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So the 2030 decarbonisation target didn't pass - what now? | Carbon Brief

despite an energetic campaign in favour, the government opposed the measure and it was voted down by 290 to 267.

Central Europe floods portend a wet future - environment - 04 June 2013 - New Scientist

While it is premature to pin the heavy rainfall on climate change, it could be partly to blame, says Stéphane Isoard of the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark. But he says bad land management is just as important. "We build over the land and there is urban sprawl, so there is less opportunity for water to infiltrate the soil." With more floods inevitable because of the wetter weather predicted by climate change  [so if the weather gets wetter, will that mean fewer droughts?], Isoard says Europe needs to adapt to a new world of frequent inundation.

BBC News - Energy policy: Government sees off rebellion over 2030 carbon target

Mr Yeo told the Commons that a target would not add a "single penny" to energy bills for the next seven years

Some thoughts on cooler weather patterns in relation to tornadoes and hurricanes | Watts Up With That?

More generally, a cooling earth is a drier earth because the winds pick up less water vapor from the cooler oceans. In the USA the cool waters off the West Coast (Fig3) will lead to more generalized droughts in the Center, West and SW and when combined with more frequent late and early frosts and snows food crop production will be threatened. What rains do come will paradoxically come from storms leading to flash flooding further restricting food production. In California itself the south will be dryer with more forest fires while in the North more of the rains will come as snow so that increasing snow pack will ameliorate the overall dryer conditions.

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