We must face up to the flooding, not flee to the sun

The turbulent weather we've seen is a warning of what lies ahead for us. Only a new politics can address climate change

Jackie Ashley
Monday July 23, 2007
The Guardian

For once, it's OK to talk about the weather. That traditional subject for polite and humdrum conversation has become interesting. Coming just a month after parts of Yorkshire almost disappeared under the floodwaters, the spectacle of rescue boats and helicopters at work across the Midlands has been gripping, if scarcely believable. Is this really Britain? In July? Tens of thousands of motorists have been stranded, thousands evacuated from their homes, and the cost of the damage done so far stretches into millions of pounds.

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