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Charles Beardall Of EA Says Devereux Farm Part 2 Will Not Proceed For Now

The title says it all. Cllr Bucke                                                                   14 November 2011 Kirby Le Soken Dear Cllr Bucke I am extremely grateful for the time you have spent recently with both me, at our meeting in September and with Sharon to explore … Continue reading

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YouTube – Crabs And Ragworm Eroding Salt Marsh In East Anglia

Here is a YouTube video featuring Dr Rob Hughes  – salt marsh ecologist from  Queen Mary, University of London Richard Steward Robert Simper showing how salt marsh is being eroded by crabs and/or ragworm. Pictures in an earlier post clearly … Continue reading

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How Much Climate Change In Lerwick Since 1890

In an earlier post I showed this graph from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Group (BEST). The temperatures stop at around 2000. By eye we can see that between 1890 and 2000 there was a temperature rise of a bit … Continue reading

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Trainee Teachers Can’t Count

The Daily Mail has a report today saying that one fifth of trainee teachers can not spell or do sums. One apparently took 37 resits before passing a maths test. Presumably the point of the article is to create a … Continue reading

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The Cost Of Not Maintaining The Breakwaters At Holland-On-Sea

On 27 February 2011 Matt Cooper made a FOI request to Tendring District Council asking The total money invested into coastal defenses in the past 10 years The major coastal defense schemes initiated in the past 10 years You can … Continue reading

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Some Details That Most Commentators On Euro Zone Bailout Don’t Mention

This post is based on comments from John Ward’s The Slog Louise Cooper, of BGC partners and rising TV star, speaking on BBC Daily Politics who have both pointed out that there are problems with the proposed Euro Zone Bailout … Continue reading

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Media Reports Claim BEST Group Find Climate Change Is Real

The Guardian and the Economist are among the media reporting on a press release from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Group (BEST) lead by Professor Richard Muller. They report results of BEST’s analysis of temperature records which show the world … Continue reading

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Holland-On-Sea Beach Then And Now

After posting photographs of the beach on Holland-On-Sea I have been sent some photographs from a few decades ago. At Holland Haven looking south.  It is clear that the level of sand is much lower, at a guess may be … Continue reading

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A Very Bad Way To Calculate Sea Level Rise

I have been intrigued by these graphs of sea level rise which the UK Environment Agency (EA) used to display on this page of their website, although the page was removed some time around 13 October 2011. http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/cy/ymchwil/llyfrgell/data/34449.aspx It was … Continue reading

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Do You Need Breakwaters For Sandy Beaches?

I live in Kirby le Soken which is by Hamford Water where there is mud and salt marsh. I have written about salt marsh and mud, so for a change this post will be about sandy beaches. View Larger Map … Continue reading

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