These floods are the real cost of climate change

James S Murray
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Without urgent action on carbon emissions these floods are a taster of things to come

As the mop up operation from the second wave of "worst floods in living memory" to hit the UK in the last month gets underway, attention is already turning to the economic cost of the inundation experienced...

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