Nature notes

+The vast bulk of the Kittiwake population on Scarborough’s Castle cliff has now left for the winter, only a handful remain. They left around the 26th August last year if my blog is anything to go by. Perhaps they left earlier this year to beat another last minute quarantine.
 
+Something else to think about. I read today that the Greenland ice sheet is now melting faster than it is being replenished by new snow, a process which scientists say will not stop even if we stopped all CO2 emissions tomorrow. This is what is known as a tipping point, a probably irreversible trend which for various reasons will feed on itself, compounding the challenge of climate change. Still, it will open up some great real estate opportunities. Perhaps a Trump golf resort?