Tag: Climate Change

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Where You At Q5: When was the last time a fire burned in your area?

    The fifth question in the Where You At? bioregional quiz is: When was the last time a fire burned in your area? This is one of the quiz questions that reveals its Cascadian/West Coast USA origins. As Carolyn Merchant has noted in Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (1992) the quiz is ‘culture-bound’. I write that because the…

  • Where You At Q4: What was the total rainfall in your area last year?

    The fourth question in the Where You At? bioregional quiz is: What was the total rainfall in your area last year? I think that annual average rainfall in Essex is about 600mm, but I don’t know how recent years have compared to that. The nearest Met Office ‘climate stations’ to me are at Writtle (c.29km away)…

  • Where You At Q2: How many days til the moon is full?

        The second question in the Where You At? bioregional quiz is: How many days til the moon is full? I’m not sure how good I would be at this calculation generally. I can’t remember seeing the moon lately but then I can’t remember looking at the night sky recently either. Today, Wednesday 11th April 2018, I’m pretty…

  • Greenhouse Britain

      The next report from the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due late in 2019. The lag time between data gathering and data publication, plus the need for an agreed consensus amidst the contributors have conspired in previous editions to present overly optimistic scenarios, it’s now widely recognised that they’ve routinely underestimated the rate of…