As someone who lives in the Borough of Great Yarmouth, about five miles inland from the village of Hemsby. I moved to the area in 1987, and although there has always been erosion happening, it was longshore drift stripping sand off the beaches and moving it south. One thing that happened is that further north they did some works to slow the sand coming off the beaches, and moving south. What this seems to have done is accelerate the removal of the beach at Hemsby, as it's no longer being replaced by the stuff coming down the coast. also in the same time period as we have been losing huge amounts off of the Hemsby, a few miles down the coast we have had a new "Outer Harbour" at Great Yarmouth, and this also seems to have had some effects. The beaches, and dunes at Yarmouth are actually growing. Yarmouth pier was once able to have sea going steamers dock at the end of the pier. Now the sea barely makes it to the end of the pier at high tide. Then they built a new bridge at the end of the "Inner Harbour" This was completed at the end of 2023. since the completion of the works it's had a very serious effect on the water levels in my local river, which is tidal, even 20 odd miles from where it empty's into the sea in Yarmouth. All of a sudden the average water level in the river is a foot or so higher, as it seems the tidal flow rates have been affected at the outflow of the river system. A foot might not seem much, except the river was often within a foot or so of breaking the banks and flooding the riverside chalets. Chalets just like the ones in Hemsby that aren't considered homes. Oh there are flood defences to stop wider areas getting flooded, just they were built behind the chalets.
Oh wow! That’s some excellent insight! So the natural flow of sand was slowed North of Hemsby and keeping it from being replenished. It’s a much more complicated system than I realized. Thanks for that!
@@JJLAReacts As already noted, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston are growing. 10 or so miles south in Suffolk is a town called Lowestoft. So called because it has the lowest oft tide. It is the most easterly point of the UK. In the 1970s the tide occasionally reached the sea defences, in Great Yarmouth, but now it barely touches the piers that stretched out into the sea.
The storms we get are usually the tail end of huge tropical storms and hurricanes that started off in the gulf of Mexico the Caribbean and Florida. They lock on to the gulf stream, usually it's just rain. But every so often they come as powerful storms.
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I read somewhere that those islands in Dubai are not stable and are slowly sinking back into the water…especially the islands that have been dredged into the shape of the world. The Dubai authorities are constantly having to top up the sand and they were debating on whether to build anything on them.😬 But this was some time ago so they may have solved the issues by now! 🤷🏽♀️
Ohhhh, that actually makes a lot of sense. Now that you mention it, I do remember hearing that it was taking a lot longer than expected - maybe that's why.
you should check out the story Llanwddyn it was a village purposely flooded to create a reservoir called lake vyrnwy (the village is still intact below the lake)
@@JJLAReacts If you're checking that out, then you need to look into "Tryweryn". Welsh village that was lost when they flooded the valley to make a reservoir for Liverpool. It's notable because while every Welsh MP voted against it, there are numerically more English MPs, of course, as it's a bigger place and they forced it through, against all local Welsh opposition. It was a major event that ignited the move for Welsh devolution - which Wales now has, with its own Welsh Parliament that has Welsh issues devolved to its control from Westminster (UK-wide issues remain at Westminster). There's a famous bit of graffiti near the site that reads "Cofiwch Dryweryn" - which is "Remember Tryweryn" in English. The City of Liverpool actually issued an official apology. They recognised that it shouldn't have happened against the will of the local people. But the UK Parliament has never acknowledged nor apologised for its part. There's been a lot of that. Wales is hilly - it has abundant natural resources to mine, so much rain for reservoirs. England has been exploiting it - and giving very little back in return to Wales for centuries. (Actually, I just checked and there's a video by FaultLine - who did this video today - on the subject of Tryweryn. Video title: "Why England Erased This Welsh Village".) Like, there are good historical reasons why you should never call a Welshman "English". Plundered resources, multiple deliberate attempts to kill off the language, left to be the poorest and sickest part of the UK. Another video you need to see is Dafydd Iwan singing "Yma o Hyd" (Still Here) before the Welsh rugby team played. Even as an American, you will have never seen as much raw patriotism in one place. The lyrics tell the tale of the trials and tribulations of the Welsh over the centuries, but the chorus declares "despite the worst of everyone and everything, we're still here. We're still here". (But it's the right type of patriotism. In the midst of all that singing, you can also see Ukrainian flags being waved as well, to show support. The Welsh understand: "Patriotism is the love of one's country, NEVER the hatred of another".)
Seconded - though this same channel (Faultline) has a video about another Welsh village that the English flooded (Capel Celyn). It's called "Why England Erased This Welsh Village" and it's got some great journalism and production value, just like this one.
Poulaphouca Reservoir in Ireland is a similar story. The valley was flooded in 1940 to create a reservoir for water supply and hydro-electricity. The valley had contained 76 houses prior to its flooding.
Norfolk born and raised, we spent every summer holiday in a chalet on the Marrams in the 70's and had a fantastic time running around the beautiful dunes! It's very sad to see what has happened to it since and frustrating to hear how residents are getting so little support. I now live in the Netherlands and we all have to pay a water tax for the protection of the country from floods. I hope that there will be more done to help protect the Norfolk coastline in the future, like it is over here in the Netherlands. The Dutch did most of the design in Dubai, I'm sure it can be done in Hemsby too!
Back in 2008 when I was in college, we learned about the coastal erosion of the Holderness coast (which was mentioned in this video.) I wonder just how much of that coastline has been lost since 2008 and if any towns have been lost since then. Anyway, to answer your question about them just getting more sand, part of the problem is that there are no beaches because of long shore drift, a phenomena where sand is carried along the coast by the waves which always pushes the sand diagonally onto the beach, drags it out straight and then pushes it back on diagonally again, meaning eventually, all the sand moves along the beach. Without something to catch the sand and stop it from moving too far, the beach eventually is lost. And this is the case with the holderness coast.
Learning Geography in the early 1970's this was part of the standard curriculum as just another physical geography event. We had not even heard of climate change back then.
