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Study looks at impact of the weather



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THE impact of climate change in Edinburgh will be studied as part of a project to ready the city for extreme weather.
The city council will use media reports and individual experiences to form a picture of the real effects of changes to the weather on the community.

The research will also look at changing needs for information about weather and climate. The project will be supported by an environmental adviser who will work with council staff to produce recommendations. The council aims to create a carbon-neutral Edinburgh by 2050.

Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change, said: "Climate change is not an issue any government can address alone.

"If we are going to achieve our national target of an 80 per cent reduction in emissions by 2050 we all need to accept personal responsibility and take local action."





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  • Last Updated: 18 February 2008 10:58 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Climate change , Environment
 
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G_C,

Edinburgh 29/02/2008 10:13:33
I'm not a climate change denier, because all the mainstream scientific evidence shows it is happening, but when I see things like this, climate-scepticism looks like it would be such fun.
Obviously all the hard sciency stuff is just to hard for someone, with graphs, statistics, complicated models all described using long words and with all the caveats that back serious scientific work. Instead we'll have to rely on media reports (always accurate?) and individuals (presumably some bloke who says his daffodils flower earlier than they did 30 years ago).


 

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