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Donald Trump will have to deal with climate change – Sky News
Sky News: The adventurer Sir David Hempleman-Adams has called on politicians to stop stalling and keep their promises to slow climate change. It was after he witnessed the impact of global warming during an expedition to the … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Climate Change, Energy, In the media, International, Interviews, People, Politics, Sky News, Sustainability, The Human Cost
Tagged adventurer, Arctic, carbon, climate, climate action, climate change, David Hempleman-Adams, emissions, explorer, famine, flooding, floods, global warming, ice, melt, North Pole, Obama, Paris Climate Agreement, risk, Sky News, storms, threat, Trump, UN, US, warming
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Will flood exercises better prepare us? – Sky News – 12 Sep 16
Sky News: The Environment agency is beginning to prepare for the winter months ahead, they are training with new barriers, pumps, vehicles and drones to test their flood responses. Well, joining me now is … Continue reading
Posted in Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Finance, In the media, Interviews, People, Politics, Sky News, Sustainability, The Human Cost
Tagged climate, climate change, coastal, communities, community, damage, E3G, emergency, Environment Agency, ethical investment, extreme weather, flood defences, flood plains, flood response, flooding, floods, forests, infrastructure, insurance, investment, rain, risk, rivers, sea level, Tom Burke, water, weather, woods
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Why are we so bad at responding to floods? – Tom Burke – LBC – 28 Dec 15
LBC: Lets speak to Tom Burke, he’s an environmentalist, and a former government adviser on the environment. Good morning Tom. Do you think that the government was warned about this or not? Tom … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Environment, Finance, In the media, International, Interviews, LBC, People, Radio, The Human Cost
Tagged business, climate, climate change, drought, environment, extreme weather, flood plains, flooded, flooding, floods, government, houses, insurance, rain, risk, river, temperature, warmer, water, weather, wildfires
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WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE FLOODS?
The question the government really needs to answer is why have we had so many unprecedented events in so short a space of time. A month’s rain fell in a day. This was the third time in … Continue reading
Posted in Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Finance, In the media, People, Politics, The Human Cost
Tagged climate, climate change, costs, Cumbria, defences, extreme weather, flood defences, flood plains, flooding, floods, government, money, rain, rainfall, security, storm, Storm Desmond, threat
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‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda
This article piece first appeared in The Guardian on Wednesday 26 March 2014 The decline of climate change on leaders’ agendas has been reversed – not by new analysis, but two years of extreme weather … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Business, Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, International, Politics, The Guardian
Tagged 2 degrees, 2C, America, Australia, awareness, Ban Ki Moon, Bangladesh, banking crisis, Brazil, California, carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophe, Chancellor Merkel, China, climate change, climate events, climate legislation, climate science, climate summit, CO2, Copenhagen, cost, damage, disaster, economy, extreme, extreme events, extreme weather, extreme weather events, flood, flooding, floods, fossil fuels, global, global temperatures, Harold Macmillan, heat, Hollande, Hurricane Sandy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Macmillan, Merkel, Obama, Paris 2015, Philippines, planet, policy, policy makers, political landscape, President Hollande, President Obama, science, St Jude, storm, storms, temperatures, The Guardian, transform, urgency, Vietnam, warmer, warming, weather events, worldwide
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Discussing Climate Change and Floods – BBC Radio 2 – 14th February 2014
Discussing climate change and floods – BBC Radio 2 with Jeremy Vine – 14th February 2014 “A way to think about what we are experiencing now is this; this is the trailer for climate change the movie, if you … Continue reading
Posted in Changing the Politics, Energy, Energy Security, In the media, Oil and Gas, People, Politics, Talks
Tagged carbon, carbon dioxide, climate, climate change, climate change the movie, CO2, energy, energy efficiency, energy security, extreme weather, flooding, floods, global warming, jet stream, renewable energy, storms, trailer, transition, warming, weather
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Discussing Climate Change on LBC Radio – 13th February 2014
Discussing climate change on LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari on 13th February 2014 “The climate is changing because we are putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, in some places that will lead to warming, in some places it will … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Energy Security, In the media, Politics, Talks
Tagged carbon, carbon dioxide, climate, climate change, CO2, cost, economy, efficiency, emissions, energy, extreme weather, flooding, floods, global warming, LBC, rain, rainfall, risk, storms, transition, warming, weather
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Debate on climate change with John Redwood MP – Sky News 11th Feb 2014
This clip first appeared on Sky News on 11 February with John Redwood MP on climate change. Tom Burke: “There is no doubt at all that this is exactly what climate scientists and environmentalists have been saying to … Continue reading
Posted in Changing the Politics, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, In the media, International, Oil and Gas, People, Politics, The Human Cost, Video blog
Tagged adaptation, carbon, climate, climate change, CO2, coal, cost, crisis, economy, emergency, emissions, energy, extreme weather, flooding, floods, fossil fuels
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