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Flooded Britain: Time for a few tips on erratic climate change
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| The Economic Times , Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
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| As a nation famously obsessed with weather, it is oddly befitting that Britain is weathering one climate extreme after another for the last few years. If it isn't a whiteout, it's a washout, blowout or burnout. It seems its denizens are doomed to be denied their usual dreary, drizzly, undramatic British weather in the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, the UK has not evolved more natural weather vanes, unlike its former trans-Atlantic colonies. At least Americans and Canadians can always blame the Arctic vortex on Punxsutawney PhilBSE -4.76 %, Shubenacadie Sam, Wiarton Willie and other weather-wary groundhogs possibly emerging before their annual appointment date of February 2 and scrambling back into their cubbyholes leaving North America to face six more weeks of winter as decreed by lore.
With Britain currently suffering the worst floods in nearly three centuries and the inevitable prospect of more weather-related uncertainty to follow, it should consider adopting the practice of early warning animal oracles, particularly in the most susceptible regions. Indeed, as nature usually has a way of informing at least the non-human occupants of this planet about impending weather disturbances if not their magnitude, even India should scout, identify and engage likely faunal forecasters.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/editorial/flooded-britain-time-for-a-few-tips-on-erratic-climate-change/articleshow/30299973.cms |
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