Noise nuisance and carbon damage. The Navitus fiasco- Dorset misses out (ie no clean energy/clean jobs for 767,000 homes)
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to Andrew Hill, tobias.e...@parliament.uk
Thanks again Andrew,
Sadly the deep irony of your NHS messaging here, "We must keep protecting each other".."Stay alert...save lives"
does not extend to the escalating cost of carbon and the existential damage to all nine planetary systems that keep us breathing!
As the Senior Environmental Health Officer and Communities please help address the want of protection for BCP residents as the natural world is beaten into submission. We are all desperately vulnerable.
I look for leadership on decarbonisation at speed and scale from BCP Council and find this 'Centre of Excellence' which does not include a Public Information Programme about how the public are helped, encouraged, incentivised and motivated to decarbonise at
speed and scale. This is for our species' survival on Earth.
And all other species of course.
This not just "coastal erosion", this is Extraordinarily Worse- Than- Expected- Damaging- Climate -Unravelling. But the public at the moment are strangely free to Carry on Polluting at will! They are not told how extremely bad things are. This is deeply
disrespectful.
The amazing solutions now being produced by many heroes to deal with the complete mess we've got ourselves into is MIGHTY INVISIBLE BCP! Please make them visible. Environmental literacy is now essential.
Currently we are NOT protected from a compromised biosphere. Many young people are now saying they are the last generation! This is why some are in prison as they try to defend what they can while they can. Media, politics, judiciary, the police and many
ordinary folk are just not listening to the cries of Sixth Mass Extinction and Code Red for Humanity from the scientists. We are warned RIGHT NOW to make the choice between COLLECTIVE ACTION or COLLECTIVE SUICIDE as I've quoted below.
Not that the hopeful incumbents of number 10 have that in their out- of- touch speeches!
WHY do BCP council not consult with the #Fridays4Future generation, who were VERY VISIBLE INDEED pre-pandemic in Bournemouth Square and well-supported by the Unity Alliance councillors? I am a witness.
I note Bournemouth councillors and representatives also ignored the December 2014 Grammar Schools' Debate which voted in favour of the Navitus Bay Wind Farm. A headline letter appeared in the Echo after the skewed BIC meeting, "My Generation Unrepresented."
Young people were NOT invited to take part in the BIC talks about Navitus in May 2014 as I noted at the time. A group of sixteen of us protested about this afterwards but nothing was done to address the lack of representation of the young. Those whose future
is currently being annihilated by anachronistic energy supplies and other corrupt industries.
At the BIC in May 2014 a panel of 5 or 6 males which included two MPs were ranged against this one speaker, me. What a skewed and unfair presentation! I was the only invited speaker in favour of the project apart from the developer.
To add insult to injury at the BU student conference 30.1.2015 the Navitus conversation at the morning session was quickly shut down by Cllr Dion who arrogantly declared it had been discussed enough. Which was news to the students sitting around me who wanted
to discuss it!
And in the afternoon conference session with the MPs (and Green Natalie Bennett- now a Lady, present on video link) there was an air of pessimism amongst the students. Quelle surprise!
No wonder Private Eye often finds plenty to comment on about our area!
Many, many young people have spoken up in favour of the prospective wind farm which has been unheard by many BCP councillors. They should have been heard at the BIC but were not.
The IOW was particularly upset at the opposition to the windfarm, being part of the wonderful Solent Offshore Renewable Energy Consortium. I heard Conor Burns MP being unhelpfully negative at the Inspectorate Cowes meeting. He was criticised afterwards when
he left the room without hearing all of our speeches.
I visited the amazing R & D place around that time; a visit organised by IOW Friends of the Earth. The young people who worked at Vestas were extremely enthusiastic about the fabulously developing technology and I wish our MPs could have heard them!
Newport /Cowes manufactured the ground-breaking, magnificent 80' Vestas blades which export to the lucky world but not locally. How utterly potty for our conurbation to turn down such a brilliant enterprise. Yarmouth and Cowes workers were not the only
ones miffed; Dorset workers too had been upset to lose good employment prospects.
Here's what I find now;
Vestas: Wind turbine jobs boost for Isle of Wight factory
Published
The
shorter 80m (262ft) blade is bigger than the wingspan of the 747 jumbo jet - a single turn can power an average UK home for 29 hours
More jobs are on the horizon after a company which makes wind turbines announced a new generation of the green energy machines.
Vestas currently employs 650 people manufacturing wind turbine blades on the Isle of Wight, it is thought 50 new jobs will be created.
The Danish company said the longer 85m (279ft) blades are for a European offshore wind project.
The plant has made blades for seven of the UK's largest offshore wind farms.
In a statement, Vestas said the new V174-9.5 turbine "boasts the industry's most powerful, commercially proven output".
Wind
turbine blades are regularly seen being transported on barges from the Isle of Wight
Vestas COO for northern and central Europe Johnny Høy Henriksen said: "Vestas has invested in the UK for 20 years, and we have great pride in the technical expertise in blade manufacturing that
we have developed at our Isle of Wight plant."
Local MP Bob Seely said: "This decision is important not only for high-quality jobs for islanders but it's also important for Britain as we increase the supply of renewable energy.
