It was exactly sixty years ago, in 1953, following the great North Sea Surge when the East Anglian dune defence system was broken through and three hundred people drowned. The government of the day resolved ‘never again’ and promptly set to work installing defences. But they had said the same thing following the 1938 Horsey […]
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- Latest Study on the North Atlantic Conveyor/Gulf Stream
- IMO states that “ocean fertilisation” is illegal
- Climate Change Marine Impact
- Memories of the 1953 North Sea Surge
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- Smallest recorded extent of summer Arctic sea ice confirmed
- New ‘Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership’ document
- Our warming sea
- Loss of Arctic Sea Ice now more than 70%
In a polar paradox, melting land ice helps sea ice to grow. Ocean warming may be a major driver of sea-ice expansion in the Antarctic, researchers report today in Nature Geoscience. While sea ice at the North Pole has shrunk substantially over the past three decades, scientists have struggled to explain why sea ice near […]
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Reuters News Agency reports, 7th April 2013 : Climate change could get worse quickly if huge amounts of extra heat absorbed by the oceans are released back into the air, scientists said after unveiling new research showing that oceans have helped mitigate the effects of warming since 2000. Heat-trapping gases are being emitted into the […]
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From Esha, aged 15 Geography has always been my favourite subject at school. Volcanoes, globalisation, development, you name it. It has inspired me to realise that not only is the earth a beautiful place, but one that is in desperate need of our help. Now the Government wants to remove the study of climate change […]
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Ships should be able to sail directly over the North Pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists. The dramatic reduction in the thickness and extent of late summer sea ice that has […]
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Prof. Callum Roberts writes in The Observer, 10th February 2013: “The oceans are changing faster today and in more ways than at any time in human history. We are the cause. Which is why I welcome the launch of the Global Ocean Commission, dedicated to ending the neglect, in international affairs, of the high seas. […]
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An environmental catastrophe with greater economic impact than the global financial crash is occurring on the high seas, according to David Miliband. The former foreign secretary is to lead a new, high-level international effort to end the lawlessness of the oceans, which will be unveiled this week. The high seas, which lie beyond any national […]
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Using data provided by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with further information from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Global Carbon Project has just published the highlights of the Global Carbon Budget, dealing with all the main CO2 emission sources, their rise and the pathways to atmosphere. It may be read from here […]
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A comprehensive report on the horrors of Global Warming including its impact upon the marine system has just been produced for the World Bank by Climate Analytics. It is entitled Turn down the heat — why a 4 Degree warmer world must be avoided. It is a very large and thorough 84 page report taking […]
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A very disturbing 20 minute video on the decline and probable demise of the North Atlantic Conveyor a.k.a. Gulf Stream due to changes in the Thermohaline Circulation (THC) has just been made by the Thor Project. It points to the possibility/probability that Northern Europe may soon become uninhabitable due to Spring/Summer droughts and bitterly cold […]
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IMO International Maritime Organisation Parties to the international treaties which regulate the dumping of wastes and other matter at sea have issued a statement of concern regarding the deliberate ocean fertilization activity that was recently reported to have been carried out in July of 2012 in waters off the west coast of Canada. The Contracting […]
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The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) new website content at www.mccip.org.uk gives much interesting evidence on how climate change is affecting our coast and seas, the marine ecosystem, sea level rise and ocean acidification.
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An Anglia TV film recalling the great North Sea Surge of January 1953 can be seen by visiting the East Anglian Film Archive. Pictures of the damage and interviews with those recalling the event bring to our attention that such devastation could soon come again, perhaps even this winter. The cuts in the sea defence […]
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One of the world’s leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years. In what he calls a “global disaster” now unfolding in northern latitudes as the sea area that freezes and melts each year shrinks to its lowest extent ever recorded, Prof Peter Wadhams of […]
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Sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its smallest extent ever recorded, smashing the previous record minimum and prompting warnings of accelerated climate change. An iceberg melts, drips water in Kulusuk Bay, eastern Greenland Arctic sea ice cover has been shrinking since the 1970s when it averaged around 8m sq km a year, but […]
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Paul Buckley of the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) and Secretariat of CEFAS, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0HT, UK, has sent us news of a new document for the Climate Smart Working programme that draws together examples of adaptation to Climate Change, ranging from the global to local scale, intended to help share […]
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BBC radio 4’s excellent ‘Costing the Earth’ ran a 30-minute programme based on the impact that rising sea temperatures will have and what species we are likely to both gain and lose around our coast. Already we are witnessing a change of planktonplankton Plankton is a generic term for a wide variety of the smallest […]
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Paul Buckley via the Marine Climate Change Impact Partnership newsletter, passes on the content of a new study that shows the radical decline of Arctic sea ice is now at least 70% due to human-induced climate change emissions, and could be in fact be as much as 95%. The ice reduction has been accelerating since […]
