Climate change ‘will wreak havoc on Britain’s coastline by 2050’

[Barrett808]

On Benbecula, they know all too well that rising tides threaten the UK's coastline. For the 1,200 inhabitants of the small, low-lying island in the Outer Hebrides, the sea's encroachment is becoming a serious problem, especially on its western shores.

Impacts of Climate Change on Disadvantaged UK Coastal Communities, a report to be published tomorrow by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an influential thinktank, records how local people have seen the coastline retreat before their eyes in just a few years.

The threat posed by erosion has been exacerbated by the fact that the sea has taken material from the island's beaches that is normally used for constructing roads and buildings. But Benbecula is not alone: the report claims that rising sea levels are likely to have a "severe impact" on much of the UK's coastline by 2080. ...

Climate change ‘will wreak havoc on Britain’s coastline by 2050’

[rurallib]

1. in 2051 politicians all over the world will be asking why no one warned us

or falling all over each other to lay blame while continuing to do nothing.

[Democrats_win]

2. Fraud Street plans to bundle this land and sell it as a triple-A investment.