06 Apr 2016
Research commissioned by the Environment Agency predicts that eutrophication in rivers will increase with climate change, but can be mitigated with better water management. It sets out a national scale picture of flow related changes in phosphorus concentrations and indicates where the Agency may need to target intervention to meet phosphorus standards in the future. […]
30 Mar 2016
Climate change experts always warn of exceptional weather and earlier this year we highlighted this in relation to the northern floods and rainfall levels. This set of five articles outlines how thinking is changing on: 1 & 2 How scientists are attributing exceptional weather events to climate change 3 – 5 Cover more extremes: global temperatures […]
15 Mar 2016
Valuable spin-off from the planning process helping to inform future developments MMO: ‘The aim of this project (Report MMO1077) is to combine future climate data from the UK climate projections 2009 with information on current and predicted marine activities in the South and East marine plan areas to identify potential climate change impacts and benefits.’
22 Feb 2016
If you want to be kept routinely updated about interesting marine news on climate change and its impacts sign up for the MCCIP News or contact Susana Lincoln Tel: +44(0)1502 524336 – Email: susana.lincoln@cefas.co.uk Deep waters buffering climate change – Sea-level rise ‘could last twice as long as human history’ Research warns of the long […]
13 Jan 2016
The Prime Minister, Rt Hon David Cameron MP, appears before the Liaison Committee. The meeting focuses on (1) Syria and (2) Climate Change and Flooding. Watch Parliament TV: Evidence from the Prime Minister Read the transcript: Evidence from the Prime Minister ( PDF 329 KB) Liaison Committee Rt Hon Andrew Tyrie MP, Chairman of the Liaison […]
17 Dec 2015
By Bruce Horton (bruce@envpolconsulting.co.uk) & Bob Earll (bob.earll@coastms.co.uk) With more contributions from Rob Lawson rob@artesia-consulting.co.uk Richard Pagett secure@richardpagett.com and Sue Wells suewells1212@gmail.com So, time to reflect on a momentous and historic agreement…. First, there’s the facts – an ambitious, binding and international agreement to limit the global mean temperature rise to 2 degrees, with an aspiration […]
07 Dec 2015
The Paris Climate change conference (COP21) will come to its end on Friday (11th December) We will be doing let me know if there is anything particularly useful interesting on the outputs: Follow it day by day on http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/ Here are two useful interesting videos. What does ocean acidification look like? Jason Hall-Spencer Marine scientists […]
24 Nov 2015
Severn Trent sets out climate change adaptation plans to 2020 Severn Trent Water has published a new report setting out its climate change adaptation plans to 2020 which include doubling the number of sustainable urban drainage projects, reducing leakage by 6% and giving up around 85Ml/d of abstraction licenses. Introducing the Future Proofing report, Severn Trent […]
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