I am preparing a series of lessons on the supposed increase in flood
frequency and intensity in the UK as a result of climate change.

Trendy geography this, even if I am unconvinced about its efficacy.

Does any one amongst the iluuminaries of the esteemed members of this
newsgroup have any links to articles and papers that may help me
stimulate and educate the eager students at Bablake please?

Steve J

"Steve J" wrote in message
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I am preparing a series of lessons on the supposed increase in flood
frequency and intensity in the UK as a result of climate change.

Trendy geography this, even if I am unconvinced about its efficacy.

Does any one amongst the iluuminaries of the esteemed members of
this
newsgroup have any links to articles and papers that may help me
stimulate and educate the eager students at Bablake please?

Steve J


.... a couple for starters:-

http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/events/past...ng_seminar.pdf

http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/2976/

Martin.



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On May 16, 3:01*pm, Steve J wrote:
I am preparing a series of lessons on the supposed increase in flood
frequency and intensity in the UK as a result of climate change.

Trendy geography this, even if I am unconvinced about its efficacy.

Does any one amongst the iluuminaries of the esteemed members of this
newsgroup have any links to articles and papers that may help me
stimulate and educate the *eager students at Bablake please?

Steve J

I am not sure if using Google makes me an luminary or esteemed but if
you go to:
http://www.google.co.uk/
Click on "Pages from the UK" then enter
uk climate change flooding
you will get quite a few interesting pages including at least one
mentioned by Martin.
But I suspect your students would have told you that anyway :-)

If you repeat that procedure at
http://uk.altavista.com/
you will get some more including this one from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/impact/flooding.shtml
which is possibly is at a level most suitable for your pupils.

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/
also produces similar results including this one:

It's too late. Climate change floods are inevitable - no matter what
we do
Cost of erosion, rising rivers and polluted drains could hit £20bn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/ap...ce.environment

which is over five years old!

Perhaps I am teaching my granny to suck eggs because I thought all
teachers were now aware that their pupils go to Wikipedia and use that
text in their assignments. If you add wikipedia to the search string
you get this web page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood
which has a link to ^ Cabinet Office, UK. "Pitt Review: Lessons
learned from the 2007 floods." June 2008. at:
http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/...ittreview.html
which may be more like what you are looking for.

Anyway, I dislike students posting questions on newsgroups in order to
get the answer to their homework. So promise not to use any of this
in your lessons :-)

Cheers, Alastair.
for their assi

On May 16, 4:01*pm, Steve J wrote:
I am preparing a series of lessons on the supposed increase in flood
frequency and intensity in the UK as a result of climate change.

Trendy geography this, even if I am unconvinced about its efficacy.

Does any one amongst the iluuminaries of the esteemed members of this
newsgroup have any links to articles and papers that may help me
stimulate and educate the *eager students at Bablake please?

Steve J

Try Philip Eden's book "Great British Weather Disasters". Better to
present your students with something written by a climatologist,
instead of someone on Wiki.
The way Phil dissects the "unprecedented" weather of many recent
weather events, including floods, with a barrage of actual evidence is
quite superb and will make your students think twice before accepting
some of the wilder claims and hand-washing when an agency makes a
complet ******** of disaster planning.

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Steve J writes:
I am preparing a series of lessons on the supposed increase in flood
frequency and intensity in the UK as a result of climate change.

Trendy geography this, even if I am unconvinced about its efficacy.

Does any one amongst the iluuminaries of the esteemed members of this
newsgroup have any links to articles and papers that may help me
stimulate and educate the eager students at Bablake please?

There's much of interest in Philip Eden's most recent book, "Great
British Weather Disasters ".
--
John Hall "Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always
pays off now." Anon

John Hall wrote:

There's much of interest in Philip Eden's most recent book, "Great
British Weather Disasters ".

Would that be a book about the current crop of Weather
Forecasters/Presenters?

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

On 16 May, 17:38, Alastair wrote:

Perhaps I am teaching my granny to suck eggs because I thought all
teachers were now aware that their pupils go to Wikipedia and use that
text in their assignments.

Anyway, I dislike students posting questions on newsgroups in order to
get the answer to their homework. *So promise not to use any of this
in your lessons :-)

Thank you for your contributions gentlemen, especially Alistair who
seems to think me incapable of searcing wiki and the havens of the
average student who like to copy and paste their essays into a word
documanet:-)

I asked here in the hope of any knowledge of academic research that
may be factual rather than pure fantasy - all the usual easily
accessible links have been well covered, thanks.

Thanks Martin too - you never let anyone down on this ng:-)

Steve J

On 16 May, 16:36, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
... a couple for starters:-

http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/events/past..._flooding_semi...

http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/2976/


Excellent thanks mate

Steve J

On May 16, 4:01*pm, Steve J wrote:
I am preparing a series of lessons on the supposed increase in flood
frequency and intensity in the UK as a result of climate change.

Trendy geography this, even if I am unconvinced about its efficacy.

Does any one amongst the iluuminaries of the esteemed members of this
newsgroup have any links to articles and papers that may help me
stimulate and educate the *eager students at Bablake please?

Steve J

I suppose you have to do this. It does sound a bit like
Victorian schoolmasters having to teach boys the dissipative effects
of self-abuse. The suggestions here of using Philip Eden's book are
good and may stimulate discussion and perhaps a degree of
scepticism. There's always a danger with this kind of subject of
people (almost certainly not in your school) knowing everything about
increased flood risk without actually knowing what causes rain, just
as newspaper editors are experts on climate change without knowing the
first thing about climate. Sorry not to be more helpful.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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Graham P Davis writes:
John Hall wrote:

There's much of interest in Philip Eden's most recent book, "Great
British Weather Disasters ".

Would that be a book about the current crop of Weather
Forecasters/Presenters?


Now. now.
--
John Hall "Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always
pays off now." Anon