England coastal erosion (shrinkflation)

"AN interactive map has shown how several areas of south Essex could be underwater by the end of the decade.

Created by an independent organisation of scientists and journalists, collectively known as Climate Central, the map show areas of the country that could be under sea level by the end of 2030."

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/24... interactive map has shown,by the end of 2030.

 

"Members of a golf club say they are "very concerned" after coastal erosion caused sections of turf to fall into the sea.

Alnmouth Village Golf Club is the oldest nine hole links golf course in England and its low lying location next to the coast means it has often been flooded.

But this most recent impact of the North Sea has seen damage to a part of the course which has not been affected before.

Club secretary Ian Simpson said: "We will eventually lose the golf course if nothing is done."

"We are very concerned and need to look at new ways of dealing with it," he added."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gevv14nrwo

 

"Built in the 18th century, pretty Cliff Farm was named after the spectacular views over the coast several hundred feet away.

Now, Cliffhanger would be more accurate - after dramatic landslides left the former farmhouse teetering over a 150ft precipice.

Owner Steve McCormack, who only bought the property five years ago, had to evacuate the historic property after the latest cliff fall.

The three-bedroom house in Trimingham, Norfolk, will be demolished by the local council in the next few weeks to prevent it collapsing onto the beach below.

Approached by the Mail, he was still in shock at the loss of his £132,000 investment, which he bought in an auction.

‘I can’t think straight. I can’t talk now. I need to try to sort this out,’ he said, even though there is no solution to his desperate predicament."

 

Some actual fitba content at last:

"* blessed Fulham with great geography," the Premier League club's owner Shahid Khan said in 2021 as he discussed his vision for Craven Cottage's new £80 million stand on the north bank of the River Thames.

Once it is finally completed next season, the Riverside Stand and its eye-catching Sky Deck will offer fans rooftop views of the London skyline and "experiential food and drink pop-ups." Images of the lavish construction released by the club in March also depict a rooftop swimming pool. There is, though, one glaring issue with the development: the stadium is predicted to be underwater by 2050.

Fulham are by no means the only team predicted to suffer as sea levels rise in line with global temperatures because of climate change. Almost one in four stadiums in the top four divisions of English football will experience total or partial flooding within the next quarter of a century, according to the report "Playing Against the Clock: Global Sport, the Climate Emergency and the Case for Rapid Change," published by the Rapid Transition Alliance in 2020.

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/sto...-change-threat-flooded-stadiums-too-hot-train

 

"The village on the English coastline is on the brink of being swallowed up by the sea.

The extent of coastal erosion threatening the coastline near Alnmouth in Northumberland village evident in stark new images. The village, which has been battered by a series of storms over the winter and in recent years, is seeing its coastline gradually erode away.


Alnmouth Village Golf Club, one of England's oldest golf courses, was recently hit by a storm that caused chunks of turf to fall into the sea due to coastal erosion. This has sparked concerns about the future of the nine-hole course, which dates back to 1869. Beachgoers may have noticed items once buried now exposed along the coastline, including WW2 defence cement blocks. Tank traps, previously partially or entirely hidden in the dunes, are now visible."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/images-coastal-erosion-show-uk-32670541

 

FFS - sewage in rivers first and now this to be added to the problem.


"On the banks of the Dee Estuary, separating Wales and England, scientists are concerned about what at first glance appear to be ordinary sand dunes.

But, as environmental scientist Dr Alex Riley scratches carefully away at their surface, an “unnatural” grey powder begins to appear.

“You can see over the years this has oxidised and looks natural,” he explains.

“But it’s reading on the meter that it has the same pH as household bleach.”

The dog walkers and bird watchers who pass by the estuary either side of Flintshire and Merseyside appear unaware they are walking on chemical waste.

This site is one of hundreds of landfills that scientists fear are now leaking onto beaches and into the sea.

Thousands of rubbish dumps span the UK’s coastline, many containing materials that were buried long before records needed to be kept.

According to Dr Riley, it is only in the past few years that scientists have started to record where they are and what might be in them.

In Wales alone, a recent report, external found there were more than 260 coastal landfill sites currently at risk of leaking into the marine environment, as a result of coastal erosion, flooding and climate change.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl40ml5yyz5o



The chemical powder, which has the same pH as bleach, is mixing into the estuary.

