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Thanks to Godfrey Bartlett EssexWalks.com
Godfrey sent me this email Hi, Just a note to say I find your analysis of temperature and sea level records fascinating. As much as I love nature reserves for leisure purposes, I’m getting an increasing sense that the big … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, CO2, Coastal Squeeze, EA, SMP
Tagged CO2, coastal squeeze, DEFRA, EA, environment agency, flood, global temperature rise, global warming, sea defences, sea level rise, wivenhoe
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Flooding Is EU And UK Government Policy – Feb 2014
Environment Agency has been much criticised over floods in southwest recently but they are simply implementing EU and UK government policy. This publication from John Gummer’s (aka Lord Deben) Climate Change Committee www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ASC-2013-Chap5_singles_2.pdf makes it explicit this is government policy, … Continue reading
Information Tribunal ICO EA and me – 3 Feb 2014
Appeal to Information Tribunal – continuing the story told in Environment Agency And Me – Jan 2014 and Environment Agency Information Comissioner and Me – Jan 2014 Contacting Information Tribunal The Information Tribunal is more properly First Tier Tribunal General … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coastal Squeeze, EA, Sea Level, SMP
Tagged coastal squeeze, EA, environment agency, ico, information commisioner, information tribunal, saltmarsh, sea level rise
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Tidal Surge And Sea Wall Near Hill House Farm Shotley – Jan 2014
The sea wall near Hill House Farm, Shotley has been damaged, presumably as a result of tidal surge. 6 weeks on why has EA not started repairs? Here is a picture take from near southern end of the sea wall … Continue reading
Were Early Saltmarsh Surveys Wrong? – Jan 2014
DEFRA targetted EA with recreating 100 ha/year saltmarsh by flooding farmland following saltmarsh surveys. Were surveys wrong? Around 1973 there was a plan to build an airport on Maplin Sands off south Essex. The airport was never built but there … Continue reading
Environment Agency And Me – Jan 2014
I was largely unaware of Environment Agency till 2009, then they tried to knock a hole in sea wall about 1/2 mile from my house. I live in Kirby-le-Soken in Essex near the section of sea wall labelled B4a in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, DEFRA, Devereux Farm, EA, Kirby-le-Soken, Local, NE, Salt Marsh Erosion, Sea Level, SMP, Temperature
Tagged climate change, coastal squeeze, DEFRA, EA, environment agency, global warming, kirby-le-soken, managed realignment, managed retreat, natural england, sea defences, sea level rise, smp, tdc, tendring district council
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Reason 2 EA’s Policy of Saltmash Habitat Creation Is Fatally Flawed – Jan 2014
DEFRA have targeted EA with recreating saltmarsh by flooding farmland. Here is reason #2 why this policy is fatally flawed. There is mud in the sea around East Anglia, that’s why the sea is murky unlike in Cornwall or Mediterranean. … Continue reading
Reason 1 EA’s Policy of Saltmash Habitat Creation Is Fatally Flawed – Jan 2014
DEFRA have targeted EA with recreating saltmarsh by flooding farmland. Here is reason #1 why this policy is fatally flawed. DEFRA EA and NE claim rising sea levels are killing saltmarsh. DEFRA EA and NE claim the rate of sea … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, DEFRA, EA, Salt Marsh Erosion, Sea Level, SMP
Tagged coastal squeeze, DEFRA, EA, environment agency, habitat, managed realignment, managed retreat, saltmarsh
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One Place Where Salt Marsh Erosion Is Not Caused By Coastal Squeeze – Dec 2013
Coastal squeeze is an idea made up to explain how rising sea levels cause salt marsh erosion. The need to recreate salt marsh, allegedly lost by coastal squeeze, is behind EA’s unwillingness to maintain sea defences. Quay Lane Kirby-le-Soken At … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coastal Squeeze, EA, Kirby-le-Soken, Local, SMP
Tagged coastal squeeze, EA, environment agency, natural england, quay-lane, sea level rise
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December 2013 Tidal Surge in Kirby-le-Soken and Tendring
A tidal surge visited Kirby-le-Soken and Tendring around 2am on Friday 6 December 2013. By 8am it had gone, leaving traces of its visit. It had been dry the preceding days, looking north down quay lane about 50 yards from … Continue reading
