Heavy flooding in Scotland ahead of COP26

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have caused heavy flooding in northern England and northern Scotland on the eve of the COP26.

The train connection between London and Glasgow was suspended for several hours, while

in Dumfries and Hawick and the flooding of the Annan River caused the collapse of two bridges.

The inclement weather has caused an added disruption to the summit that will bring together more than 120 world leaders and 30,000 delegates from 200 countries over the next two weeks, with the goal of "keeping within reach" a maximum increase in temperatures of 1, 5 degrees.

From Rome, on his way through the G20 summit, "Premier"

urged world leaders to raise their national commitments to COP26.

"If we do not act now it will be too late," he warned.

"We are in the middle of the game and we are losing 5-1 (...) When things start to go wrong, it can happen very quickly, as happened with the fall of the Roman Empire."

Johnson reiterated his call on Saturday, warning that a failure of the Glasgow summit could provoke "very difficult geopolitical events", such as

and food production.

The "premier" could not hide his frustration after the telephone conversation with Chinese President

, the great absentee from the Glasgow summit.

Johnson acknowledged pressuring the leader of the world's largest CO2 emitter to advance its targets with a "peak" of emissions in 2025 and not in 2030.

Although China has pledged to

abroad, dozens of new thermal power plants are expected to join the energy mix in the coming years.

"I've been very 'evangelical' about the potential to leave coal behind," recalled Johnson.

"When I visited Beijing as Mayor of London in 2008, coal contributed 40% to our energy, now it is 1%."

London and the south of England

have not escaped the wave of rainfall in the British Isles, as a severe warning of what is at stake at COP26, with several locations affected around Glasgow and the disruption of transport that is making it difficult for delegates to arrive.

"The heavy rains and flooding that we are seeing in Cumbria and South West Scotland is something that is becoming more and more common," warns Hayley Fowler, a professor specializing in the impacts of climate change at the University of Newcastle.

"A warmer atmosphere can

and lead to more intense storms that produce more rain," Fowler added.

"We already saw it this summer with the floods in Germany and the summer rains up to 19% more intense."

The five wettest months in the UK since 1862 have been in the last eleven years.

Rainfall has increased an average of 6% in the last three decades and in 2020 the record of 170 days was broken for more than one liter of water per square meter.

As measured by Professor Hayler Fowler, this week's torrential rains at Honister Pass in the Lake District may have set a new national record with 365 millimeters of water in 24 hours.

Dozens of towns in northern England and southern Scotland remain

on red alert over the weekend due to the risk of flooding.

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