{"id":255513,"date":"2023-05-01T20:44:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255513"},"modified":"2023-05-01T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:44:38","slug":"norfolks-climate-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255513","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk\u2019s \u201cClimate Refugees\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t lloyd jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our hopeless media is conflating local erosion problems in Norfolk with absurd forecasts of sea level rise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Across the country ordinary Britons like Tim Clarke, 56 and Marie Howlett, 41 are facing financial ruin and losing their homes if they can\u2019t find a way to win an impossible and uninsurable battle against the sea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple are some of the last remaining inhabitants of the coastal enclave of Hemsby, Norfolk \u2013 a once thriving tourist spot that has now all but been condemned due to the constant coastal erosion that claimed five homes last month alone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They and other residents of the doomed postcode claim they are fighting both the elements and their local councils, who say they are powerless to stop the process of the erosion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim bought his two-bed detached bungalow for \u00a360,000 eighteen months ago, fulfilling a dream to live by the coast, having moved from Lincolnshire.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pair live with their daughter Isabella, 10 and their house is now the last one with road access since the March storm which claimed several homes and eight feet of coastline.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research by climate action group One Home predicts that by 2100, over 2000 properties worth \u00a3584million will tumble off cliffs and into the sea with no possible course of action that will avert it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if they\u2019re not falling into the sea, a gloomy report published last year by flood expert Paul Sayers suggests they\u2019ll soon be swallowed by it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Climate Change Committee report, nearly 200,000 properties in England may have to be abandoned due to rising sea levels by 2050.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers said the country could face around 14 inches (35cm) of sea level rise compared to historic levels within 30 years and is nearly certain to see close to 3ft (1m) of advancement by the end of the century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This rate would scrub parts of North Norfolk, Kent and Cornwall off the map.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/property\/article-12024625\/The-areas-flash-floods-rising-rivers-crumbling-coasts-mean-home-insurance-IMPOSSIBLE.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile the ludicrous Guardian goes one stage further, describing Hemsby\u2019s inhabitants as\u00a0climate-crisis refugees<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/apr\/03\/losing-your-home-is-a-massive-thing-how-the-climate-crisis-came-to-norfolk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we should all know by now, this same coastal erosion has been taking place in Norfolk for thousands of years; it has nothing to do with climate change, as the BGS Regional Geologist explained just last month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hemsby coastal erosion: the scale of the transformational challenge around the coastlines of England and Wales<\/a><\/blockquote>