I live a few miles south of Hemsby, a town called Gorleston. I swear we are getting the remains of Hemsby, our beach has gotten so much bigger over the years
I live in California. We have rock defences along with Scratby, but we lose our beach in some winters. Next door, Caister has the rock defences protecting their beach. I think Happisburgh has it even worse. (For non Brits.. its pronounced Haysborugh) If the let the waters breach at either Hemsby or just north of Winterton then we will become an island the sea curls round us and inundates the land to Breydon Water. That would leave us on a sand cliff with water eating towards us from all directions. It took 8000 years to build this coast, and it will take 200 years to destroy it.
I used to go to the Isle of Wight off the south coast . We went to a Theme Park called Black Gang . There was lots of parts of rides that had fallen down the cliff face. When we left there was a detour as part of the road had fallen down the cliff. A Very adventurous holiday .
We've been to Hemsby for many holidays, in the last 5 years, metres have disappeared. The lifeboat couldn't get out as the slope washed away. It depends on tourism. So many homes have fallen, or had to be demolished. It's so sad, as the government won't help fund flood defences
But sadly it's not cost effective think of Britain being like a cake with a hard center surrounded by sand. The Netherlands are sheltered by the mass of the British Isles to the West and Continental Europe to East. MALTA is also struggling being a small Island with no protection from nearby Countries.
I just got back off a holiday in East Yorkshire (just above where this is set). In Withernsea (part of the Holderness coast), there's a plaque to a 13th century Church that was destroyed by the sea in the 16th century. That church would be around a mile into the North Sea if it still stood. Huge chunks of the east coast are just being eroded and there's almost nothing that can be done about it.
I live on an island in the South East of England and we lose parts of the Island every year , the same happens here as it does in Hemsby and people are losing their houses , its so sad , i feel for the people living on the edge.
Hurricanes may not be able to form in the waters around the UK due to our latitude however they can and do travel to the UK hurricanes aren't very common in the UK unlike storms with gale force winds .
As an addendum I'll just mention that "Domesday" is the Middle English spelling. Doomsday isn't so much wrong as it is a translation into Modern English.
I live 21 miles from Hemsby near Lowestoft in Suffolk, the most easterly point of Great Britain. It is very sad to see this happening so near to where I live. Some villages have been lost in Suffolk to. Dunwich just down the road from where I live has lost a lot of their village to the sea. Some people say at night you can hear the ghostly ring of the village curch bell from under the sea.
We're also having an increased number of cliff falls in the South of England in recent months - again with properties finding themselves perched on the edge of cliffs, when they had previously been 100 yards or so from the top of the cliffs. The main road along the south side of the Isle of Wight is going to fall into the sea sometime soon.
The east coast of the U.K. suffered a terrible storm and excessively high tide in 1953 .It did awful damage.There is a film about it if you google .Itshows how vulnerable our east coast is.
Here In cornwall we get raging Atlantic storms all the way thru autumn/winter but the winds are def picking up earlier than normal - we lost some fencing in August for heavens sake! Cornwall gets absolutely battered, and we do have erosion - several beaches have had to be closed because of rock falls. The storms are becoming more fierce, more frequent, and starting earlier in the season.
It has been found that putting up defenses just causes movement of the destruction to move to another area, so has been basically stopped due to cost really.
@SgtSteel1 It has accelerated over the last 50 years and more recently in the last 20 years it is far more evident not a small thing that the jet stream shifts.
You can see evidence of the rising of the land on the North West coast of England. The sea goes out further and further. When the tide is out, it can take 10 mins or longer to go paddle in the sea..
You mention the UAE's artificial islands, but don't forget that NYC has been building up its shores since it was founded by the Dutch in 1624. It's hard to get exact numbers, but one recent estimate suggested: "Lower Manhattan south of City Hall is about 50% bigger than it was before the Dutch arrived." That reclaimed land will likely be the first to go when the seas' rising becomes significant.
JJ ... I'm surprised you didn't break into song ("rocks sand rocks sand rocks sand") ?! "Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light... Roxanne, You don't have to sell your body to the night... Roxanne..."
@@JJLAReacts You may have the good looks and the oh so smooth voice - But I'm old (71 !) an' in that, I have no choice! You could be ugly (you're not) You could sound bad (you don't) But my age increases (🥺) ... Nevermind, don't be sad! 🤭 👋😊🏴🖖
Sadly Great Yarmouth voted in a Rupert Lowe as their new MP in July, a hard right Reform UK candidate who doesn’t think climate change is real, so I doubt things will get any better for Hemsby.
Interestingly, it looks like Lowe is pushing the relevant Secretary of State to commit to reviewing the funding requirements. I don't agree with the man's political views but it sounds like he understands the urgency of the situation. I suppose time will tell whether he helps or hinders.
I Hope that even though he doesn’t believe in climate change, he can see that there is still a problem either way and deal with it as best he can. I live in the village over from hemsby so I wish nothing but the best for the place.
Not only was his comment crass, it is also ridiculous. If sea levels rise, then you have a shorter overall shoreline, therefore fewer building opportunities
Don't worry, the Dutch will help. Dutch engineers are helping countries worldwide with their sea-problems. Not sure we are helping in this area at the moment/yet.
Well I live about 4 miles inland of Hemsby, and the only reason I don't live in a swamp is thanks to the Dutch who came over in the Sixteenth Century, and drained said swamp.
Holland is suffering from its own flood problems. The Dutch really are well equipped with water management. However I’m not so sure with their changing political situation how likely there would be any opportunity. 😢
I live about half an hour from that coastline. A few years ago we had a storm that breached the sea walls and flooded a few attractions inc the sealife centre, killing alot of the fresh water animals and releasing other animals into the wild
That was interesting, I'm from the Midlands where we are really lucky, never have extreme weather, JJ don't just dip your toe in, come wading in🤣 on a whole we are a friendly bunch who really enjoy your videos, I personally cook my tea (dinner to you) to coincide with your videos.
Parts of the North Yorkshire coast are affected in a similar way. The North Sea is a force to be reckoned with. Lovely sandy beaches at a cost! Sometimes putting sea defences in one place can have a detrimental effect on somewhere else nearby as it can divert the water and the surges to another area, causing the same problem there. There needs to be far more coordination in order to protect the coastline.
