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ink we hwledge that t embers othepublic are qs theiruerstdi of climatange te th i an hink so o hese fferent stas olfirst ose o ae simply gnor heis ey jusd'know out it fortunatei know w don'ave anyone ere n tegory listbause ae is tinesng a ew othem te a but dkowom heir v arcnvced cae lgora h mssr. hoare the flkwho say, i vofor h o hes t e s hiiendi t kn at d o t e
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i's happening. f un te ay a, don't lo in the sence i tion sti ofhe y. theyelg ov i he hst io 's happeniher thse alifornia clite icts evel ncreas of between inches and 3 feet, 1 ter, y 100. now, since he bay has risen 7 ches in the ast century, nd ount of green house gasseseing mitted re ntinuing, it's hard f me o unders how we could only have a 3-inch rise in the n hundrears. but ifyou waner ask leslie lko. se nderss vele f ittuthasea ri is cert 3f
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>> i'ke ty mrning to everybo. i's t prilege to* for e here ointbaery ng o dys a orasel keo satha ou e te ganize r in o i'm authai'd 's been goinhe uk and also for me to share wat' been going on here aswl. i talkg about what we've been doing in thuk i relation to aaption stragi f flooding and coastadefens i wa ttal through a ew of the srategic projects 've been undertaking, one othem for e uk inaudie) climate
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floodingnd osight prec whis e uk governmen project clime change, fldi ad c. governntuidance nte on anning, talking aut mg acfor water urban sign, the constrti inst in theuk'dig guidan fr anagi extreme en or maging exceedence anfille govement's policy uidance i the ukon ingratedapprches to rba drainage now, the picture onma change is all too fmiar. this is graph o rojected global wming nd emperatu se and its efcts nortest euro anparticulay the uk. it'a vy milar picture to the one you have her it pdicts however you account r e uncerinty, a very signifant riin temperature ov the nt 50 to00yrs. as a relt f that verage
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temperaturrise of t least 3 degrees centigrades hat w e oing to se arr, wer winters,rier, hott umm a sea leveisinexcs o 800 mlimete, probab 50 millimeter ithe southeast of englan but hidden nderneathth are perhs mormporta messages. th temperature re wlead tomuch srmier eather o wh we get rainfa we're kely to see particularly and inrestingly i he summer months mucmore intense rainfall it uture tan w see today ann op o any sea leverise, s ill mentioned, e. how wile adapt our urb
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areato adealwithhi at tpresent te we have mething inexss of 0,00 propties at immedie rk fromloinwiin urb areain he uk thannual damage costat he mome is sothg li 70 llion ous. th's about $0 ilon per num,and the annu cost o flood mitigati s n t ordeo 3 milln ounds. th'a sum f mey that's alreadinvested in ood precon worinthe uk. hen w look at theacof ate an and pticula thfectn he sort of storm even that eads to flooding i rban aasnd indeed, in rur areas as wl, we e oong n heuk at sothing tarou 0 peenicrsen all intensity. anwhen we model that fft
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on o urn draine yste on our rivean, w s that thatillad to sothing nderstandable o e order o4 pcent increase in the owthose aigestems t ecause thoseraina capacity, at has a g diroportnate effect on the amountf looding a he amount of dagth mit ocr. we expt t s 100 pernt increase in foolun e surface, dbling thflood vo. 0 pd ura future might look like.
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