"This is a major vote of confidence in the island and in islanders to deliver very high-quality manufacturing in green energy."
Vestas said it had tested and manufactured wind turbine blades on the island since 2002, prototyping and producing more than 10,000 blades.
The Isle of Wight plant currently produces V164 turbine blades and has delivered more than 1,000 blades to north European markets, including more than £360m worth of exports since 2014.
Perhaps Private Eye will be interested in the dismal backstory!
Brighton of course has done well from its Rampion wind farm and fishermen have taken visitors out to see the turbines. Rampion is nearer to shore than Navitus would have been.
The prized Jurassic coast needs to be protected from more climate erosion by sensible zero carbon projects.
And this BCP response (below) to whacked and battered Mother Nature is simply inadequate to the serious plan we need as harvests fail, soil erodes, the climate refugee situation escalates and conflict over diminishing resources becomes inevitable. Where will
we find the solutions for clean energy, transport and food and water supplies?
Calling climate damage "coastal erosion" does not help us understand humanity's key role in this disaster.
Is this supposed to be a plan? We know the Environment Agency is suggesting managed retreat (as suggested by Poole Agenda 21 years ago).
We have formed a Centre of Excellence to help prepare and protect residents and communities across the BCP and neighbouring areas from coastal flooding
and erosion.
Coastal Erosion Risk Management
Protecting property and infrastructure from the eroding forces of wind and waves through the use of hard and soft coastal defences.
Our coast protection depends mainly on the level of width of our beaches, which means they must be constantly maintained. It is also necessary to repair, replace or add to existing beach control structures such as groynes, that help keep beach material in place.
This website records the Coastal Management work that is helping to safeguard beachfront and cliff-top property and infrastructure … [read
more]
Bees, butterflies, peat-free compost, glyphosate-free greenery, Make-Do-and-Mend, habitat for wildlife, clean air and poison-free transport must all please
be invited back BCP!
I also look for protection from my MP Tobias Ellwood. On his website we see;
"As we move into the summer recess, I wanted to remind my constituents that my office remains open to help
with any issues that you may be experiencing."
Acting on this information I did drop a copy of the Observer (with warnings about our awful plight) into
the Moordown office during office hours last week but there was no-one there who could help with an appointment. I have been to the office several times now, have emailed frequently and have phoned up but so far without result.
I therefore look forward to hearing from you Tobias Ellwood. Please explain to this constituent about
how you will help us decarbonise at speed and scale in line with the latest dire warnings to our well-being and update your website accordingly. In hopes that we can collectively stave off the unravelling of eco-systems and predicted collapse of the biosphere.
Four degrees of warming is not a survivable future but some government departments are pretending they can prepare for just that.
Mark Z. Jacobson Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy Co-Founder, The Solutions Project, 100.org, and the 100% Clean,
Renewable Energy Movement ATMOSPHERE/ENERGY BS/MS/PhD PROGRAM
Nuclear cannot work in overheated situations (it disastrously failed in France 2003 when tens of thousands
of elderly folk died horribly of overheating).
Our infrastructure is crumbling on many fronts. Our railway lines are not pre-stressed for overheating as
are those in some countries.
We must demand less! There is a lot to do but we can all help as my parents' generation did. Giving us all
a future.
I look forward to hearing from you Tobias Ellwood with initial thoughts for a plan to protect the well-being
of constituents and the world we all live in. Sadly we have now all lost the friendly Holocene in which we thrived as a species. This awful situation has been seen off by people-unfriendly energy systems which have cruelly deceived us for decades. I hope
you have been watching the recent BBC 2 series about it.
But we can try to Salvage and Survive the Anthropocene. We can all see what is happening and know that dangers
are now multiplying.
Time is not on our side.
No visible Public Information Plan is yet in place to activate and motivate all citizens for a zero carbon
future in which all species can thrive.
I look forward to hearing from both BCP council with a proper plan for our survival and from Tobias Ellwood
about a constituency appointment which will outline brilliant ideas for our continued well-being.
A Public Information Programme will factor in a multiplicity of information inviting All Hands on Deck to
help us all Salvage and Survive.
A good place to start would be the shocking waste of resources being squandered, ending in landfill or,
insanely on a burning planet, incinerated! Most people don't want to throw away their money and would be happy to see better solutions for all resources.
Thankyou,
Susan Chapman (usual address)
The Guardian says:
Earlier
this week, we published anexclusive
story revealing how climate breakdown is supercharging the toll of extreme weatheracross
the planet. In the most comprehensive compilation of scientific studies on the subject to date, we revealed that at least a dozen of the most serious events, from killer heatwaves to broiling seas, would have been all but impossible without human-caused global
heating. We worked closely with climate information website Carbon Brief who have compiled a new database of attribution studies of more than 500 events – every such study available – and shared it exclusively with the Guardian.
I asked our environment editor Damian Carrington how the project
came together.
Q.
How long did all this research take? How many people worked on it?
The
new database of every known study assessing how much global heating has supercharged particular extreme weather events - 500 in total - was put together over months by Rob McSweeney at Carbon Brief.
