The sand is edged by curious
beach hut type structures. I saw no sign of life but like to think of eccentric,
slightly dishevelled, figures whiling and whittling away their days in complete
peace.
There’s a beautiful walk past the craggy ruins of Dunstanburgh castle to Craster or over the headland to Beadnall beach. The light over the sand has a weird translucence which gives all a dream-like quality.
Opposite the beach, The Ship Inn sits in a tiny square. If you like a traditional pub with wooden floors and an open fire then you’ve found perfection. Their food is gorgeous, loads of locally caught fish – and they brew their own beer.
My second favourite thing – after remote bleak beaches – is slightly faded but spirited English seaside towns. So I was delighted with my visit to Seahouses. Theran with a fascinating board detailing all the recent rescues.
For a complete contrast there’s nearby Bamburgh, which has been a tourist location since Victorian times because of their most famous local, Grace Darling.
Grace was just 22 when she rowed more than a mile in raging seas to rescue stricken sailors after the SS Forfarshire sank on September 7, 1838. Her story captured the imagination of Britain at the time. Grace was one of the original celebs – newspaper sketch artists hung around the village trying to catch a glimpse of her – kind of like today’s paparazzi but armed only with a pencil.
The small but perfectly formed Grace Darling museum tells the story of her rescue through her personal belongings and letters. The biggest thrill is seeing the actual boat in which she carried out the rescue. Opposite is the church where she is buried.
As well as a castle Bamburgh also has all the requisite tourist pullers – delis, ice cream parlours, gift shops.
But it was the beach that again captivated me... rolling wide dunes, mile after mile of open sand.
Not far from Bamburgh there’s Alnwick, famous for its castle, which was Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter films.
Depending on your generation you may prefer Alnwick gardens. There’s a woodland walk, rose gardens, water displays, a cherry orchard. (And there’s a restaurant called Treehouse which is literally in the tree tops. What human being could fail to be excited by a treehouse?)
The Poison Gardens are fascinating – and hold so many perilous plants that they have to be licensed by the Home Office.We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. Locked, gated and displaying skull and cross bones, visitors are only allowed in on a supervised tour.
The guides tell tales of myth, legend and murder. I’ll never look at a daffodil in the same way... did you know the Romans used the bulbs as a ‘cyanide pill’ in case they were captured?
Northumberland lived up to its billing. But all that sea air and outdoor living needed to be matched by a place to lay my head which meets my exacting standards. Luckily there’s
Doxford Hall Hotel and Spa. It describes itself as a country house hotel but has none of the stuffiness that this can mean.Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot. This is one of those places that stays with you after you leave.
It was built in the 1800s and was a residential home before being beautifully refurbished. There are 31 rooms which have been furnished with real consideration and taste. They’re really fresh and luxurious with gorgeous bathrooms.
This is simply one of those hotels that has achieved its clear aim of leaving guests pure and relaxed in mind and spirit.
There’s a lovely pool and spa. This is not a tiny hotel pool but a place where you can have a substantial swim.
The attention to detail continues in Doxford’s cosy, wood-panelled George Runciman restaurant which also has a roaring open fire. The menu is traditional with a delicious non-traditional spin. Many of the ingredients are proudly declared as locally sourced, with meat from Longframlington, potatoes from a Northumberland farm, seafood from North Shields.
Regular followers of RealClimate will be aware of our publication in 2009 in Nature, showing that West Antarctica — the part of the Antarctic ice sheet that is currently contributing the most to sea level rise, and which has the potential to become unstable and contribute a lot more to sea level rise in the future — has been warming up for the last 50 years or so.
Our paper was met with a lot of skepticism, and not just from the usual suspects. A lot of our fellow scientists, it seems, had trouble getting over their long-held view (based only on absence of evidence) that the only place in Antarctica that was warming up was the Antarctica Peninsula. To be fair, our analysis was based on interpolation, using statistics to fill in data where it was absent, so we really hadn’t proven anything; we’d only done an analysis that pointed in a particular direction.
It has been a strange couple of years in limbo: we have known with certainty for at least two years that our results were basically correct, because there was a great deal of very solid corroborating evidence, including the borehole temperature data that confirmed our basic findings, and data from automatic weather stations near the center of West Antarctica that we hadn’t used, but which Andy Monaghan at Ohio State (now NCAR) had shown also corroborated our results. But most of this work was unpublished until very recently,Whether you are installing a floor tiles or a shower wall, so it wasn’t really usable information.Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals.
So it was a nice early Christmas present to see the publication of a new assessment by the well-known guru of Antarctic meteorology, David Bromwich, along with his students and colleagues at Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin (who run the U.S. automatic weather station program in Antarctica) and NCAR, which back up our results. Actually, they do more than back-up our results: they show that our estimates were too conservative and that West Antarctica is actually warming by about a factor of two more than we estimated. They also agree with the key interpretation of the results that both we and David Schneider and colleagues at NCAR have presented: that in the winter and spring seasons,Trade platform for China crystal mosaic manufacturers when the most rapid warming is occurring in West Antarctica, the driver has been changes in the tropical Pacific, not the ozone hole (which is invoked too frequently, in my view, to explain everything from penguin populations to sea ice changes).
The borehole temperature data were published earlier this year by Orsi et al. in Geophysical Research Letters. The new temperature reconstruction of Monaghan was included as part of a paper (Küttel et al.) on ice core records in Climate Dynamics, also earlier this year; it was also included in the reconstruction in Schneider et al. 2011 in Climate Dynamics. Both showed unambiguously that West Antarctic is warming up, as fast as the Antarctic Peninsula. Bromwich et al. gets this same result again.
