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14 Jan 2018

Billion £ storms: The economic cost of the winter 2015-2016 floods

1. UK could face harsher and more frequent winter storms Carbon Brief reports on a new study, which finds that the UK could face harsher and more frequent winter storms if global emissions aren’t curbed. The research uses modelling to investigate how rising global temperatures could change the movements of mid-latitude storms by the end […]

10 Nov 2016

Four Reactions to the EFRA Committee Flooding Report

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Four reactions to EFRA Committee report Bob Earll The scale of the events: In the face of three major winter storm – flood events in 2012, 2013-14 and 2015-16 – billion pound storms – MPs clearly felt the need to speak out. These events are becoming almost normal and they are characterised not by just […]

11 May 2016

The Billion pound storms & floods – costs of the winter 2013-14 floods

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We seem to have had a run of these major complex storm – flood events. Some things we know: They seem to be becoming commoner: 2012, 2013-14 in the SW & Somerset, 2015-16 in Cumbria and the north They are very expensive to deal with – no change out of a billion … The location […]