In Sidmouth (Devon) there is a house on top of the cliffs. I remember seeing it there when I was a child. About 9 years ago it was still there. We were back in Sidmouth about two weeks ago and I was amazed that the house was still there, nearer the edge of the cliff though. There has also been quite a few cliff falls in West Bay (Dorset) when we were there a couple of weeks ago you could see cracks in the cliff face, It's so sad.
Same in Sussex, from Seaford going East huge chunks of cliffs falling onto the beaches. Lots of lovely homes will be gone soon including the lovely cottages at Birling Gap.
One needs to understand that is the North Sea, it has huge storms that destroy the cliffs continually. This stretch of coast is probably the worst area but it is happening all along the East coast of the UK. We do get hurricanes but not often ( I lived thru one that caused a high death total, I live on the Yorkshire coast) but the east coast is vulnerable. There were winds as high as 130 m.p.h. This area was hit the worst, go find the video of the 1963 storm that attacked the full length of the east coast, it will shock you as most foreigners don’t realize our country gets that kind of weather.
The bit about the crustal rebound is borderline, because the fulcrum is more or less level with the North Norfolk coast. Scotland is rising, so sea level dropping, meanwhile Brighton and Penzance are dipping their toes.
I worked on the Thames Barrier. Since the end of the Ice Age Britain has been tilting, with Scotland and the North rising and the South sinking. This is why the Thames Barrier was needed. The calculation did not factor in Climate Change. So London will be under water sooner than expected. It's pretty galling for someone from the North watch Westminster allocate massive investment into London and the South when we are ignored or given promises that never materialize. They ignore the forthcoming problems, meaning they will need to spend even more on London when the flooding comes. The Thames Barrier has come very close to over-topping in recent times.
I actually live a short way down the coast and one of the problems that never seems to be talked about is the fact that coastline is only a very new coastline relatively… the channel and that part of the North Sea was originally land linking Britain and mainland Europe called Doggerland but it was swept away in one of the world’s worst tsunamis… literally swept away hundreds of square miles. So now we have a coast made like they mentioned made mainly of sand flint and pebbles that worked find as land but now the sea hits it it just washes away. And I get that climate change is not helping but this has been happening for hundreds of years I have family whose birth places or distant family burial places that are now swept away. There really isn’t much that can be done though because it will either cost so much for not a huge return or they just keep putting plasters over it to hope it holds a wile longer. And it’s funny you should mention California as the tiny village of California is a couple of miles from hemsby and that is also falling in the sea… 😅.
Scarborough which is further north up the East coast suffers in the same way. A hotel fell off the cliff into the sea there in 1993. 21 nearby villages are at risk. Dubai and Saudi have the money from extortionate oil sales to build/buy anything they want. I agree we should be collaborating with the Dutch more. They have a much shorter coast line to cover though.
Meanwhile across the pond, several feet below sea-level, the Dutchies are doing fine and can handle a sea-level rise upto 3 to 5 meters (9 to 15ft) without having to lift a finger.
15:30 - Many American houses would be considered 'temporary' due to being made of twigs n stuff. You can timber-frame and brick 'skin', but, it's different fire regs. I used to be an Electrician.
The thing their doing in UAE is called land reclamation. It's also what Singapore does since they don't have landmass. It's a valid suggestion. I don't know why they're not considering it in the UK. It probably goes back to the same problem that it's private land & therefore why should the government intervene. But still, they don't seem to be even discussing/considering that idea in this video.
Its a losing battle, if you look at the map all the land from Acle (Norfolk) to the coast used to be sea. The sea is making its way back and the infrastructure is in the way.
Because it's not 'historically' been this bad. Erosion at Hemsby has increased on a scale nobody predicted; houses that were considered 'safe' 5 years ago are now on the cliff edge. Nobody's buying there now.
@@antlermagick other places near by disappeard, plus the weather has been hectic in different places everywhere. But, I suppose I'll miss something good because of my way of thinking.
Of the input I can provide as a history nerd, Dunwich is one of the most fascinating examples of this kind of erosion. It was once the capital of the Kingdom of East Anglia, and in the 1200s was similar in size and prestige to London. However, due to a number of huge storms in the early 1280s, the town shrunk and shrunk to its current size of around 180 people. The town at one time had as many as eight parish churches, a large harbour and port and thousands of people. Relevant to your joke about the people 'still being there', there are local myths that Dunwich's church bells can still be heard at certain times of the day. It's eerie stuff, and the kind of thing we can only hope can be avoided with towns and villages like Hemsby.
The UK was once joined to mainland Europe until the end of the last Ice Age when the ice melted. The East of England saw the lowlands and wetlands called Doggerland wiped away as sea levels rose and the North Sea swept through; and because the cliffs are porous and consist of sand and clay the sea crashing against them and rain soaking through them ensures that over time villages and towns are still being wiped away 10,000 years later. I was born just along the coast from Hemsby, grew up there and still refer to it as 'home', so seeing the sea slowly encroaching is nothing unusual. The larger towns mostly have sea defences employed but villages don't and Mother Nature is winning!
I live on the beach in Guernsey, a long beach called Vazon. Thankfully all our frontline sea fronts were walled during the Napoleonic war and further reinforced by the Nazis during Occupation. The Nazi slaves were mostly Russian and Slavic, later deported to Alderney island for execution.
The Isle of Wight is experiencing erosion from the sea and the formation of chines, which are narrow, deep ravines. This erosion has caused a number of issues, including: Military Road Erosion is eating away at the cliff by Military Road, forcing cars to drive close to a sheer drop, and causing concerns that the road could collapse into the waves. Chale and Freshwater Holes have opened up between Chale and Freshwater. Coastlines Three coastlines on the Isle of Wight are at risk of disappearing by 2100 due to erosion. These include Colwell Bay, Thorness Bay to Gurnard Bay, and Quarr and Binstead. Cowes and the Medina Estuary Erosion around the headlands in this area could trigger slope instability, A quote from the environment agency detailing just a few of the issues affecting our beautiful island...those in charge need to get their fingers out😡✌💖
and aye, because of the geology of the british islands, after the weight of the last ice age sanding down the mountains etc, (i was told in geography Scotland's mountains were a LOT higher than mount everest ((which is actually true)) ) but yeah, the northern part of great britain (the island) is still rising out the sea and the southern part is still sinking. :S worrisome much when most of the population of the uk lives there.
