UK issued stark warning or risk floods and wildfires in climate 'disaster'
The UK is being warned that not enough is being done to prepare for “tomorrow’s disaster” of floods, heatwaves, drought and wildfires, its climate advisers have warned.
Independent advisory Climate Change Committee raised fears that spending needed to protect communities and critical services such as the NHS from worsening weather extremes could be cut in the summer spending review.
In a new report released by the committee, they've warned there has been no improvement since its last assessment in 2023, and accused the new government of failing to deliver the change in approach needed.
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Ah - spending.
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Last Christmas I was given a book of historic photographs of our area: Portsmouth Point. You know the sort of thing - Victorian and 20th Century photos, usually to record notable events. Royal visits, military bands, local disasters, etc.
I was struck by how many of the photos recorded floods. Kids rowing down the high street, fishermen carrying old ladies through knee-deep water, shops awash. Now we are protected by steel flood gates, but it seems to have been a very regular occurrence. Every few years there was a " big one", but people just accepted it.
Rising sea levels, though. 1906 was particularly nasty.
Just divert the flood waters to put out the wildfires. Simples.
Spending? They left off "other people's money to little or no effect". . .
Sam - yes, old photos can be very revealing. There is a low lying area a few miles from here which old photos show has been flooded every now and then for at least a century. Can't blame it on rising sea levels in Derbyshire though.
DJ - that would never do, it's lateral thinking.
Jannie - yes they did leave it out, did they forget?
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