On May 16, 3:01*pm, Steve J wrote:
I am preparing a series of lessons on the supposed increase in flood
frequency and intensity in the UK as a result of climate change.

Trendy geography this, even if I am unconvinced about its efficacy.

Does any one amongst the iluuminaries of the esteemed members of this
newsgroup have any links to articles and papers that may help me
stimulate and educate the *eager students at Bablake please?

Steve J

I am not sure if using Google makes me an luminary or esteemed but if
you go to:
http://www.google.co.uk/
Click on "Pages from the UK" then enter
uk climate change flooding
you will get quite a few interesting pages including at least one
mentioned by Martin.
But I suspect your students would have told you that anyway :-)

If you repeat that procedure at
http://uk.altavista.com/
you will get some more including this one from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/impact/flooding.shtml
which is possibly is at a level most suitable for your pupils.

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/
also produces similar results including this one:

It's too late. Climate change floods are inevitable - no matter what
we do
Cost of erosion, rising rivers and polluted drains could hit £20bn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/ap...ce.environment

which is over five years old!

Perhaps I am teaching my granny to suck eggs because I thought all
teachers were now aware that their pupils go to Wikipedia and use that
text in their assignments. If you add wikipedia to the search string
you get this web page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood
which has a link to ^ Cabinet Office, UK. "Pitt Review: Lessons
learned from the 2007 floods." June 2008. at:
http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/...ittreview.html
which may be more like what you are looking for.

Anyway, I dislike students posting questions on newsgroups in order to
get the answer to their homework. So promise not to use any of this
in your lessons :-)

Cheers, Alastair.
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