A new report is warning that the majority of new local plans in England are failing to cut carbon emissions and to plan for the scale of severe weather predicted over future years. The report Planning for the Climate Challenge? Understanding the performance of English Local Plans, which examined the most recently prepared plans in England, found […]
Climate change experts always warn of exceptional weather and earlier this year we highlighted this in relation to the northern floods and rainfall levels. This set of five articles outlines how thinking is changing on: 1 & 2 How scientists are attributing exceptional weather events to climate change 3 – 5 Cover more extremes: global temperatures […]
CEH ‘A relentless sequence of storms, record rainfall and sustained very high river flows in parts of the UK meant that December was an extraordinary month in both meteorological and hydrological terms, with wet conditions across the north contributed to the wettest calendar month on record for the UK (in a series from 1910). Slow-moving […]
Bob Earll ‘The warning reports have been published. We have great difficulty in assessing ‘events’ in the context of a changing baseline. This is aided by our amnesia over past events. Remember the floods of 2007 and the Pitt report. This winter’s floods have shown that we – in particular George Osborne – needs to […]