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Wednesday, December 31st, 2014

Almost 7,000 UK properties to be sacrificed to rising seas

Author:     Damian Carrington
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Sunday 28 December 2014 09.00 EST
 Link: Almost 7,000 UK properties to be sacrificed to rising seas
Stephan:   The U.K. is an island nation that is beginning to face the reality of sea rise and extreme weather. Here is an initial assessment of what the future holds for them. The same situation will obtain throughout coastal America, but few in government are talking about the impact yet.
Collapsed houses lie on the beach after a storm surge in Hemsby, eastern England, 6 December 2013. Parts of England’s east coast, from Yorkshire to Essex are vulnerable to stronger storms and rising sea levels due to climate change. Credit: Darren Staples/Reuters

Collapsed houses lie on the beach after a storm surge in Hemsby, eastern England, 6 December 2013. Parts of England’s east coast, from Yorkshire to Essex are vulnerable to stronger storms and rising sea levels due to climate change.
Credit: Darren Staples/Reuters

Almost 7,000 homes and buildings will be sacrificed to the rising seas around England and Wales over the next century, according to an unpublished Environment Agency (EA) analysis seen by the Guardian. Over 800 of the properties will be lost to coastal erosion within the next 20 years.

The properties, worth well over £1bn, will be allowed to fall into the sea because the cost of protecting them would be far greater. But there is no compensation scheme for homeowners to enable them to move to a safer location.

In December 2013, a […]

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