A catastrophe if global warming falls off the international agenda

Guardian: A month's rain fell in a day last week in parts of Britain. There were 140 flood warnings in the north of England, rain forcing the evacuation of Croston and Darwen in Lancashire; elsewhere, it washed out the Isle of Wight festival. Indeed, rainfall over the last three months has broken new records – following two years in which less rain had fallen than at any time since the 1920s. This is part of a wider pattern. It is not just that world temperatures are on average steadily rising, the weather...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/will-hutton-climate-change-action?newsfeed=true
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