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Tue 01 Jan 2007Floods show global warming - GreensSevere flooding in the west of Ireland in recent days clearly shows the early effects of global warning on the climate, the city's mayor, a Green Party councillor, has said."The flooding in Salthill on New Year's Eve that caused many cars to be abandoned, the lack of frost that has led to snowdrops and crocuses coming up in peoples gardens on Christmas day and the publishing of a report in the Martin Ryan Institute in NUI Galway on the discovery of warm water plankton off the Irish coast are all clear evidence of the effects on our climate of global warming," said Niall Ó Brolcháin.