Brandon Lewis isn’t the MP for Great Yarmouth since this years’ election! While he was still an MP he took on 5 extra part-time jobs paying him £410,000 a year :(
What you are forgetting JJLA is that sand will be swallowed up by the sea eventually, so the rate the sea waters are rising it won’t be long before those homes in Dubai will be in the sea.
You’ve ever heard of the Domesday book? William the Conqueror didn’t know what he’d become king of …. So he sent out inspectors to its every settlement and the cows, chickens, etc …. So he could tax them! Then the people rebelled. Hence the famous , ‘ harrowing of the North ..l William’s soldiers razed and burned everything
How do you know when a politician is lying to you? You can see their lips moving. For a while after being elected Brandon Lewis was a reasonably decent constituency MP. Then he got various positions in the government, and eventually became a cabinet member. Since then not nearly so good around the constituency. I live in the Borough, about five miles from Hemsby.
That part of the coast cannot be saved because of its geology and the nature of the north sea. You could throw millions upon millions into saving that area and it would be wiped out in the next big storm. Governments have to prioritise their budgets and, as awful as losing homes is, it just isn't feasible.
UAE is a bad example of what could be done. It is an abject failure. The artificial islands are sinking, even without the violent North Sea weather. I wish the UK Government would call in the Netherlands' experts. There's lots of hard & soft engineering we could do to protect places like Hemsby, if there was the political will to do so. For centuries we've dredged stones in the North Sea and spread them on beaches on the South coast of England, at Brighton in particular, to protect against longshore drift erosion. The stones get washed westwards to Cornwall and then out into the Atlantic, some appearing on the shores of the Isles of Scilly. We needed the South coast ports & fishing industry. We also needed the coastal defences to defend us against the damned French and then suddenly in the 20th century the blasted Germans! After the decline of the wool trade in the late middle ages, East Anglia rapidly went from being one of the richest areas in the country, through rearing sheep & shipping the wool to markets in Europe from small local ports, to being a very impoverished backwater with nothing seen as worth protecting. Essex is still widely held as the county with the most country bumpkins in England. The South coast has two Royal Navy ports, Plymouth (Devonport) & Portsmouth. The national government has a lot of investments to protect on the South coast. Sizewell nuclear power stations in Suiffolk are all the infrastructure that they care about in East Anglia. The old power stations (A & B) were built on relatively hard geology but still got built on artificial platforms (about 4m high) to protect them against coastal erosion. Sizewell C is way overdue and massively over budget, partly because it is being built on a 14m platform to protect against sea level rise & coastal erosion, plus it's being built by the French of course! 🤯🥴Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent gets its pebble beach regularly rebuilt with stones dredged from the North Sea. The most stupid of places for the station to have been built geologically, frankly.
You should pay attention to the comments, you've cut down a bit of what annoys most people lately and I've been more inclined to watch. Take the constructive criticism and fck the rest.
Domt worry trump recently said climate change is a good thing and he doesnt know why anyone is complaining because it means more beachfront property 😂😂😂😂. Not even joking google it.
Im sorry but you are wrong. That was not a hurricane. Hurricanes always form in the tropics. If it didn’t start in the tropics it is not a hurricane. It was an extratropical cyclone with winds as strong as a hurricane.
The two guys might be very nice, but their particular accent is my least favourite English accent. It is that of the posh person, who instead of using RP, try to temper their poshness with inflections of multicultural British English and offer up trans/midatlantic dropping of hard t's to D's . If you're posh you're posh own it, I know it's cringe being posh but it's not as cringe as this alternative.
....and yet we can afford a royal family, funding for Ukraine and various other conflicts, we help fund other countries [foreign aid] including India, we have free hotels to those washing up on our shores, with free food and free heating, we have written off untold millions we gave to Rwanda, we have PLENTY of cash to protect every inch of the coastline, if we WANTED to!!!!
right, lol don't look into just why there's so much sand in the sahara, but aye, there's loads of things could be done to prevent this, but in long term thinking the uk gvt is not really interested in just who loses what. a fair world would allow everyone who's homes are threatened to sell back to the government for market price previous to threat, but hey lol i'm a mad Scottish hippy from 1969, what do i know.
Climate change is a normal cycle of earth it’s constantly threw out centuries, one time there was no ice at the poles until a dramatic global cooling then global warming then global cooling global warming were at the end of the ice age our ice caps are going like it or not expect a dramatic rise in sea level tho eventually global cooling will see the land return but we’re talking thousands of years for that cycle
While governments and big businesses and the media are bickering, people are affected and suffer the consequences of their greed... 30:42 What is needed is stone and concrete blocks further out in the sea to create a sea wall along the whole East coastlines. And to add i bet they start doing something once London starts flooding.
I used to visit Hemsby alot as a child. Its beautiful and this is very sad.
As someone who lives in the Borough of Great Yarmouth, about five miles inland from the village of Hemsby. I moved to the area in 1987, and although there has always been erosion happening, it was longshore drift stripping sand off the beaches and moving it south. One thing that happened is that further north they did some works to slow the sand coming off the beaches, and moving south. What this seems to have done is accelerate the removal of the beach at Hemsby, as it's no longer being replaced by the stuff coming down the coast. also in the same time period as we have been losing huge amounts off of the Hemsby, a few miles down the coast we have had a new "Outer Harbour" at Great Yarmouth, and this also seems to have had some effects. The beaches, and dunes at Yarmouth are actually growing. Yarmouth pier was once able to have sea going steamers dock at the end of the pier. Now the sea barely makes it to the end of the pier at high tide.
Then they built a new bridge at the end of the "Inner Harbour" This was completed at the end of 2023. since the completion of the works it's had a very serious effect on the water levels in my local river, which is tidal, even 20 odd miles from where it empty's into the sea in Yarmouth. All of a sudden the average water level in the river is a foot or so higher, as it seems the tidal flow rates have been affected at the outflow of the river system. A foot might not seem much, except the river was often within a foot or so of breaking the banks and flooding the riverside chalets. Chalets just like the ones in Hemsby that aren't considered homes. Oh there are flood defences to stop wider areas getting flooded, just they were built behind the chalets.
