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According to climate scientists at Oxford University, heavy storms, such as the one that caused devastating flooding in the South of England in the winter of 2013/2014, are heavily facilitated by climate change. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increase the risk of extreme floods by more than 40 per cent, the researchers found. As temperatures keep […]
Continue ReadingAn Oxfordshire Councillor has claimed that the recent flooding and bad weather is a direct result of Parliament’s decision to legalise gay marriage last year. UKIP councillor David Silvester, 73, revealed in a letter to a local newspaper that he had written to Prime Minister David Cameron last year to “warn him” of the “storms, […]
Continue ReadingFlooded students are feeling abandoned by the council after claims they were refusing to distribute sandbags unless lives were in “lethal danger”. The flooding was so severe that council workers operating a pumping system near Abingdon Road stopped the system for just half an hour and caused over 200 houses to go onto “red alert”. Mehrunissa Sajjad, a third year at Merton who was staying at […]
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