Dungeness in Danger
by Dennis LeggettAbout the Author
Dennis Leggett has lived within easy reach of Fairlight and the Pett coast of East Sussex for some forty years. He was a qualified teacher but is now retired. His interests led him to obtain an advanced Diploma in Rural Education with Reading University and a first class honours B.A. from the Open University. The degree is broadly based and contains credits in geomorphology, ecology and statistics.
About twenty years ago he created degree units under the auspices of Sussex University, one of which was a study of human ecology. Even then, long before the formation of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (the IPCC), the unchecked production of industrial carbon dioxide was questioned, as was the supposition that it would all be absorbed by the oceans of the world.
Now, upon the publication of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC which warns of greater and faster climate change including more frequent and violent storms, the author wishes to bring to public attention the vulnerable situation of the nuclear power stations at Dungeness.
Dec 18th 2001.next: SUMMARY