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Watchdog: Britain facing 'make-or-break moment' to build climate change resilience
UPI ^ | March 29, 2023 | By Paul Godfrey

Posted on 03/29/2023 6:05:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

(UPI) -- Britain is at a "make-or-break moment" to step up adaptation to climate change after extreme weather in 2022 saw thousands of heat-related deaths, wildfires and significant infrastructure disruption, the country's climate watchdog said Wednesday.

The impacts of climate change will only intensify over coming decades, leaving Britain vulnerable without better resilience planning and preparation, according to a report to parliament by the Climate Change Committee.

Models show "fully credible" government planning to adapt to key climate risks was on track to hit only 1 in 9 policy milestones while reductions in climate exposure and vulnerability were being delivered at an insufficient pace in every scenario.

"This is a make-or-break moment to avoid a further five years of lackluster planning and preparation for the changing climate by the Department for Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs," the report said.

Adaptation Committee chair Baroness Brown said the committee had "laid out a clear path for the government to improve the country's climate resilience" adding that government leaders "must step up."

"The government's lack of urgency on climate resilience is in sharp contrast to the experience of people in this country. People, nature and infrastructure face damaging impacts as climate change takes hold," said Brown.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism

1 posted on 03/29/2023 6:05:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they would dump all the illegals moving it their problems would be solved.


2 posted on 03/29/2023 6:08:58 AM PDT by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer



3 posted on 03/29/2023 6:11:28 AM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I vote for “break.”


4 posted on 03/29/2023 6:12:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

UK is a leader of the dumbness parade. But even they are being forced to concede that they need greater supplies of fossil fuel and even nuclear generation to survive until the eutopia of net zero happens.


5 posted on 03/29/2023 6:13:08 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: oldasrocks

America should do so too!


6 posted on 03/29/2023 6:16:10 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The impacts of climate change will only intensify over coming decades”

To qoute a common refrain - Where is the evidence?


7 posted on 03/29/2023 6:20:23 AM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: hinckley buzzard

“But even they are being forced to concede that they need greater supplies of fossil fuel and even nuclear generation to survive until the eutopia of net zero happens.”

Don’t be silly. Britons lived on those islands without petroleum, coal or nuclear for thousands of years. They can an should do it again. Of course, they were living in huts and wearing skins, but that’s a perfect status for the people who gave us King George.


8 posted on 03/29/2023 6:42:03 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This reminds me of the natives of Easter island.

Some calamity caused the natives to build huge statues of their ancestors or gods.
When this failed to alleviate their difficulty,they built more and bigger statues.
What they didn’t realize was the forest which provided the wood to move the moai or statues also fed their people and built their boats to reach the large fish offshore.
The tribes fell into warfare and even cannibalism until only a remnant remained when white men arrived

We are on the same path as the Islanders.


9 posted on 03/29/2023 7:22:54 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

According to the “experts” Britain was supposed to already be under water:

ei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions


10 posted on 03/29/2023 7:24:39 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

11 posted on 03/29/2023 8:48:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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