Q.How did we come to collaborate with Carbon Brief? Carbon Brief shared the database exclusively with the Guardian,
enabling us to draw out the stark picture of the climate impacts already occurring for our many readers.
Q. What most struck you about the research findings? What were the most shocking aspects? There were a lot of shocking findings. First, human-caused global
heating is making heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms more deadly and more frequent everywhere, and that is with just 1C of heating so far. We are currently headed for 2.5C or more. At least 12 major events would have been essentially impossible in the
absence of humanity's carbon emissions. Scientists have also found that one-in-three deaths from summer heat over the last two decades would not have happened without global heating - that implies millions of deaths.
Q. How has this project informed the work you and others at the Guardian will carry out from
now on? It is clear we are now in the era of climate damage, and reporting
on how to avoid the worst is more important than ever, from cutting emissions to preparing for disasters to paying for recovery.
Q. How have readers responded to the piece? Lots of readers found the story shocking and scary, but I've also
had thanks for writing it and setting out how much we know about climate damage.
Damian
added: “It was a big team effort, with editors, designers, graphic artists, picture editors and subeditors all playing key roles, so I'd like to thank the Guardian's supporters for giving us the time and space to produce major articles like this.”
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Facebook today: "Scale of suffering locked in" - thanks Jon as ever!
Every member of my caucus is elated about what happened because we've really ... we've changed the world".
(Sen Chuck Schumer)
Damn straight you have !
If the UK media told the truth the public would know that 1.5C is dead, 2C is dead and the USA 'Inflation Reduction Act' puts the world on track for a scale of upheaval that will collapse agriculture in dozens of countries and wipe low lying nations off the
map.
The BBC, C4 and ITV all portrayed the climate legislation as a good news story; but the IPCC demanded 45% cuts by 2030, with more coming from wealthy nations like the USA.
But the best the USA can offer is 40% cuts by 2030, with so much money borrowed to provide subsidies, it seems impossible any of the 'loss and damage' compensation owed to the primary victim nations will be paid.
It is a disaster. It is better than nothing, but the UK media should have told people about the scale of suffering that is now locked in.
The video clips are of ITV news at 10pm and BBC news.
There is no decibel limit for the air show fly by events because of their relatively short duration.
Although maximum noise limits are set for occupational noise exposure, there is no limit defined for environmental noise, including aviation noise. However, in order to assess the
adverse impact of aircraft noise in the UK, government policy has established that the Lowest Observed Adverse Effect Level (LOAEL) is 51 dB LAeq,16h for an average summer’s day and
45 dB LAeq,8hr for an average summer’s night.
These are time weighted averages and therefore the average noise level of 16 hours during the day would need to be exceeded. The air show would not breach these levels.
Therefore, I have no concerns about the aircraft noise from the air show.
Thankyou Andrew Hill but what please is the decibel level?
The acceptability of such a carbonic event is surely questionable when so many are dying from climate impacts- still being caused by us.
I am increasingly offended by careless indifference to the suffering being caused.
I used to like the air show- but times (and Earth's chemistry) are changing. Some govt departments are planning for four degrees of warning; this is not survivable.
18.7.22, Guardian:
Wildfires and
heatwaves wreaking havoc across swathes of the globe show humanity facing “collective suicide”, the UN secretary general has warned, as governments around the world scramble to protect people from the impacts of extreme heat.
António Guterres told ministers from 40 countries meeting to discuss the climate crisis on Monday: “Half of humanity is in the danger zone, from floods, droughts, extreme storms and
wildfires. No nation is immune. Yet we continue to feed our fossil fuel addiction.”
He added: “We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.”
We are losing the biosphere but does anyone know? Are we setting a good example? We must stop normalising anachronistic behaviour,
The permitted levels for the Shake and Stir festival is 67 dB(A) over a 15min period taken at 1m from the closest noise sensitive receptor. We have in the past done noise monitoring and no breaches of this level was measured.
With regards to the air festival, the noise from aircraft is only transient and would not be classed as a statutory noise nuisance. The event only occurs once a year, at reasonable times and does not occur at a frequency that we would be concerned about.
I am experiencing a problem with the overheating of our planet. And am too hot at night. This country has become uncomfortable and dangerous.
The recent July Southbourne Forum reported a complaint about the Shake and Stir event at Fisherman's Walk.I believe it has been upheld.
Please confirm.
Please advise me of the decibel level of such an event which I cannot hear from my house in Parkwood Road.
Please advise me of acceptable decibel levels for public events.
Please tell me the decibel level of the Air Festival over my house in Parkwood Road. I can hear that. So can all the poor terrified animals in the area.
Clearly at a time of great emergencies, such as our Global Incineration Event and Code Red Warning for Humanity as millions are dying, losing their homes and relocating is it a good idea to give the impression that
such an event is acceptable?
Your enquiry has been received and we will respond as soon as possible.
If you are experiencing problems associated with noise at night, please contact our out of hours service on: -
Bournemouth area: 0800 0281870
Christchurch area: 0800 0281870
Poole area: 0800 506050
8pm to 2am from Monday to Saturday as well as 9am to 5pm on Saturday
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