There’s a beautiful walk past the craggy ruins of Dunstanburgh castle to Craster or over the headland to Beadnall beach. The light over the sand has a weird translucence which gives all a dream-like quality.
Opposite the beach, The Ship Inn sits in a tiny square. If you like a traditional pub with wooden floors and an open fire then you’ve found perfection. Their food is gorgeous, loads of locally caught fish – and they brew their own beer.
My second favourite thing – after remote bleak beaches – is slightly faded but spirited English seaside towns. So I was delighted with my visit to Seahouses. Theran with a fascinating board detailing all the recent rescues.
For a complete contrast there’s nearby Bamburgh, which has been a tourist location since Victorian times because of their most famous local, Grace Darling.
Grace was just 22 when she rowed more than a mile in raging seas to rescue stricken sailors after the SS Forfarshire sank on September 7, 1838. Her story captured the imagination of Britain at the time. Grace was one of the original celebs – newspaper sketch artists hung around the village trying to catch a glimpse of her – kind of like today’s paparazzi but armed only with a pencil.
The small but perfectly formed Grace Darling museum tells the story of her rescue through her personal belongings and letters. The biggest thrill is seeing the actual boat in which she carried out the rescue. Opposite is the church where she is buried.
As well as a castle Bamburgh also has all the requisite tourist pullers – delis, ice cream parlours, gift shops.
But it was the beach that again captivated me... rolling wide dunes, mile after mile of open sand.
Not far from Bamburgh there’s Alnwick, famous for its castle, which was Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter films.
Depending on your generation you may prefer Alnwick gardens. There’s a woodland walk, rose gardens, water displays, a cherry orchard. (And there’s a restaurant called Treehouse which is literally in the tree tops. What human being could fail to be excited by a treehouse?)
The Poison Gardens are fascinating – and hold so many perilous plants that they have to be licensed by the Home Office.We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. Locked, gated and displaying skull and cross bones, visitors are only allowed in on a supervised tour.
The guides tell tales of myth, legend and murder. I’ll never look at a daffodil in the same way... did you know the Romans used the bulbs as a ‘cyanide pill’ in case they were captured?
Northumberland lived up to its billing. But all that sea air and outdoor living needed to be matched by a place to lay my head which meets my exacting standards. Luckily there’s
Doxford Hall Hotel and Spa. It describes itself as a country house hotel but has none of the stuffiness that this can mean.Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot. This is one of those places that stays with you after you leave.
It was built in the 1800s and was a residential home before being beautifully refurbished. There are 31 rooms which have been furnished with real consideration and taste. They’re really fresh and luxurious with gorgeous bathrooms.
This is simply one of those hotels that has achieved its clear aim of leaving guests pure and relaxed in mind and spirit.
There’s a lovely pool and spa. This is not a tiny hotel pool but a place where you can have a substantial swim.
The attention to detail continues in Doxford’s cosy, wood-panelled George Runciman restaurant which also has a roaring open fire. The menu is traditional with a delicious non-traditional spin. Many of the ingredients are proudly declared as locally sourced, with meat from Longframlington, potatoes from a Northumberland farm, seafood from North Shields.
Regular followers of RealClimate will be aware of our publication in 2009 in Nature, showing that West Antarctica — the part of the Antarctic ice sheet that is currently contributing the most to sea level rise, and which has the potential to become unstable and contribute a lot more to sea level rise in the future — has been warming up for the last 50 years or so.
Our paper was met with a lot of skepticism, and not just from the usual suspects. A lot of our fellow scientists, it seems, had trouble getting over their long-held view (based only on absence of evidence) that the only place in Antarctica that was warming up was the Antarctica Peninsula. To be fair, our analysis was based on interpolation, using statistics to fill in data where it was absent, so we really hadn’t proven anything; we’d only done an analysis that pointed in a particular direction.
It has been a strange couple of years in limbo: we have known with certainty for at least two years that our results were basically correct, because there was a great deal of very solid corroborating evidence, including the borehole temperature data that confirmed our basic findings, and data from automatic weather stations near the center of West Antarctica that we hadn’t used, but which Andy Monaghan at Ohio State (now NCAR) had shown also corroborated our results. But most of this work was unpublished until very recently,Whether you are installing a floor tiles or a shower wall, so it wasn’t really usable information.Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals.
So it was a nice early Christmas present to see the publication of a new assessment by the well-known guru of Antarctic meteorology, David Bromwich, along with his students and colleagues at Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin (who run the U.S. automatic weather station program in Antarctica) and NCAR, which back up our results. Actually, they do more than back-up our results: they show that our estimates were too conservative and that West Antarctica is actually warming by about a factor of two more than we estimated. They also agree with the key interpretation of the results that both we and David Schneider and colleagues at NCAR have presented: that in the winter and spring seasons,Trade platform for China crystal mosaic manufacturers when the most rapid warming is occurring in West Antarctica, the driver has been changes in the tropical Pacific, not the ozone hole (which is invoked too frequently, in my view, to explain everything from penguin populations to sea ice changes).
The borehole temperature data were published earlier this year by Orsi et al. in Geophysical Research Letters. The new temperature reconstruction of Monaghan was included as part of a paper (Küttel et al.) on ice core records in Climate Dynamics, also earlier this year; it was also included in the reconstruction in Schneider et al. 2011 in Climate Dynamics. Both showed unambiguously that West Antarctic is warming up, as fast as the Antarctic Peninsula. Bromwich et al. gets this same result again.
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