House of Commons environmental audit committee (EAC) last week...
An editorial from the Guardian UK in anticipation of the International day for disaster reduction, taking place worldwide tomorrow, 13 October 2009. A conference on safer hospitals will mark the event in London...
The Guardian reports on the challenges ahead in implementing measures to adapt to climate change: 'strengthened flood prevention measures, early warning systems and sound building codes...' as stated by Sha Zukang, UN under-secretary general for economic and social affairs....
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