This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Monday, 7 December 2020
Disappearing White Christmas?
Being a fully paid-up UK Grinch, I have an aversion to Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' song (in spite of its current download performance). I am saddened, however, at the news that relatively soon, we are unlikely to see the white stuff, on the ground, in Southern areas of the UK (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/07/snow-may-not-settle-in-most-of-uk-by-end-of-century-study-suggests). There are, of course, always annual variations in climate. It is predicted, however, that, by the 2040's, climate change in Southern areas of the UK, will result in there being no days in the year when temperatures fall to freezing or below. The only snows the country might see by the end of the century (if it is still one country), would be at high elevations or in the North of Scotland. Snow is not just a Christmas tradition. Without it, we are likely to see more flooding and increasing numbers of pest species surviving our winters.
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Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.
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