Cumbria’s floods display what climate change looks like for the whole country – and yet the prime minister has overseen underinvestment in flood defencesRecord rain,flooded homes, evacuations, and power cuts,Red Cross centres, mobilised soldiers and emergency Cobra committee meetings: this is what climate change looks like for the UK. Flooding is the nations number one threat from global warming: five million homes are already at risk, or the number is rising as temperature rises.
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Source: theguardian.com