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26 January 2012, 10:37
Wow. No contradiction there then.
Flooding will be Britains biggest climate risk with almost five million people to be affected over the next 100 years, a report has revealed.
Heavier rainfall predicted in a warmer atmosphere will cause more floods, worsening damage and disruption to infrastructure and property, it said.
And then....
It projected that the number of days a year temperatures will rise above 26C will jump from 18 days to between 27 and 121 days in London by the 2080s, adding that the higher summer temperatures could see heat-related deaths rise to 6,000 by the 2050s.
Other risks include an increase in water shortages, with a potential deficit of between 773 and 2,570 million litres of water a day in the Thames river basin - up from a shortfall of 59 million litres a day currently.
Must be a slow News day. Does the editor read these before they go out, or do they rely on folk just reading the headlines
Flooding will be Britains biggest climate risk with almost five million people to be affected over the next 100 years, a report has revealed.
Heavier rainfall predicted in a warmer atmosphere will cause more floods, worsening damage and disruption to infrastructure and property, it said.
And then....
It projected that the number of days a year temperatures will rise above 26C will jump from 18 days to between 27 and 121 days in London by the 2080s, adding that the higher summer temperatures could see heat-related deaths rise to 6,000 by the 2050s.
Other risks include an increase in water shortages, with a potential deficit of between 773 and 2,570 million litres of water a day in the Thames river basin - up from a shortfall of 59 million litres a day currently.
Must be a slow News day. Does the editor read these before they go out, or do they rely on folk just reading the headlines
Sailing away, not close to the wind.
