Environmental stories tagged with: weather
Johnson launches climate change adaption strategy
Thursday, 28th August 2008, 7:25 pm
London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has launched his strategy for Climate Change Adaptation in London. The report shows that currently London is not designed to cope with the predicted changes. The launch of the strategy comes weeks after the Government's chief scientist advised that the UK needs to adapt to increased average global temperatures of four degrees.
 Insurance Industry to Tackle Climate ChangeTuesday, 18th September 2007, 4:57 pm
Since 1990, weather-related insurance claims have cost an average of £825 million per year in the UK, and have exceeded £1 billion in four out of the last 15 years. In the unusually hot summer of 1995, net losses to agriculture were estimated to be £180 million.
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 Error Found in US Climate DataMonday, 20th August 2007, 5:23 pm
NASA has recently corrected an error in its weather station data. The correction changes the warmest year in America from 2006 to 1934.
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 Met Office Predict a Dry SummerTuesday, 1st May 2007, 5:15 pm
Today, the Met Office released its forecast for the summer, and it's going to be warm.
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