Evening Standard

OPINION - Prepare for the great floods of London if we don't wake up to climate change

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Londoners aren’t used to wild weather — it reaches us in pieces, through gaps in buildings. So when thunder rolled around central London on Tuesday, we sat in silence, listening. Several of us went to the soaked window of the London Library to watch the wind bothering the trees in the square. All around we could see smudges of people at other windows, doing the same.

Of course we can’t cope with it. Within six hours four. More , no doubt, will come.

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