In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Eye Witness: The Lynmouth Disaster 1952
After reading my post about a visit to Lynmouth in 2007, Gillian Riddoch left a comment saying that her father was in the 102 Corps Engineer Regiment (TA) and he was in Lynmouth at the time of the tragic flood in 1952. I’m very pleased to be able to publish J. Gordon Killin’s account of [...]
Rising Sea Levels
When the waters start to rise, how will coastlines around the globe be affected? A clever mash-up of Google Maps and NASA data gives a graphic illustration of what could happen if sea levels rise by up to 14 metres. George Murphy, who commented on my North Polar Meltdown post, asked if I knew of [...]
The Truth Behind ‘Cold Comfort’
The story was so outrageous, many doubted it could be true — “Hailstones shooting out the toilet? Nahh. Gotta be a hoax.” When I published “Cold Comfort” a few days ago, it stirred up quite a controversy. So I dug a little deeper. My original source for the story was a humorous item published in [...]
Antarctic’s PIG Threatening Sea Levels
It was recently suggested that the amount of Antarctic ice has been growing in volume. Now comes news of glacial shrinkage that has the British Antarctic Survey worried: they say it could lead to a significant rise in global sea levels. It was only a few days ago that I posted Being Economical With The [...]
Spend Flood Defence Cash Quicker
The additional money allocated for improving Britain’s flood defences must be spent sooner rather than later, or it will cost the nation much more in the long term, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). As I recently reported, in Somerset — where I live — our urgently needed flood defence improvements, for which there’s [...]
Somerset Flood Defences Put On Hold
I would have thought that in the wake of Britain’s worst summer floods in years, followed by today’s little panic about a storm surge running down England’s eastern coast, when strong north-easterly winds combined with the highest North Sea tide for fifty years to threaten hundreds of miles of our coastline — even the Thames [...]
North Polar Meltdown
The day after I (rather hurriedly, because I was going out all day) posted an item about a British judge’s somewhat negative comments on Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, comes the news that Mr. Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their [...]
Climate Change: Competing Theories
Richard Cassidy commented on my UK Floods: The Crisis Deepens post yesterday, saying he saw a feature on BBC news yesterday which suggested that the Gulfstream had [temporarily??] shifted south of the UK. Thanks for your comment Richard. I found a BBC News Online report that talks about the shifting of the Jet Stream high [...]
UK Floods: The Crisis Deepens
As the flood waters continue to rise in the worst environmental disaster to hit Britain in a generation, the politicians are falling over themselves to assure us that everything that could be done was done prior to the deluge. After the flooding last week across Yorkshire, in Sheffield and Hull and other northern cities, towns [...]
The UK Floods
This was never intended to be a “techy” blog, though my last few posts do seem to have taken me in that direction, which shows how easy it is for me to get side-tracked by the wunnerful world of Web 2.0. Well, other much more important things have been happening in the world outside my [...]
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