Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1295985 Comments:2390
The heatwaves seen in Europe during 2003, which killed tens of thousands of people, will come back every year with a 2C global average temperature rise. Southern England will regularly see temperatures around 40C in summer. The Amazon turns into desert and grasslands, while increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere make the world's oceans too acidic for remaining coral reefs and thousands of other marine lifeforms. More than 60 million people, mainly in Africa, would be exposed to higher rates of malaria.
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Strike leader George Sifonios with fellow workers at the gates of the Elliniki Halyvourgia steelworks, which was shut down after they refused to accept a 40% pay cut. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Guardian
It's hot, pushing 40C, so the men are mostly hugging the deep pools of shade that are now all that's offered them by the factory where they used to work. They're sitting on cheap plastic garden chairs, drinking iced water and coffee and playing backgammon.
Britain braced for hottest day of the year
Temperatures in London and south-east expected to reach high of 29C and sunshine to continue into the weekend
* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 May 2012 06.03 EDT
And then, after the Drought.....
# Flooding hits northern England after torrential rain
BBC News - 4 days ago Large parts of northern England are flooded, with up to 500 properties affected, after a month's worth of rain fell in a day, the Environment ...
