12 h. ago Ella Baron on Hurricane Melissa and Trump’s climate denial – cartoon

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13 h. ago Hurricane Melissa shows need for climate action at Cop30 summit, Cabinet hears

Jamaica’s government ordered evacuations from high risk areas and shut down the country’s airports as the Category 5 storm approached on Tuesday.

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20 h. ago How global warming has intensified Hurricane Melissa: An expert explains

Increasingly warm oceans resulting from global warming are a key reason for Hurricane Melissa's wind speed doubling in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists have said.

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41 h. ago As the Atlantic ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa's ferocity

Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change

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7 d. ago Covid inquiry live: Boris Johnson questioned over impact of pandemic on children

The former prime minister is appearing at the UK’s Covid-19 inquiryClair Dobbin KC is questioning the former prime minister. She is counsel to the Covid Inquiry. She leads its work in Northern Ireland and, separately, its work in relation to children.She has opened by asking about Gavin Williamson’s evidence which suggested there had been very little preparation for the closure of schools. She says his evidence was that “he didn’t seek assessment of the impact of school closures, and nor did he seek to develop planning for mass school closures because, and these were the words he used in his oral evidence, the steer I was hearing – whether it was in cabinet or anything else – was to keep things open, not about closing things.” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Perhaps only civil servants and I believe it, but 'networking' is the stuff life is made of | Viv Groskop

The Cabinet Office wants to ban ‘networking meetings’ in working hours. Call me an interfering Sir Humphrey, but isn’t actually talking to colleagues the way to get things done?In these broken times, it’s not easy to spare a thought for the plight of the humble civil servant. But bear with me and open your heart. Last week, it emerged that the Cabinet Office has brought in new rules for civil servants about the types of meetings they can hold. Anything that constitutes a “networking meeting” now has to be held outside working hours. And if it’s a networking “event”, it has to be signed off by a senior civil servant.Alex Thomas, a programme director at the Institute for Government, said the new rules were “reasonably proportionate as most meetings take place after work or in lunchtimes anyway”, and that “reminding civil servants that they are primarily there to do their core jobs is not a bad thing”.Viv Groskop is a comedian and author of How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Bri...

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