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...Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus Climate Service, said a record number of Europeans had been affected by heat stress and the continent’s largest wildfire last year....
...But Burgess said that the jumps in daily temperatures were even higher than those anticipated by climate models....
...“Temperatures during 2023 likely exceed those of any period in at least the last 100,000 years,” Burgess said. A breach of the long-term 1.5C limit is increasingly likely, she added....
...Samantha Burgess, deputy C3S director, called for swift action to tackle rising global temperatures....
...Burgess added that with two months to go until countries meet in Dubai at the UN COP28 climate summit, “the sense of urgency for ambitious climate action has never been more critical”....
...The “exceptional” October followed four months of global temperature records being “obliterated”, said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus....
...A bigger pity is the presumption, belied by movies such as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, that provoking an audience to reflect on history’s big questions must necessarily be a drag on entertainment....
...The scenario, devised by the story’s creator Steven Knight, is part-prequel, part-mash-up, focusing on our anti-hero’s love affair with Grace Burgess and his despair at her murder....
...Steven Burgess sees something different. Spotting clumps of juniper along the edge of a multimillion dollar property, he calls out the combustible shrub’s local nickname: “green gasoline!”...
...gases and global temperatures continue to rise, particularly Arctic temperatures, highlighting that we need to strengthen our efforts to reduce emissions to meet the Paris Agreement targets,” said Samantha Burgess...
...J ohn Lewis: cat.rutterpooley@ft.com Kate.burgess@ft.com...
...The departures this year of Michelle Scrimgeour and Mark Burgess, the CEO and CIO for Europe respectively, has added to the difficulties confronting the company....
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...How he did that is examined in Matthew Burgess’s Reed Hastings: Building Netflix (Weidenfeld & Nicolson RRP£12.99, March)....
...The charming, blond, dishevelled Etonian sybarite Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross also emerged from an intimate, all-male, public-school network....
...Today’s Small Talk column by Kate Burgess focuses on litigation funding companies: Litigation funding divides opinion....
...matthew.vincent@ft.com Persimmon: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...matthew.vincent@ft.com Eve: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...Today’s Small Talk column by Kate Burgess focuses on problems at drinks group Conviviality: The graphic on page 16 of Conviviality’s annual report says everything about the ambitions of Diana Hunter who...
...Kate Burgess and Matthew Vincent imagine the encounter. JL: Rupert, is that you? RS: Yes, how may I help, old chap? JL: Well, you could put some pyjamas on for a start....
...A Sunday Telegraph article contained a comment by Anne Stevens, chief executive, that "she's convinced investors will back [GKN]."...
...Dec (or Ant): So, first up it’s Jos Sclater and Anne Stevens of GKN, aka ‘Sonny & Her,’ with You’ve Only Got Us, Babes....
...Had Steven Runciman not actually lived, someone, perhaps Evelyn Waugh, would have invented him....
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