Dr Riley said household landfill could be quite obvious when it began to erode, with plastic bottles and jars from the 1950s and 1960s easily noticed by people.

However, he said the majority of chemical and industrial waste would not be so clear and urged people to keep a distance and wash their hands if they were ever unsure.

At the more severe end, Dr Riley said compounds like arsenic and lead had “the potential to leech out of these wastes and into the environment”.

Natural Resources Wales has been working to estimate how many sites already pose a risk to the environment.

Last year, NRW engineers found 89% of Welsh landfill sites had the potential to release chemical waste.

Estuaries and reefs were deemed to be most at risk from landfill waste leakage. Caves, mudflats and sandbanks were also deemed higher risk areas.

 

"Flood defences near the A12 at Benacre sluice, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, are close to being breached, with 37 homes and farmland also at risk.

Six thousand tonnes of rock have been brought in by barge to shore up the area.

The work by the Environment Agency is to safeguard the area until a planned flood management project in the autumn.

The Environment Agency said the final cost of the emergency works was not yet confirmed but was expected to be several million pounds.

If the current flood barrier failed, there is a risk the A12 could flood twice a day at high tide, sometimes to depths of 4ft (1.2m)."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-68921789

 

Damaged property alert!

"A popular beach has been shut down this weekend after a cliff fall.

Ladram Bay beach, near Sidmouth, Devon, had to be shuttered as a precaution following the incident in the early hours of this morning. Thankfully, no one was hurt during the plunge at around 7am. A large amount of rocks cut away from the cliff and smashed into boats and paddle boards lined up along the beach below.


Barriers have since been put up along all access roads to the beach to stop anyone from going on it. Pictures and videos of the cliff fall sent in to DevonLive show the extent of the cliff fall including larges rocks hanging precariously above and likely to come down too in the near future. A spokesperson for the holiday park said the beach would remain closed to its guests and members of the public until the safety of the iconic cliffs and Jurassic coastline had been assessed."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bank-holiday-beach-horror-cliff-32740821

 

Bold prediction (video in the link):

"UK banks are going to go bust because of climate change. Now, that's a big claim to make, but I think it's right. And let me explain.

When you borrow money from a bank, at least when you borrow a lot of money from a bank, the bank will normally want what they call security from you. In other words, they want some form of guarantee that you can repay.

Well, you don't wholly blame them, do you? But let's explain the most common form of security that they ask for. It's your house, or if you're a business, it's your business property. In fact, 85 per cent of all loans made by UK banks are for the purchase of houses or business properties, or are at the very least secured on the value of houses and properties.

So why are banks going to go bust because of climate change? Well, because as a very senior risk officer of a very large UK bank explained to me not so very long ago, the vast majority of the properties that they are using for the purposes of security could be underwater in the next 30 years.

They know, for example, that the Thames barrier is not going to protect London from flooding. It's just not tall enough.

They also know that if you live in the area of the country where I do, which is in the Fens, just south of the Wash in Norfolk, there's a real risk that you will be flooded at some time over the next 30 years. Well, unless you happen to live in the Isle of Ely, as I do, which is a hundred feet above sea level - in which case, you'll just be back on an island again.

They know that means that Cambridge will be underwater.

It means that Bedford will be underwater."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/06/uk-banks-will-go-bust-because-of-climate-change/

 

This really is very worrying:

"According to the University of Plymouth, 28 per cent of the English and Welsh coastline is experiencing erosion of more than 10 cm per year, and predictions by Climate Central show that by 2040, Hull and Skegness will be below annual flood levels, as will parts of Blackpool, Peterborough and Lincoln. That’s just 16 years from now.

A worrying number of historic landfills are already exposed and leaching. I witnessed these myself in Suffolk in May 2024, as part of the Coastline Runner initiative, and last year in Lincolnshire and Northumberland. The pollution directly around the historic landfills is shocking, especially where they are situated along relatively unpolluted coastlines.

