Climate change confusion

From the BBC: "Climate change: Rising sea levels threaten 200,000 England properties".

The picture which they use nicely illustrates the point that they have clearly (and probably deliberately) missed:
Those buildings are clearly well above sea level and entirely unaffected by small sea level changes. The problem is that the cliffs are made of mud or sand and are prone to erosion. If they were solid granite cliffs, there wouldn't be a problem. But they aren't, there is, and there always has been.

You could argue that 'climate change' means more ferocious storms (something quite different to sea level rises), which speed up erosion. And I would refer you to the The Happisburgh Village Website:

1854 White’s Directory for this year reported that the sea had encroached 250 yards in the last 70 years at Happisburgh.

"Climate crisis splits Alaskan town in half"

From The Guardian:

Two years ago, Lisa Charles and her family moved from their lifelong home in the town of Newtok, Alaska, to Mertarvik, a 30-minute trip by boat or snow machine depending on the season.

Lisa is a member of one of the US’s first communities of climate transplants, though she is also Yup’ik, a mother of seven, a nonprofit employee, and a political volunteer. Melting permafrost has rapidly accelerated the erosion of the land under Newtok, bringing houses precariously close to the water’s edge.

Going by the photos in the article and Google maps, both the old village and the new village are sited on an archipelago of low-lying islands (or is it a peninsula riddled with streams, lakes, bays and inlets?), which itself is in the middle of an estuary with constantly changing coastlines/river flows; the new village (lower right hand corner) is even closer to the water's edge than the old one (top, centre):

So whatever the real reason for the move (I can't begin to guess), trying to move away from an eroding coastline is not it.

Yes, they are called "holiday caravans".

From the BBC:

In a new report, the Trust says the UK is "ignoring known risks of flood and erosion at the coast".

In England, just one in three coastal local authorities has long-term, informed plans in place, it claims. The Trust cites examples of adaptive "soft engineering" and innovation, such as creating flood banks and reed beds.

It even encourages the design and use of moveable buildings close to particularly vulnerable, quickly-eroding areas of the coast.

"Dozen homes rocket in value after the ones in front of them collapse into the sea"

From The Daily Mail:

It could be Britain's most profitable property collapse after a dozen houses, once worth over £6million, finally crept towards destruction after of one of the wettest years on record.

Residents on the other side of the road who originally did not have a sea view or direct access to the cliff tops in Sidmouth, Devon, are delighted that the crumbling coastline finally gave way.

John Badford, 62, who has owned 2 Cliff Road in the resort for 35 years is the street's second longest-standing resident. He says a pair of massive landslips in the space of a few weeks decimated the houses blocking his view - and he hopes that the erosion will now stop.

Sidmouth is part of the UNESCO Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, which is important for its sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks. And the landslides which have hit the cliffs there look set to provide owners of the surviving houses with significant windfall gains.

Mr Badford said: "Our houses are now much more sellable and mortgageable. The people who own them are laughing all the way to the bank. I was inspired to buy this sort of house after seeing the first Superman film. So, thanks for the hot tip, Lex Luthor!"

It would have been fun if this had happened a few miles further east

i.e. if this had happened here.

Famous Last Words

‘I imagine it will cost thousands to stabilise the rest of the cliff.’

See also Google Maps.