I DONT BELIEVE IT !!!!!!

[Sir Neil]

Originally Posted by AngelBlue

Because I know full well it's changed in real life especially on the east coast with all the erosion. And further than that , the little funny "sticky out bit" on the right of the map , about in the middle.

You mean the Holderness coast? That’s well-known for its coastal erosion. I remember around 30 years ago, a hotel falling into the sea overnight.

[AngelBlue]

Originally Posted by Sir Neil

You mean the Holderness coast? That’s well-known for its coastal erosion. I remember around 30 years ago, a hotel falling into the sea overnight.

Hi Neil...yes along there . That hotel I seem to re-call was Scarborough , but yes anywhere along there . Further down the coast whole campsites have been lost to the sea. ( In fact whole villages over time).
The bit I'm thinking of more specifically is that funny appendix bit that juts out between the sea and the Humber estuary.
Spurn point.
Oh but was such a beautiful wild haven that you could drive several miles to get down to a car park , where you could walk on the beach all around "end" of that land. It was surrounded by water and was a lovely tranquil day out.
But it virtually all got washed away a few years ago. You can still go down to it but not by car anymore. You have to go on foot.
And with all the land along that coastline that is lost , on the "map" , that little strip must be virtually non existent now.
Sorry, don't know if I'm making any sense. Probably not LOL..

[Sir Neil]

Originally Posted by AngelBlue

Further down the coast whole campsites have been lost to the sea. ( In fact whole villages over time).
The bit I'm thinking of more specifically is that funny appendix bit that juts out between the sea and the Humber estuary.
Spurn point.

Yes I have sometimes wondered about Spurn Head. Even now on Google Maps, it looks quite precarious, as if it’s just a small strip of land hanging onto existence.

That part of the coastline has always been pretty soft and vulnerable to erosion, but I am still a bit skeptical of predictions which have been made. Mainly because scientists and ‘experts’ don’t actually know the true ‘rates’ of things.

For instance, I recall watching John Craven’s Newsround back in 1988, in which they were talking about a charity called After The Flood. Its main premise being that climate change was producing coastal erosion at an alarming rate, and they drew a map of what Britain could look like in 2000. On this map, accelerated coastal erosion would mean that Blackpool would become an island and Doncaster and Peterborough would become coastal resorts. Even with all of the stuff we have going on right now, this prediction is still nowhere near correct.

Very simplified for children to understand, I know, but still drawn up by scientists, and still calculated with rates of erosion which are wildly fanciful.