Author: nickhumberstone

The Green Party has responded to the news that greenhouse gases have continued to rise by attacking the shortsighted attitudes of the UK and global governments ‘We have known the risk for 30 years,’ said Carl Benfield, the Greens spokesperson on the Climate Emergency in East Midlands.  ‘More greenhouse gases mean more global temperature rise, […]

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Floods have always happened, what is changing is both the frequency of flooding and its impact on communities and infrastructure. ‘Extreme weather events’ are becoming a new normal.  Flooding is now imposing increasing costs on local authorities and households – costs that in the era of public austerity have been difficult to meet. The Year […]

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