Thursday 3 June 2010

Disappearing Britain

Well Isle of Wight actually. I've just returned from walking the Isle of Wight coastal Path and was rather shocked.

An awful lot of it isn't there.

In my research for the walk I had heard that this was an area of coastal erosion but I had no idea just how bad the problem is.

Fences hover in mid air. Detours are not uusual. In places the sea is a mud colour where earth has plummeted down. Close to Freshwater bay, there is now only a part of a car park left. The rest is no more.

The cause is the weather. Just one more example of global warming. Amazingly there are still doubters.

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