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366W2894.jpg Moor House National Nature Reserve in the North Pennines has been a site of scientific research going back 50 years. Weather records show a gradual warming over the last 50 years and a dramatic decline in winter snow cover. This has started to alter some of the specialised arctic plant communities and has also affected the carbon budget of the upland blanket peat bog. Warming temperatures have resulted in increased plant productivity and has lead to colonisation of once bare areas of the peat bog. This picture shows research by Dr Jeff Warburton who is measuring wind erosion on the peat bog. When the markers were first placed they were in bare peat but have subsequently been covered by recolonising cotton grass
 
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366W2908.jpg Spagnum moss growing in an upland blanket peat bog at Moor House inUpper Teesdale Cumbria UK. Sphagnum is one of the key plant species for the development of peat bogs that are starting to be affected by global warming.
 
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366W2910.jpg Spagnum moss growing in an upland blanket peat bog at Moor House inUpper Teesdale Cumbria UK. Sphagnum is one of the key plant species for the development of peat bogs that are starting to be affected by global warming.
 
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366W2810.jpg Moor House National Nature Reserve in the North Pennines has been a site of scientific research going back 50 years. Weather records show a gradual warming over the last 50 years and a dramatic decline in winter snow cover. This has started to alter some of the specialised arctic plant communities and has also affected the carbon budget of the upland blanket peat bog. Peat bogs should be carbon sinks, storing vast quantities of carbon, locked up in the bog as the plant communities die and decompose over time in the damp environment. It is rather worrying if these bogs are now starting to release carbon and methane as a result of warming temperatures
 
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366W2862.jpg A research project by Dr Jeff Warburton of Durham University measuring wind erosion on the upland blanket peat bog at Moor House Upper Teesdale. As global warming leads to an increase in stormy weather and associated high winds it is expected that wind erosion of the peat bog will increase
 
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366W2891.jpg Moor House National Nature Reserve in the North Pennines has been a site of scientific research going back 50 years. Weather records show a gradual warming over the last 50 years and a dramatic decline in winter snow cover. This has started to alter some of the specialised arctic plant communities and has also affected the carbon budget of the upland blanket peat bog. Warming temperatures have resulted in increased plant productivity and has lead to colonisation of once bare areas of the peat bog. This picture shows research by Dr Jeff Warburton who is measuring wind erosion on the peat bog. When the markers were first placed they were in bare peat but have subsequently been covered by recolonising cotton grass
 
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366W2898.jpg Ancient pine wood in an upland blanket peat bog at Moor House Upper Teesdale North Pennines Cumbria UK. Evidence of climate change in the past . This wood is preserved in the peat and grew between 5000 and 7000 years ago when the climate was warmer than it is today and more suited to tree growth at higher altitudes.
 
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366W2900.jpg Ancient pine wood in an upland blanket peat bog at Moor House Upper Teesdale North Pennines Cumbria UK. Evidence of climate change in the past . This wood is preserved in the peat and grew between 5000 and 7000 years ago when the climate was warmer than it is today and more suited to tree growth at higher altitudes.
 
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366W2906.jpg Sphagnum moss growing in an upland balnket peat bog at Moor House, Upper Teesdale Cumbria UK. Sphagnum is one of the key plant species for the development of peat, a carbon sink in bogs that is starting to be affected by global warming.
 
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366W2913.jpg Spagnum moss growing in an upland blanket peat bog at Moor House inUpper Teesdale Cumbria UK. Sphagnum is one of the key plant species for the development of peat bogs that are starting to be affected by global warming.
 
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366W0116.jpg a man rescues his pet dog from the January 2005 devastating floods on Warwick Road in Carlisle, after the river Eden burst its banks, Cumbria, UK
 
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IMG_7266_climate change_peat bog.jpg A peat bog on Fairfield in the Lake District National Park. Peat bogs hold huge reserves of carbon dioxide and the methane an even more efficient greenhouse gas. Recent evidence suggests that as the planet warms the equilibrium of many peat bogs is changeing from carbon sinks to carbon emmitters. A worrying example of a feedback loop that could help to rapidly accelerate the affects of climate change.
 
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IMG_7267_climate change_peat bog.jpg A peat bog on Fairfield in the Lake District National Park. Peat bogs hold huge reserves of carbon dioxide and the methane an even more efficient greenhouse gas. Recent evidence suggests that as the planet warms the equilibrium of many peat bogs is changeing from carbon sinks to carbon emmitters. A worrying example of a feedback loop that could help to rapidly accelerate the affects of climate change.
 
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IMG_7276_climate change_peat bog.jpg A peat bog on Fairfield in the Lake District National Park. Peat bogs hold huge reserves of carbon dioxide and the methane an even more efficient greenhouse gas. Recent evidence suggests that as the planet warms the equilibrium of many peat bogs is changeing from carbon sinks to carbon emmitters. A worrying example of a feedback loop that could help to rapidly accelerate the affects of climate change.
 
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IMG_7277_climate change_peat bog.jpg A peat bog on Fairfield in the Lake District National Park. Peat bogs hold huge reserves of carbon dioxide and the methane an even more efficient greenhouse gas. Recent evidence suggests that as the planet warms the equilibrium of many peat bogs is changeing from carbon sinks to carbon emmitters. A worrying example of a feedback loop that could help to rapidly accelerate the affects of climate change.
 
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IMG_7282_climate change_peat bog.jpg A peat bog on Fairfield in the Lake District National Park. Peat bogs hold huge reserves of carbon dioxide and the methane an even more efficient greenhouse gas. Recent evidence suggests that as the planet warms the equilibrium of many peat bogs is changeing from carbon sinks to carbon emmitters. A worrying example of a feedback loop that could help to rapidly accelerate the affects of climate change.
 
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