[DurhamDivest] Government 'tried to bury' its own alarming report on climate change

[Susan Wesley]

Hi Everyone

Some interesting climate change news we all should know about. This 
makes divestment from fossil fuels so important.


  Government 'tried to bury' its own alarming report on climate change

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-risk-assessment-global-warming-government-accused-burying-report-a7540726.html

"The Government has been accused of trying to bury a major report about 
the potential dangers of global warming to Britain – including the 
doubling of the deaths during heatwaves, a “significant risk” to 
supplies of food and the prospect of infrastructure damage from flooding.

The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Report, which by law has to be 
produced every five years, was published with little fanfare on the 
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) website on 
18 January.

But, despite its undoubted importance, Environment Secretary Andrea 
Leadsom made no speech and did not issue her own statement, and even the 
Defra Twitter account was silent. No mainstream media organisation 
covered the report."

Many thanks

Susan

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