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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
Stop The Floods Dredge The Somerset Levels – Jan 2014
Stop The Floods Dredge The Somerset Levels is a facebook page which does what it says on the tin. More tails of EA/DEFRA inertia and incompetence. There is a link to an epetition which I’ve reproduced here. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/45055
Murray Salby Showed CO2 Follows Temperature Now You Can Too
In 2011 Professor Murray Salby showed CO2 follows temperature and not as is usually claimed rising CO2 causing rising temperatures. However he did not show his method or reveal his data sources. In this post I reproduce some of his … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coastal Squeeze, DEFRA, EA, Sea Level, SMP, Temperature
Tagged climate change, CO2, DEFRA, EA, environment agency, global temperature rise, global warming, green house gas, ipcc, managed realignment, managed retreat, met office, sea level rise, uk weather may 2012
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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 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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Clacton And Holland Beaches – May 2013
Following Clacton and Holland Beach Hut Association meeting on 4 May 2013 Trevor Bright sent some questions to June Clare of TDC. Here are the questions and answers. But first a note about the meeting. Douglas Carswell (local mp) Peter … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, Breakwaters, Climate Change, DEFRA, EA, Groynes, SMP
Tagged breakwaters, clacton beach, DEFRA, environment agency, groynes, holland haven beach, holland-on-sea beach, holland-on-sea sea wall, managed realignment, sea wall between frinton and holland, tendring district council
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Maintenance of Uneconomic Sea Flood Defences: A Way Forward
On 1 April 2004 Sarah Nason, sometime head of flood management at DEFRA, issued a letter and paper with the title Maintenance of Uneconomic Sea Flood Defences: A Way Forward. Basically the way forward was not to maintain the flood … Continue reading
Posted in DEFRA, EA, SMP
Tagged DEFRA, EA, environment agency, Essex, managed realignment, managed retreat, Sea Flood Defences, Tendring, tendring district council, uneconomic sea defences
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Holland-on-Sea and Tendring Beaches 19 October 2012
Here Holland-on-Sea and Tendring Beaches September 2012 I posted about what had been happening over the summer since July when Mike Badger wrote to beach hut owners at Holland Haven to say steps were going to be removed as the … Continue reading
