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United Kingdom: Flood defences: George Osborne tackled yesterday’s crisis at the cost of today’s
Posted by Guardian: Chris Huhne on February 16th, 2014
Guardian: There is no excuse. In 2010 the coalition slashed spending on flood defences when it should have gone up. Even last year's increase in flood defence spending was under duress. The insurers, some of the most enlightened big businesses on this issue, have repeatedly warned about the rising claims and losses from climate change-induced extreme weather.
A confidential deal struck last June, ahead of the spending review, increased flood defence spending as a payback for the insurance companies continuing...
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United Kingdom: Ttruth about David Cameron fracking fairytale
Posted by Guardian: Chris Huhne on January 26th, 2014
Guardian: Davos tends to turn the hardest of heads. During the annual meetings, where businesses pay big bucks to rub shoulders with political leaders and thinkers, a contagious aura of smugness fills this Alpine valley like a fog, killing much sense of reality.
Politicians need a quick corridor story to sell their country's virtues, and David Cameron has landed on a peculiarly ill-informed one. Most narratives are falsifiable only with the passage of time, but Cameron's story is demonstrably a fairytale...
It won’t be long before the victims of climate change make the west pay
Posted by Guardian: Chris Huhne on December 29th, 2013
Guardian: Would you enjoy the cosiness and warmth of Christmas with your children or grandchildren just that little bit less if you knew that other people's children were dying because of it? More than four million children under five years old are now at risk of acute malnutrition in the Sahel, an area of the world that is one of the clearest victims of the rich world's addiction to fossil fuels.
About 18 million people in the Sahel – the vulnerable pan-African strip of land that runs from Senegal to Sudan...