Britain should expect increasingly tropical weather for the future.
Research carried out at Newcastle University and released today shows that rainfall over the past 40 years has become more frequent and more likely to lead to flooding, “[providing] further evidence of climate change occurring.”
Dr Hayley Fowler, a member of the research team who will speak about [...]

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The EC has threatened harsh penalties for car manufacturers who fail to reduce carbon emissions, according to this report.
“The warning came after new figures showed that CO2 emissions from new cars dropped by 12.4% between 1995 and 2004. But the industry had agreed to cut average CO2 emissions to 140g per km by 2008-09 - [...]