Oh wow! That’s some excellent insight! So the natural flow of sand was slowed North of Hemsby and keeping it from being replenished. It’s a much more complicated system than I realized. Thanks for that!
@@JJLAReacts As already noted, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston are growing.
10 or so miles south in Suffolk is a town called Lowestoft. So called because it has the lowest oft tide. It is the most easterly point of the UK.
In the 1970s the tide occasionally reached the sea defences, in Great Yarmouth, but now it barely touches the piers that stretched out into the sea.
The storms we get are usually the tail end of huge tropical storms and hurricanes that started off in the gulf of Mexico the Caribbean and Florida. They lock on to the gulf stream, usually it's just rain. But every so often they come as powerful storms.
It's so wild to see how it's all connected.
I hope I can say for most in the comments, it's been really cool seeing you swim, down, deep in our murky comments swamp J.J.. One love from Scotland. 💙
I read somewhere that those islands in Dubai are not stable and are slowly sinking back into the water…especially the islands that have been dredged into the shape of the world. The Dubai authorities are constantly having to top up the sand and they were debating on whether to build anything on them.😬
But this was some time ago so they may have solved the issues by now! 🤷🏽♀️
Ohhhh, that actually makes a lot of sense. Now that you mention it, I do remember hearing that it was taking a lot longer than expected - maybe that's why.
you should check out the story Llanwddyn it was a village purposely flooded to create a reservoir called lake vyrnwy (the village is still intact below the lake)
Oh interesting! Thanks!
@@JJLAReacts If you're checking that out, then you need to look into "Tryweryn".
Welsh village that was lost when they flooded the valley to make a reservoir for Liverpool. It's notable because while every Welsh MP voted against it, there are numerically more English MPs, of course, as it's a bigger place and they forced it through, against all local Welsh opposition.
It was a major event that ignited the move for Welsh devolution - which Wales now has, with its own Welsh Parliament that has Welsh issues devolved to its control from Westminster (UK-wide issues remain at Westminster).
There's a famous bit of graffiti near the site that reads "Cofiwch Dryweryn" - which is "Remember Tryweryn" in English.
The City of Liverpool actually issued an official apology. They recognised that it shouldn't have happened against the will of the local people. But the UK Parliament has never acknowledged nor apologised for its part.
There's been a lot of that. Wales is hilly - it has abundant natural resources to mine, so much rain for reservoirs. England has been exploiting it - and giving very little back in return to Wales for centuries.
(Actually, I just checked and there's a video by FaultLine - who did this video today - on the subject of Tryweryn. Video title: "Why England Erased This Welsh Village".)
Like, there are good historical reasons why you should never call a Welshman "English". Plundered resources, multiple deliberate attempts to kill off the language, left to be the poorest and sickest part of the UK.
Another video you need to see is Dafydd Iwan singing "Yma o Hyd" (Still Here) before the Welsh rugby team played. Even as an American, you will have never seen as much raw patriotism in one place. The lyrics tell the tale of the trials and tribulations of the Welsh over the centuries, but the chorus declares "despite the worst of everyone and everything, we're still here. We're still here".
(But it's the right type of patriotism. In the midst of all that singing, you can also see Ukrainian flags being waved as well, to show support. The Welsh understand: "Patriotism is the love of one's country, NEVER the hatred of another".)
Seconded - though this same channel (Faultline) has a video about another Welsh village that the English flooded (Capel Celyn).
It's called "Why England Erased This Welsh Village" and it's got some great journalism and production value, just like this one.
Poulaphouca Reservoir in Ireland is a similar story. The valley was flooded in 1940 to create a reservoir for water supply and hydro-electricity. The valley had contained 76 houses prior to its flooding.
The reservoir called Rutland Waters in England was also created to provide water at the turn of a tap. A village lies beneath that too.
Norfolk born and raised, we spent every summer holiday in a chalet on the Marrams in the 70's and had a fantastic time running around the beautiful dunes! It's very sad to see what has happened to it since and frustrating to hear how residents are getting so little support. I now live in the Netherlands and we all have to pay a water tax for the protection of the country from floods. I hope that there will be more done to help protect the Norfolk coastline in the future, like it is over here in the Netherlands. The Dutch did most of the design in Dubai, I'm sure it can be done in Hemsby too!
Oh wow! The Dutch did the Dubai islands?! I had no idea! Surely they can do it in Hemsby, right? Thanks for the insight!
Back in 2008 when I was in college, we learned about the coastal erosion of the Holderness coast (which was mentioned in this video.) I wonder just how much of that coastline has been lost since 2008 and if any towns have been lost since then. Anyway, to answer your question about them just getting more sand, part of the problem is that there are no beaches because of long shore drift, a phenomena where sand is carried along the coast by the waves which always pushes the sand diagonally onto the beach, drags it out straight and then pushes it back on diagonally again, meaning eventually, all the sand moves along the beach. Without something to catch the sand and stop it from moving too far, the beach eventually is lost. And this is the case with the holderness coast.
Damn. Mother Nature might be too powerful.
If you look at photos of Village alborough in East Yorkshire on the East Coast it's scary how much as been losted
Learning Geography in the early 1970's this was part of the standard curriculum as just another physical geography event. We had not even heard of climate change back then.
I live a few miles south of Hemsby, a town called Gorleston. I swear we are getting the remains of Hemsby, our beach has gotten so much bigger over the years
Wow!
I live in California. We have rock defences along with Scratby, but we lose our beach in some winters.
Next door, Caister has the rock defences protecting their beach.
I think Happisburgh has it even worse. (For non Brits.. its pronounced Haysborugh)
If the let the waters breach at either Hemsby or just north of Winterton then we will become an island the sea curls round us and inundates the land to Breydon Water.
That would leave us on a sand cliff with water eating towards us from all directions.
It took 8000 years to build this coast, and it will take 200 years to destroy it.
