Category: Climate Change
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Shifting Shores
Today’s Guardian has an article on how the National Trust’s decision not to fix sea defences at Cwm Ivy on the North Gower in south Wales has created a salt marsh rich in flora and fauna. It was an un-managed retreat initially, a hole in the sea defences was created by Atlantic storms in 2013,…
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Managed Retreat #2
After a few false starts, reconsiderations and revaluations since the first issue, work has commenced on issue 2 of Managed Retreat. The image above is part of the prototyping phase for the cover. The pink shape is the outline of the Dengie peninsula after
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Back to the Strandline
This week Essex Live brought back the Climate Central Flood Map story that featured in the last post. This time around the story, and its associated maps, were accompanied by some welcome discussion of the implications and possible mitigation from Drs Natalie Hicks and Tom Cameron of the University of Essex’s School of Life Sciences.…
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Vulnerable to Flooding
Lots of the local ecologically concerned folk are sharing this news story based on the Climate Central flood map update using the CoastalDEM® v1.1 digital elevation model. I’m not immune to doing so myself. Combined with the recent devastating floods in the north of England these projections seem to offer a warning from the future…
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The Hour is Getting Late
The time we have left to avoid climate disaster is getting short and the sun is setting on the opportunity to avoid catastrophe. Not that you would know it from the political inactivity around here.
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High (Tide) and Dry
It’s now ten days since I wrote to my District Councillors (Peter Elliott and Ron Pratt) asking why Maldon District Council has no current Environment and Climate Change Strategy despite the Climate Emergency and I’m still waiting for a reply. I recognise that they may be busy, that it’s not a salaried role and their…
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Climate Emergency
On 8th December I posted on social media about trying to find a point of agency in the face of the wicked problem of climate change – partly re-energised by the Extinction Rebellion actions: ‘I’ve never been a member of a political party, I’ve always been against it on the basis that joining a political…
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