On Wednesday, an excellent and most informative conducted walk from Marloes Sands to the Deer Park and back, led by archaeologists from the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAMHW). They were concentrating on their joint Welsh/Irish CHERISH project, which aims to record the impact of Climate Change and sea level rise on historic landscapes and terrestrial and marine archaeology.
Then on Thursday, RCAMHW’s Dr Julian Whiteright gave an online talk: a similar theme, but this time covering important marine sites all over Wales. I was taken by surprise when I got a mention for the information on the Albion shipwreck I have given to the CHERISH team: Julian was making the point that there are very few archaeologists covering the very long Welsh coastline, so they need as many as possible “citizen science” volunteers to report how sea changes affect existing historic sites, and how extreme weather events reveal long-hidden if not previously unseen remains.
Meanwhile, this week the latest Met Ofiice report came out confirming an acceleration of sea level rise, and emphasising just how abnormal the “new normals” of UK temperatures are, even compared with just 30 years ago.
More cheerfully, AT LAST Senator Joe Manchin has come to his senses and stopped obstructing Joe Biden’s Climate Deal legislation, plus his proposed healthcare improvements.
But I don’t hold out much hope for UK progress at anywhere near the necessary rate: neither Tory candidate for PM takes the Climate Emergency that seriously, and the moratorium on onshore wind developments (the cheapest source of electricity and strategically very sound) is likely to remain, whichever wins.
her crankshaft, standing upright as it used to before the storms of February 2014