I used to go to the Isle of Wight off the south coast . We went to a Theme Park called Black Gang . There was lots of parts of rides that had fallen down the cliff face. When we left there was a detour as part of the road had fallen down the cliff. A Very adventurous holiday .
LOL. That's a wild rollercoaster!
We've been to Hemsby for many holidays, in the last 5 years, metres have disappeared. The lifeboat couldn't get out as the slope washed away. It depends on tourism. So many homes have fallen, or had to be demolished. It's so sad, as the government won't help fund flood defences
But sadly it's not cost effective think of Britain being like a cake with a hard center surrounded by sand. The Netherlands are sheltered by the mass of the British Isles to the West and Continental Europe to East. MALTA is also struggling being a small Island with no protection from nearby Countries.
I just got back off a holiday in East Yorkshire (just above where this is set). In Withernsea (part of the Holderness coast), there's a plaque to a 13th century Church that was destroyed by the sea in the 16th century. That church would be around a mile into the North Sea if it still stood. Huge chunks of the east coast are just being eroded and there's almost nothing that can be done about it.
Wow! It's probably still out there!
I live on an island in the South East of England and we lose parts of the Island every year , the same happens here as it does in Hemsby and people are losing their houses , its so sad , i feel for the people living on the edge.
Isle of sheppey? Yeah there's massive erosion. It's nuts
Hurricanes may not be able to form in the waters around the UK due to our latitude however they can and do travel to the UK hurricanes aren't very common in the UK unlike storms with gale force winds .
It's correctly spelt the 'Domesday' Book, but pronounced "Doomsday" Book.
As an addendum I'll just mention that "Domesday" is the Middle English spelling. Doomsday isn't so much wrong as it is a translation into Modern English.
I live 21 miles from Hemsby near Lowestoft in Suffolk, the most easterly point of Great Britain. It is very sad to see this happening so near to where I live. Some villages have been lost in Suffolk to. Dunwich just down the road from where I live has lost a lot of their village to the sea. Some people say at night you can hear the ghostly ring of the village curch bell from under the sea.
Amazing!
We're also having an increased number of cliff falls in the South of England in recent months - again with properties finding themselves perched on the edge of cliffs, when they had previously been 100 yards or so from the top of the cliffs. The main road along the south side of the Isle of Wight is going to fall into the sea sometime soon.
So it's happening in more places than just Hemsby? That's heartbreaking.
@@JJLAReactsNorth Devon too & that's high cliffs eroding.
The east coast of the U.K. suffered a terrible storm and excessively high tide in 1953 .It did awful damage.There is a film about it if you google .Itshows how vulnerable our east coast is.
Here In cornwall we get raging Atlantic storms all the way thru autumn/winter but the winds are def picking up earlier than normal - we lost some fencing in August for heavens sake!
Cornwall gets absolutely battered, and we do have erosion - several beaches have had to be closed because of rock falls. The storms are becoming more fierce, more frequent, and starting earlier in the season.
It has been found that putting up defenses just causes movement of the destruction to move to another area, so has been basically stopped due to cost really.
This is why we know climate change is real and we take it seriously.
You think climate change is something new? It even says in the video that this has been happening for 5000 years.
@SgtSteel1 It has accelerated over the last 50 years and more recently in the last 20 years it is far more evident not a small thing that the jet stream shifts.
@@lynette. Ok, so that is why property near a beach is the most expensive. Right.
@SgtSteel1 Believe me, it depends on the beach. Do a bit of research.
@@lynette. Research what? every single beach? get stuffed
When I see how much our government wastes every year,20 million to save such a beautiful place and it's people is Nothing. Thank you.
Agreed! It can be saved! Let's do it! ❤️
Don’t build your castle upon sand 😉
Build on bedrock, not on sand
@@togerboy5396 it sank into the swap
You beat me to it 😂
You can see evidence of the rising of the land on the North West coast of England. The sea goes out further and further. When the tide is out, it can take 10 mins or longer to go paddle in the sea..
What amazes me is the sudden appearance of cliffs on a previously flat beach 😉
You mention the UAE's artificial islands, but don't forget that NYC has been building up its shores since it was founded by the Dutch in 1624. It's hard to get exact numbers, but one recent estimate suggested: "Lower Manhattan south of City Hall is about 50% bigger than it was before the Dutch arrived." That reclaimed land will likely be the first to go when the seas' rising becomes significant.
I refer to the 1953 storm in my following comment but put 1963 by mistake, so sorry.
On YT there is a short vid of a beautiful Hotel sliding into the sea.
Look at some videos of the north sea it's wild and very very dangerous.
Thanks!
JJ ... I'm surprised you didn't break into song
("rocks sand rocks sand rocks sand") ?!
"Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light... Roxanne, You don't have to sell your body to the night... Roxanne..."
Oh dangit! I didn't catch that! LOL thanks!
@@JJLAReacts
You may have the good looks and the oh so smooth voice -
But I'm old (71 !) an' in that, I have no choice!
You could be ugly (you're not)
You could sound bad (you don't)
But my age increases (🥺)
... Nevermind, don't be sad! 🤭 👋😊🏴🖖
I love your videos I'm from Newcastle upon Tyne England
Your very hansome x
Sadly Great Yarmouth voted in a Rupert Lowe as their new MP in July, a hard right Reform UK candidate who doesn’t think climate change is real, so I doubt things will get any better for Hemsby.
Interestingly, it looks like Lowe is pushing the relevant Secretary of State to commit to reviewing the funding requirements. I don't agree with the man's political views but it sounds like he understands the urgency of the situation. I suppose time will tell whether he helps or hinders.
Meh, then fuck 'em.
Ugh.
It’s the cause of climate change people question
I Hope that even though he doesn’t believe in climate change, he can see that there is still a problem either way and deal with it as best he can. I live in the village over from hemsby so I wish nothing but the best for the place.
Well, according to your former president, the rising seas just mean more seafront properties. 💁♀️
Apparently, he's a very stable genius, so there's nothing to worry about, right? 😂😞
@@JJLAReacts😂
Not only was his comment crass, it is also ridiculous. If sea levels rise, then you have a shorter overall shoreline, therefore fewer building opportunities
@@robbuxton8438🎯
I would definitely check out a video on the 1953 floods it was devastating for the whole east coast
Don't worry, the Dutch will help.
Dutch engineers are helping countries worldwide with their sea-problems. Not sure we are helping in this area at the moment/yet.
Well I live about 4 miles inland of Hemsby, and the only reason I don't live in a swamp is thanks to the Dutch who came over in the Sixteenth Century, and drained said swamp.
I really hope they do before it's too late. Seems like the Dutch are ready and willing, it's just a matter of money, resources, and politics.
Due to Brexit, I doubt the UK's red tape would allow them to work here...
@@KevFrost I would hope that some red tape doesn't matter in cases like this
Holland is suffering from its own flood problems.
The Dutch really are well equipped with water management.
However I’m not so sure with their changing political situation how likely there would be any opportunity. 😢
I live about half an hour from that coastline. A few years ago we had a storm that breached the sea walls and flooded a few attractions inc the sealife centre, killing alot of the fresh water animals and releasing other animals into the wild
That was interesting, I'm from the Midlands where we are really lucky, never have extreme weather, JJ don't just dip your toe in, come wading in🤣 on a whole we are a friendly bunch who really enjoy your videos, I personally cook my tea (dinner to you) to coincide with your videos.
LOL thanks! I feel honored to be a part of your routine! Comments like yours are what keep me coming back ❤️
@@JJLAReacts 🙏😊x
Parts of the North Yorkshire coast are affected in a similar way.
The North Sea is a force to be reckoned with. Lovely sandy beaches at a cost!
Sometimes putting sea defences in one place can have a detrimental effect on somewhere else nearby as it can divert the water and the surges to another area, causing the same problem there. There needs to be far more coordination in order to protect the coastline.
Oh cool a 15th century town named clare 😊. A don't forget no where in the uk are you more than 70 miles from the coast 😮.
Probably 69 miles from the coast by next week.
In Sidmouth (Devon) there is a house on top of the cliffs. I remember seeing it there when I was a child. About 9 years ago it was still there. We were back in Sidmouth about two weeks ago and I was amazed that the house was still there, nearer the edge of the cliff though.
There has also been quite a few cliff falls in West Bay (Dorset) when we were there a couple of weeks ago you could see cracks in the cliff face, It's so sad.
Same in Sussex, from Seaford going East huge chunks of cliffs falling onto the beaches. Lots of lovely homes will be gone soon including the lovely cottages at Birling Gap.
That house must be a terrifying place to live.
Google Maps images at the bottom used to say the month and year of the pictures, now only the year. These of Hemsby are of this year: 2024.
Hemsby was a favourite place for me and my family to holiday when my children were younger now it's sad to see what has happened to it 😢
One needs to understand that is the North Sea, it has huge storms that destroy the cliffs continually. This stretch of coast is probably the worst area but it is happening all along the East coast of the UK. We do get hurricanes but not often ( I lived thru one that caused a high death total, I live on the Yorkshire coast) but the east coast is vulnerable. There were winds as high as 130 m.p.h. This area was hit the worst, go find the video of the 1963 storm that attacked the full length of the east coast, it will shock you as most foreigners don’t realize our country gets that kind of weather.
The bit about the crustal rebound is borderline, because the fulcrum is more or less level with the North Norfolk coast.
Scotland is rising, so sea level dropping, meanwhile Brighton and Penzance are dipping their toes.
Wooden houses are VERY RARE in the UK, and getting rarer. You would not be allowed to build stuff like this any more because of building regulations.
Fairly common in the northern isles - Scandinavian-built house kits.
1987 storm was bad worst I've experienced in my 51 yrs
I didn't know it was so bad there,i went on Holiday to Hembsy many times growing up
It looks like it used to be a wonderful place for a holiday! I'm so hopeful it can make a comeback!
Unlike America, wooden houses featured here are very rare in the UK.
Amazing that they're not even considered "houses".
@@JJLAReactswe call them chalets, sheds, or trailers.
You should do a Thing on Kirk Sorensen and Thorium Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors.
Thanks!
I worked on the Thames Barrier. Since the end of the Ice Age Britain has been tilting, with Scotland and the North rising and the South sinking. This is why the Thames Barrier was needed. The calculation did not factor in Climate Change. So London will be under water sooner than expected. It's pretty galling for someone from the North watch Westminster allocate massive investment into London and the South when we are ignored or given promises that never materialize. They ignore the forthcoming problems, meaning they will need to spend even more on London when the flooding comes. The Thames Barrier has come very close to over-topping in recent times.
the more energy you put into a system the more dynamic it becomes
I actually live a short way down the coast and one of the problems that never seems to be talked about is the fact that coastline is only a very new coastline relatively… the channel and that part of the North Sea was originally land linking Britain and mainland Europe called Doggerland but it was swept away in one of the world’s worst tsunamis… literally swept away hundreds of square miles. So now we have a coast made like they mentioned made mainly of sand flint and pebbles that worked find as land but now the sea hits it it just washes away. And I get that climate change is not helping but this has been happening for hundreds of years I have family whose birth places or distant family burial places that are now swept away. There really isn’t much that can be done though because it will either cost so much for not a huge return or they just keep putting plasters over it to hope it holds a wile longer. And it’s funny you should mention California as the tiny village of California is a couple of miles from hemsby and that is also falling in the sea… 😅.
Scarborough which is further north up the East coast suffers in the same way. A hotel fell off the cliff into the sea there in 1993. 21 nearby villages are at risk.
Dubai and Saudi have the money from extortionate oil sales to build/buy anything they want.
I agree we should be collaborating with the Dutch more. They have a much shorter coast line to cover though.
There are medieval cemeteries falling in to the sea…. Whole churches and lighthouses as well as villages gone …
And why it don't happen in The Netherlands since 1954.
Meanwhile across the pond, several feet below sea-level, the Dutchies are doing fine and can handle a sea-level rise upto 3 to 5 meters (9 to 15ft) without having to lift a finger.
15:30 - Many American houses would be considered 'temporary' due to being made of twigs n stuff.
