Kayakers and a stranded motorist in the floodwaters on the road at Storth on the Kent Estuary. Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images

The 2016 book by photojournalist Ashley Cooper documented the effects of climate change over 13 years and in more than 30 countries. Earlier this month, Cooper won the Green Apple award for environmental best practice at a ceremony at the UK House of Commons...

Cooper is planning to set up a website, I Commit, which aims to get citizens of the world to lower their carbon footprint and upload their own images of climate impacts. Here are his images of how extreme weather has affected the UK in recent years

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  Whitehaven Harbour being battered by storm waves, Cumbria, UK.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  An RAF Sea King helicopter prepares to drop salvage experts onto a ship washed ashore off Blackpool. The MS Riverdance was lost in 2008 when a huge wave shifted the vehicle cargo on the decks, causing the ship to list violently. As climate change takes hold, more damage is occurring as the weather becomes more violent.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  In early December 2015, storm Desmond crashed into the UK, producing the UK’s highest ever 24-hour rainfall total. It flooded the Lyth Valley in Cumbria, submerging many farms and houses.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  A caravan park that contained around 30 static caravans in Cumbria. All of the vans were damaged and many destroyed when the River Eden flooded as a result of storm Desmond.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  Storm Desmond completely destroyed Pooley Bridge, which had spanned the River Eamont below Ullswater since 1764.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  On 11 November 2010 a deep low-pressure system crossed the Atlantic and slammed into the north-west of England. Winds of 100mph battered the coast and caused around £1m worth of damage to the Blackpool illuminations.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  A young man cycles through floodwaters in Toll Bar, South Yorkshire, UK.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  Kayakers and a stranded motorist in the floodwaters on the road at Storth on the Kent Estuary.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  A collapsed coastal road between Skipsea and Ulrome on Yorkshire’s coast.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  Protests against Cuadrilla, which applied to frack for shale gas in several sites in Lancashire.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  Celebrities including the actor Peter Capaldi and the former BBC weatherman Michael Fish join the ‘wave’ climate change protest ahead of the Copenhagen summit in 2009.
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  Huge blades to be used at Walney offshore windfarm, Cumbria.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  Workers prepare to tow a Pelamis P2 wave energy generator on the dockside at Lyness on Hoy, Orkney Isles.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  The Krakken, a jack-up barge, constructing the wind turbines of the Walney offshore windfarm. It is using a specialist cradle to lift a turbine blade into place.
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  A geothermal energy project by Newcastle University involves drilling 6,000 feet beneath the old Newcastle Brown Brewery to reach waters of 80C, which will be used to heat a shopping centre and university buildings.
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  The new floating solar farm being connected on Godley Reservoir in Hyde, Manchester.

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

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  ‘Technicians fitting solar photo voltaic panels to my house roof in Ambleside, Cumbria. Although the Lake District is renowned for its wet, cloudy climate, with Ambleside receiving some 70 inches of rain annually, these panels generate three-quarters of my electricity needs.’

  Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

photojournalist Ashley Cooper

Thursday 23 November 2017 11.54 GMT

source: https://www.theguardian.com/international

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