Coastal erosion 'may not be stopped'

[Moose423956]

I live 3 miles from the sea. 100 years ago this spot was 3 miles from the sea. A 100,000 years ago it was under the sea. 200,000 years ago, it was under ice and 1,000,000 years ago it was a desert.

Not trying to disprove global warming, but plate tectonics plays a huge part in this...

Not wishing to poo poo your argument, but plate tectonics does take slightly longer to have an effect than rising (or falling) sea levels.

[TimberWolf]

If it were any part of London, there'd be appeals, emergency taxing, media frenzy, etc. And there's the clue... the biggest threat to London is a big surge down the North Sea, washing up the Thames, and causing devastation. So, what should be done: (a) Build defences to ameleorate such a surge (N.B. this option is expensive and requires planning and intelligence), or (b) Allow the east coast (north of London) to erode, thus widening the surge path, and so taking a fair whack of energy out of it, as well as creating (as a side effect) salt marshes which act as sponges, with the small, piffling cost of displaced folk who don't live in London? Go on, have a guess.

(c) Close and weld shut the tidal barriers, and help turn London into a wetland area. Cost: £1.50

[Bob Dalek]

If it were any part of London, there'd be appeals, emergency taxing, media frenzy, etc. And there's the clue... the biggest threat to London is a big surge down the North Sea, washing up the Thames, and causing devastation. So, what should be done: (a) Build defences to ameleorate such a surge (N.B. this option is expensive and requires planning and intelligence), or (b) Allow the east coast (north of London) to erode, thus widening the surge path, and so taking a fair whack of energy out of it, as well as creating (as a side effect) salt marshes which act as sponges, with the small, piffling cost of displaced folk who don't live in London? Go on, have a guess.

[Flubster]

I live 3 miles from the sea. 100 years ago this spot was 3 miles from the sea. A 100,000 years ago it was under the sea. 200,000 years ago, it was under ice and 1,000,000 years ago it was a desert.

Not trying to disprove global warming, but plate tectonics plays a huge part in this...

[EternalOptimist]

Have you not seen Al Gore's movie "an inconveniant truth"?
The whole World will be flooded like in "the day after tommorow".
All countries will become tropical palm fringed islands.
Holland will be 100 metres under-water.

thank the lord we are doing so well in the rowing and sailing. At least the Brits will survive. The Dutch can grow webbed feet and gills

[ace00]

The sediment drifts over to Holland. Holland will be 300 miles wide.

Have you not seen Al Gore's movie "an inconveniant truth"?
The whole World will be flooded like in "the day after tommorow".
All countries will become tropical palm fringed islands.
Holland will be 100 metres under-water.

[Paddy]

So will England only be about 10 miles wide in 100 years

The sediment drifts over to Holland. Holland will be 300 miles wide.

[foritisme]

So will England only be about 10 miles wide in 100 years

[BrilloPad]

"Parts of north-east Norfolk and Suffolk are most immediately at risk, he said."

Where abouts are these places? If they disappear what difference does it make?

[Diver]

People living on Britain's vanishing coastlines have been told there is nothing they can do to stop their homes from being lost to the sea.

The new head of the Environment Agency says coastal erosion means stretches of land are doomed - and evacuation plans should be drawn up.

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Anybody here got beach side property?