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Top government advisor warns of "four Katrinas in one year"

 
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Wednesday 4 February 2009 at 15:52:00 Jonathan Porritt urges businesses to prepare for catastrophic "climate induced shocks" on the scale of four Hurricane Katrinas in one year Jonathan Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commission and one of the government's top environmental advisors, has today warned we are entering an era of catastrophic climate shocks in which... (link)

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