The exact contents of these landfills are unknown, but the assumption is that many will contain toxic substances, such as asbestos, mercury, PVC, acids, lead, home cleaning chemicals, and even radioactive material. Even those that do not contain overtly toxic substances can have high levels of metals and chemicals, from the breakdown of the complex plastics and electronics that they contain. In 1999, the EU’s Landfill Directive (enshrined in UK law in 2001) ensured that new waste disposal practices were controlled and monitored. Prior to this, although a regime was in place to licence and categorise the waste in landfills, little was done to mitigate the potential environmental and public health risks. For example, leachate containment was not required, so the landfill contents could (and still do) leach freely into the surrounding soil and groundwater.

Link to the full article:

https://www.the-ies.org/analysis/le...ity of,of Blackpool, Peterborough and Lincoln.

 

Video in this link:

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/202...village-battling-to-slow-down-coastal-erosion

Coastal erosion: The Norfolk village making 'one last stand' to save some homes and businesses

People living in a village that is slowly falling into the sea are making "one last stand" to save some of the homes from eroding underneath their feet.

A new campaign group called "Save Happisburgh" wants to find a way of saving the homes and businesses in the Norfolk village that are threatened by coastal erosion.

Residents say although it's too late for some properties, they believe more can be done to save the rest of the village.

Bryony Nierop-Reading's bungalow was claimed by the tide in 2013.

She said: "It’s frightening when you look at how far out that was."It just shows you how much land has gone. The same amount of agricultural land has gone right along the cliffs as well which as a country we can't afford to lose."



Sarah Greenwood, from the Save Happisburgh Campaign said: "If the lighthouse and the church go within my lifetime I'd be absolutely devastated.

"We can't stop the erosion but what would be nice is if we can slow it down enough so that people like Bryony aren't suddenly made homeless.

"It will all go eventually but I think we need to keep it for as long as possible."

 

"Fears raised major route into Newquay could be cut off due to cliff erosion
The town council has written to Cornwall Council calling for an urgent meeting"


"FEARS have been raised a major route into Newquay could be eroded away unless urgent action is taken to stabilise Whipsiderry cliff.

Save Whipsiderry Cliffs and Newquay Town Council are concerned the B3276 coastal road could be in jeopardy within the next two years due to the current rate of erosion


The town council has written to Cornwall Council calling for an urgent meeting to hear what the unitary authority plans are to safeguard the vital road following a call for action from the campaign group.

Assurances are also sought to ensure a lockable gate Cornwall Council wants to install at the top of the beach steps does not become a permanent fixture."

The full article here:
https://www.voicenewspapers.co.uk/n...-could-be-cut-off-due-to-cliff-erosion-695672

 

West Bay could be under water by 2030, projections claim

"LARGE parts of West Bay and west Dorset could be underwater by the end of the decade.

A new interactive map has shown the areas of the UK which could be underwater in just six years.

Created by an independent organisation of scientists and journalists, collectively known as Climate Central, the map shows areas of the country that could be under sea level by the end of 2030."



"The map shows that nearly all of West Bay could be underwater, including the harbour, the beach, most of Forty Foot Way and West Bay Road.

The at-risk areas continue on either side of the River Brit, into parts of Watton and the Melplash Showground.

Whilst West Bay would be the worst hit area across the region, there are lots of towns and villages across the coast that could lose key landmarks and heritage sites in the projections.

In Abbotsbury the swannery would be under serious threat whilst the south west coastal path could be washed away along the coastline."



Link to the full article:

https://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/24517414.west-bay-water-2030-projections-claim/

 

When the problem hit the rich (Eastburn area) - help (though temporary) will be found and funded (also by the Scottish taxpayers):

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24653668.plans-move-tonnes-sand-save-sussex-town-flooding/




"Thousands of tonnes of sand could be moved by lorry to fight the forces of nature along the Sussex shore.


The Environment Agency (EA) wants to move sand and shingle which is swept eastwards from Holywell, Eastbourne, to Cooden Beach, near Bexhill.

The EA estimates some 30,000 cubic square metres of sand and shingle are swept eastwards through the tide and stormy weather.

It said the plans will protect 18,000 homes and businesses in the Eastbourne area.

The Met Office has warned of sea levels rising by at least a metre by the end of the century, so the EA has created the plans to defend 15 kilometres of coast on either side of Eastbourne from flooding and erosion."