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SECRET GARDENER
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“ART IS THE ATTENTION WE PAY TO THE WHOLENESS OF THE WORLD.” Guy Davenport
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I prefer to use this figure from www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/prod... showing the record from satellite altimetry, as it highlights the overall acceleration in global mean sea-level rise. A lot of the short term wiggles are due to year-to-year fluctuations in snowfall on the ice sheets.
December 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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It may seem a bit non-intuitive, but ice loss from Greenland will affect Australian coasts more than ice loss from Antarctica. This is because removal of a large mass of ice from any location distorts the Earth's gravity field so that the biggest effect on sea-level is in distant regions.
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
How utterly lovely.
No wonder you are as you are.
December 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Anyway, it is rather disappointing there is so little literature on old growth forests. The fact there is so much confusion and uncertainty on this issue is disappointing, and I would say largely a framing issue based on the way forest modelling and reporting work.

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December 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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2/ For more info and maps of who owns the peat soils in the Fens - and in the English uplands - see my investigation 'Who Owns Our Carbon?', here: whoownsengland.org/2021/11/15/w...
Who owns our carbon?
A new investigation by Who Owns England has found that 1 million acres of England’s deep peat, our single largest carbon sink, is owned by just 124 landowners. That amounts to 60% of England&#…
whoownsengland.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM