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

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Jeremy

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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Do You Need Breakwaters For Sandy Beaches?

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Jeremy

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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Are DEFRA Predicitions of Sea Level Rise Wrong?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Jeremy

In an earlier post, Are Sea Levels Rising – You Can Check Using Simple Arithmetic, I compared the observations of sea levels at Felixstowe with the DEFRA 2006 predictions. The trend at Felixstowe is falling, so here are the graphs … Continue reading →

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Prediction Using Fitted Functions Can Be Very Wrong

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Jeremy

I have made several posts about sea levels and salt marsh in Kirby le Soken. This post was prompted when I read a report about an earlier attempt to recreate salt marsh by breaching a sea wall at Tollesbury (google … Continue reading →

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Eric Schmidt and Labels

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Jeremy

In his MacTaggart lecture Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, criticised UK education and the tendency to split into two camps luvvies and boffins. This neatly follows on from my last post (jeremyshiers.com/blog/who-are-the-scientists) where I talked about human beings habit … Continue reading →

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What Is Saltmarsh?

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Jeremy

The Environment Agency want to flood part of Devereux Farm in Kirby le Soken as they say rising sea levels are causing ‘coastal squeeze’ which is killing saltmarsh. So what is saltmarsh? At low tide it looks like this And … Continue reading →

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Making Waves At Devereux Farm

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Jeremy

News of the campaign has been spreading out, largely due to the protest walk. Last week Richard Steward from the Blythe Estuary Group heard about us and rang TDC to ask for someone who he could contact. For whatever reason … Continue reading →

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