There was a report on Spotlight (regional programme) the other day about
eroding cliffs and shifts in sand/pebbles on beaches etc.

The bit that caught my attention was when the presenter said that with
increasing global temperatures there will be an increase in the frequency
and size of the big waves rolling onto our beaches, thus increasing erosion.

I sent him an email saying that with the Arctic warming disproportionally
more than the tropics, that the temperature difference is decreasing and so
are the severity and frequency of the Atlantic storms reaching our shores.
He agreed with the disproportionate warming but not with the decrease in
storminess.

He pointed me to this article:
http://xtide.ldeo.columbia.edu/~visb...ster/Woolf.pdf.

The article seems to point at an increase, being no expert on these things
is there anybody who could cast a comment on this?

I seem to recall that Graham has some interesting data showing a significant
decrease in gales for the west of Cornwall.

Thanks in advance.
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Nick
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk