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IMG_2924_palm tree.jpg A palm tree growing in Stromness in the Orkney Isles, Northern Scotland, UK. The Orkney Isles lie on a similar latitude as Bergen in Norway and to southern Alaska, amazing then that palm trees grow. The only reason they do is because of the Gulf Stream which bathes the Orkneys in relatively warm water from further south, making the islands mainly snow and frost free. Climate change is slowing the Gulf Stream, as more fresh water from melting glaciers pours into the north Atlantic.
 
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IMG_2925_palm.jpg A palm tree growing in Stromness in the Orkney Isles, Northern Scotland, UK. The Orkney Isles lie on a similar latitude as Bergen in Norway and to southern Alaska, amazing then that palm trees grow. The only reason they do is because of the Gulf Stream which bathes the Orkneys in relatively warm water from further south, making the islands mainly snow and frost free. Climate change is slowing the Gulf Stream, as more fresh water from melting glaciers pours into the north Atlantic.
 
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IMG_6530 (1)_p.jpg Solar voltaic panels in new South Wales, Australia.
 
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IMG_0325_summer.jpg Pebbles spelling out summer on the beach at Cley, Norfolk, UK.
 
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IMG_9338_pensthrope.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9341_drift.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9346_pollination.jpg A bee gathering pollen in the Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9350_purple.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9354_flowers.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9355_borders.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9363_garden design.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9365_flower bed.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9370_planting scheme.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9371_drift.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_9372_pensthorpe.jpg The Millenium Garden at Pensthorpe nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, was designed by Piet Oudolf,
 
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IMG_0012_steel works.jpg A party of young people having a barbeque on the beach at Teesmouth near Hartlepool, with the Redcar steel works in the background.
 
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IMG_9612_low flying.jpg An ice fall on Red Screes in the Lake District, during a very cold snap in Novembver 2010 with an RAF low flying jet.
 
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IMG_0374_spindrift.jpg Wansfell on the side of Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District, looking like something out of the Antarctic with snow and spindrift being blown across the hill side, UK.
 
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IMG_0560_wind slab.jpg Looking towards the Angels Peak and Braeriach across the Lairig Ghru from the summit of Ben Macdui, on the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland, UK, in winter conditions, with sastrugi caused by wind drifted snow in the foreground.
 
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IMG_0562_windslab.jpg Looking towards the Angels Peak and Braeriach across the Lairig Ghru from the summit of Ben Macdui, on the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland, UK, in winter conditions, with sastrugi caused by wind drifted snow in the foreground.
 
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IMG_0564_sastrugi.jpg Looking towards the Angels Peak and Braeriach across the Lairig Ghru from the summit of Ben Macdui, on the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland, UK, in winter conditions, with sastrugi caused by wind drifted snow in the foreground.
 
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366W3926_balloon.jpg Fire and Ice The problem Man continues to burn fossil fuels here needlessly as Mont Blancs glaciers retreat rapidly
 
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IMG_1039_balloon.jpg A 2 MW Wind turbine producing renewable electricity in the grounds of the Eastman factory on the outskirts of Workington, Cumbria, UK. There are 2 of these turbines at the Eastman factory measuring 108 metres from ground to blade tip.
 
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IMG_2063_balloon.jpg Wind turbines at Lambrigg wind farm, owned by Npower, near Sedburgh, Cumbria, UK.
 
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IMG_5307_balloon.jpg A wind farm on agricultural land in West cornwall near St Ives, UK
 
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IMG_6128_balloon.jpg Gathega Dam supplying the water to power Guthega power station as part of the Snowy mountains hydro scheme, New South Wales, Australia.
 
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IMG_6530_hot air balloon.jpg Solar voltaic panels in new South Wales, Australia.
 
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IMG_9329_hot air balloon.jpg The Walney Offshore Windfarm project is located 15km off Barrow in Furness in Cumbria.  The project consists of Walney 1 and Walney 2 each with 51 turbines. When finished it will have 102 3.6 MW turbines, giving a total capacity of the Walney project of 367.2 MW, enough to power 320,000 homes. The rotor diameter of the turbines is 107m for Walney 1 and 120 m for Walney 2. The wind farm is owned and constructed by Dong Energy.
 
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366W5940_virgin.jpg An Air Greenland helicopter flies over the Jacobshavn glacier or Sermeq Kujalleq drains 7% of the Greenland ice sheet and is the largest glacier outside of Antarctica. It calves enough ice in one day to supply New York with water for one year. It is one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world at up to 40 metres per day (19 metres per day before 2002) and has also receeded rapidly (40 km since 1850) due to human induced climate change as temperatures have risen in Greenland by 9 degrees fahrenheit in the last 60 years. An underwater moraine at the mouth of the fjord grounds the largest icebergs causing a backlog of ice completely blocking the entire length of the fjord with ice.
 
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IMG_9590_icicle.jpg An ice fall on Red Screes in the Lake District, during a very cold snap in Novembver 2010.
 
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374_flare off.jpg A flare off of gas at a petrochemical works on Teeside, UK
 
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IMG_3225_hot air balloon.jpg The Abbey gardens on Tresco, one of the Scilly Isles, off South West Cornwall, UK, renowned for its tropical plants which are able to grow due to the Gulf Stream, or North Atlantic Drift. This is a warm ocean current which keeps the island warmer than they would otherwise be for their latitude, and also frost free.  Scientists have already recorded a slowing down of the Gulf Stream caused by climate change. As cold fresh water pours off the arctic ice sheets, it prevents the denser salty water from sinking, which is the start of the conveyor.
 
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