Bradford experts face against time on Orkney beach (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Presumably they gained their expertise by studying the eroding remains of Bradford.

And they wonder where they can start with cuts ?
Nobody ever rang 999 and asked for an archaeologist.

yorkshirenews wrote:
And they wonder where they can start with cuts ?
Nobody ever rang 999 and asked for an archaeologist.

The number of paid Archaeologists has fallen by 7% in the last 12 months, due to Tory spending cuts, and this vital essential work is now mostly being done by an army of unpaid volunteers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/uk-14172358

Where they can start with spending cuts is the hugely costly and extremely wasteful Work Training Programme (previously known as 'New Deal'), which costs the taxpayer many millions and serves no actual purpose whatsoever other than to harass, persecute, scapegoat and intimidate the poorest in society. Get rid of that, close down the Jobcentres (another huge waste of money) and then pursue the Billionaire tax cheats such as Conservative Party owner and total crook, Lord Ashcroft.

What research into climate change will reveal in the Scottish Islands is that humans have always had to adapt to constantly changing climate patterns.

Over the millennia since the last Ice Age ended in Britain over 10,000 years ago the local climate has altered in a series of long cycles or waves; for example: from the warmer interlude at the time of the Romans to the colder period of the Dark Ages circa 6th & 7th centuries, back to the warmer mediaeval period c. 12th & 13th centuries and the so-called 'Little Ice Age of the 17th & 18th centuries.
I do not accept for one moment that increased CO2 emissions are the reason for these fluctuations in climate. What I hope is that further research will reveal that the panic and unjustified measures to reduce CO2 gas emission is not linked to climate at all, despite what the present and hypotheses and academic theory may suggest, and that sound scientific facts will prevail in the end.

pjl20 wrote:
What research into climate change will reveal in the Scottish Islands is that humans have always had to adapt to constantly changing climate patterns.

Over the millennia since the last Ice Age ended in Britain over 10,000 years ago the local climate has altered in a series of long cycles or waves; for example: from the warmer interlude at the time of the Romans to the colder period of the Dark Ages circa 6th & 7th centuries, back to the warmer mediaeval period c. 12th & 13th centuries and the so-called 'Little Ice Age of the 17th & 18th centuries.
I do not accept for one moment that increased CO2 emissions are the reason for these fluctuations in climate. What I hope is that further research will reveal that the panic and unjustified measures to reduce CO2 gas emission is not linked to climate at all, despite what the present and hypotheses and academic theory may suggest, and that sound scientific facts will prevail in the end.

If that's what you 'hope', you'll be disappointed. The overwhelming majority of scientists are in absolute agreement that climate change is happening and that it is the impact of human actions that are forcing the change.
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Yes, climate change has happened before - but that was before the planet was stretched to its limits trying to feed 7billion of us. We are poisoning the sea, our crops are failing, our soil has been overworked, our forests are falling, our bees are dying. We, as a species, are largely responsible, and yet we go along with our eyes tightly shut, and our fingers in our ears saying "It's not my fault!" because it would be too much to bear, wouldn't it? Knowing that we were killing our children and our grandchildren, so that we can have cars and plastic bags, foreign holidays and luxuries...
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Got kids? Wise up. You're cooking the planet for their future.

pjl20 wrote:
What research into climate change will reveal in the Scottish Islands is that humans have always had to adapt to constantly changing climate patterns.

Over the millennia since the last Ice Age ended in Britain over 10,000 years ago the local climate has altered in a series of long cycles or waves; for example: from the warmer interlude at the time of the Romans to the colder period of the Dark Ages circa 6th & 7th centuries, back to the warmer mediaeval period c. 12th & 13th centuries and the so-called 'Little Ice Age of the 17th & 18th centuries.
I do not accept for one moment that increased CO2 emissions are the reason for these fluctuations in climate. What I hope is that further research will reveal that the panic and unjustified measures to reduce CO2 gas emission is not linked to climate at all, despite what the present and hypotheses and academic theory may suggest, and that sound scientific facts will prevail in the end.

You probably aint heard about the apparent finding of evidence for dutch elm disease in the mainly elm forests just before European's started farming. Seems a way more plausible explanation as to why those forests disappeared so fast, compared to "humans cut them down".