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Flash flooding mob puts oar in on climate change

by The Daily Eye Team February 12 2014, 11:14 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 32 secs

Rush hour cars were replaced by rowing boats in Oxford’s flooded Abingdon Road yesterday, as people staged a flotilla to demand a discussion about climate change.

The flash flooding mob that congregated outside the Duke of Monmouth pub had been organised by resident Jamie Clarke, who is also executive director of the Cowley-based climate change organisation Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN).

Mr Clarke, 38, who lives on a narrowboat in Weirs Lane, explained: “The gathering is simply local people simply asking: “Why, when flooding is all over the news, isn’t the issue of climate change too?”

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