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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions she has had with experts on the effects of global warming on coastline and river levels.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions she has had with experts on the effects of global warming on coastline and river levels.
Asked by
Ian Liddell-Grainger
(Conservative)
Answered by
Elliot Morley
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 December 2005
For answer on
12 December 2005
Answered on
14 December 2005
The Department funds much of the UK work on climate change, its impacts and appropriate adaptation measures and so we are in regular contact with leading experts in this field.The main effects on the coastline relate to sea level rise, compounded by long term land movement. For the UK, estimates were published in the 2002 UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) Scenarios of Climate change. Other factors include the frequency, duration and intensity of storms which drive waves and surges.The effect of climate change on river levels depends on complex interactions between rainfall patterns (including both the frequency, intensity and duration of severe storms and longer term rainfall patterns that determine the degree of catchment wetness) and physical catchment characteristics.The Department has since 1989 issued precautionary guidance on the climate change impacts that should be taken into account when designing flood and coastal erosion risk management measures. This was last updated in 2003 to take account of the UKCIP 2002 scenarios and other specific research on river and coastal impacts. The guidance is kept under review in the light of emerging research results; for example, those presented by leading experts at DEFRA's conference on ‘Dangerous Climate Change', held in Exeter in early 2005. In developing our new Strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management—Making Space for Water-we have made a specific commitment to review our guidance in 2007. To support this review DEFRA has just commissioned a major piece of research over a 30 month period to understand, better the potential impacts on river flow of a range of future climate scenarios.
Subjects
Coastal areas; Climate change; Coastal erosion; Flood control; Floods; Sea level
Date
14 December 2005
Reference
440 c2012-3W; 37248
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research her Department has conducted on sea levels in the Bristol Bay area for the next 20 years - Includes ref to "Climate Change Scenarios of the United Kingdom", copy in Library.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research her Department has conducted on sea levels in the Bristol Bay area for the next 20 years - Includes ref to "Climate Change Scenarios of the United Kingdom", copy in Library.
Asked by
Ian Liddell-Grainger
(Conservative)
Answered by
Elliot Morley
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
1 April 2003
For answer on
8 April 2003
Answered on
8 April 2003
Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research her Department has
conducted on sea levels in the Bristol Bay area for the next 20 years. [107339]
Mr. Morley: Sea levels have been and will continue to be monitored in the Bristol Channel as a part of the National Tide Gauge
Network, operated by Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL) and funded by Defra.
Tide gauges are monitoring sea levels constantly at the following sites, Mumbles, Newport, Avonmouth, Hinkley Point and Ilfracombe.
The Environment Agency also monitor levels at West Quay Bridgwater for local operational reasons. This information is used to
provide tidal predictions and for monitoring long term sea levels and relative land levels.
Through analysis of the Tide Gauge data and information from global climate change modelling POL have made predictions of future
trends in sea levels all round the UK. These have informed the recommended Defra allowance of 5 mm rise per year for this area of
the coast that takes account of both sea and major land level movements. It is also compatible with a range of future scenarios
published by Defra last year as part of the UK Climate Impacts Programme in "Climate Change Scenarios of the United Kingdom", copies
of which can be found in the Libraries of both Houses.
Subjects
Coastal areas; Climate change; Flood control; Forecasts; Statistics; Research; Bristol Channel; Sea level
Date
8 April 2003
Reference
107339; 403 c135W
House
House of Commons