You can timber-frame and brick 'skin', but, it's different fire regs. I used to be an Electrician.
The thing their doing in UAE is called land reclamation. It's also what Singapore does since they don't have landmass. It's a valid suggestion. I don't know why they're not considering it in the UK. It probably goes back to the same problem that it's private land & therefore why should the government intervene. But still, they don't seem to be even discussing/considering that idea in this video.
Its a losing battle, if you look at the map all the land from Acle (Norfolk) to the coast used to be sea. The sea is making its way back and the infrastructure is in the way.
I really don't understand. If it's historically known to be an "erosion" area why would you buy a house so near the coast?
Because it's not 'historically' been this bad. Erosion at Hemsby has increased on a scale nobody predicted; houses that were considered 'safe' 5 years ago are now on the cliff edge. Nobody's buying there now.
@@antlermagick other places near by disappeard, plus the weather has been hectic in different places everywhere. But, I suppose I'll miss something good because of my way of thinking.
Of the input I can provide as a history nerd, Dunwich is one of the most fascinating examples of this kind of erosion. It was once the capital of the Kingdom of East Anglia, and in the 1200s was similar in size and prestige to London. However, due to a number of huge storms in the early 1280s, the town shrunk and shrunk to its current size of around 180 people. The town at one time had as many as eight parish churches, a large harbour and port and thousands of people. Relevant to your joke about the people 'still being there', there are local myths that Dunwich's church bells can still be heard at certain times of the day. It's eerie stuff, and the kind of thing we can only hope can be avoided with towns and villages like Hemsby.
The UK was once joined to mainland Europe until the end of the last Ice Age when the ice melted. The East of England saw the lowlands and wetlands called Doggerland wiped away as sea levels rose and the North Sea swept through; and because the cliffs are porous and consist of sand and clay the sea crashing against them and rain soaking through them ensures that over time villages and towns are still being wiped away 10,000 years later. I was born just along the coast from Hemsby, grew up there and still refer to it as 'home', so seeing the sea slowly encroaching is nothing unusual. The larger towns mostly have sea defences employed but villages don't and Mother Nature is winning!
I live on the beach in Guernsey, a long beach called Vazon. Thankfully all our frontline sea fronts were walled during the Napoleonic war and further reinforced by the Nazis during Occupation. The Nazi slaves were mostly Russian and Slavic, later deported to Alderney island for execution.
The Isle of Wight is experiencing erosion from the sea and the formation of chines, which are narrow, deep ravines. This erosion has caused a number of issues, including:
Military Road
Erosion is eating away at the cliff by Military Road, forcing cars to drive close to a sheer drop, and causing concerns that the road could collapse into the waves.
Chale and Freshwater
Holes have opened up between Chale and Freshwater.
Coastlines
Three coastlines on the Isle of Wight are at risk of disappearing by 2100 due to erosion. These include Colwell Bay, Thorness Bay to Gurnard Bay, and Quarr and Binstead.
Cowes and the Medina Estuary
Erosion around the headlands in this area could trigger slope instability,
A quote from the environment agency detailing just a few of the issues affecting our beautiful island...those in charge need to get their fingers out😡✌💖
and aye, because of the geology of the british islands, after the weight of the last ice age sanding down the mountains etc, (i was told in geography Scotland's mountains were a LOT higher than mount everest ((which is actually true)) ) but yeah, the northern part of great britain (the island) is still rising out the sea and the southern part is still sinking. :S worrisome much when most of the population of the uk lives there.
It's sad for a few people but nothing is being done for good reasons
I will watch this...with a cup of tea. Just gonna put the kettle on. brb...
The Netherlands build walls out in the sea, and converts it to land. We should do that. Claim back Doggerland!
Yes!!!!! Doggerland is WAAAAYYY out there isn't it? LOL that would be something!
Yes. Then the illegal immigrants will be able to just paddle over, rather than arrive in rubber dinghys !
as you mentioned about the small sand islands built off Dubai ..Who built them ? the masters of sea defenses the Dutch
Brandon Lewis isn’t the MP for Great Yarmouth since this years’ election! While he was still an MP he took on 5 extra part-time jobs paying him £410,000 a year :(
Oh and Europe is currently being trashed by Storm Boris,
What you are forgetting JJLA is that sand will be swallowed up by the sea eventually, so the rate the sea waters are rising it won’t be long before those homes in Dubai will be in the sea.
You’ve ever heard of the Domesday book? William the Conqueror didn’t know what he’d become king of …. So he sent out inspectors to its every settlement and the cows, chickens, etc …. So he could tax them! Then the people rebelled. Hence the famous , ‘ harrowing of the North ..l William’s soldiers razed and burned everything
Norfolk in hills. That's the problem.
Been going for thousands of years.
Doggerland went. That used to connect us by land to the rest of Europe.
I walked to Hemsby from here the day they lost a street to the North Sea.
The sand dunes if replaced would be eroded so quickly not viable.
Yeah, I'm sure you're right. Mother Nature is gonna do what she's gonna do.
I don't believe a word that MP said.
How do you know when a politician is lying to you? You can see their lips moving. For a while after being elected Brandon Lewis was a reasonably decent constituency MP. Then he got various positions in the government, and eventually became a cabinet member. Since then not nearly so good around the constituency. I live in the Borough, about five miles from Hemsby.
He has an answer for everything, and houses are still falling into the water!
That part of the coast cannot be saved because of its geology and the nature of the north sea. You could throw millions upon millions into saving that area and it would be wiped out in the next big storm. Governments have to prioritise their budgets and, as awful as losing homes is, it just isn't feasible.
Watch the British crusade
I'll try to find something on that thanks! It looks interesting and important!
@@JJLAReacts please do the video actually called the British crusade I believe it thumbnail is the British flag.😉
Nice idea. But Dubai is not in the north sea. And coastal UK + Ireland and s not full of billionaires.😂😢
UAE is a bad example of what could be done. It is an abject failure. The artificial islands are sinking, even without the violent North Sea weather. I wish the UK Government would call in the Netherlands' experts. There's lots of hard & soft engineering we could do to protect places like Hemsby, if there was the political will to do so.
For centuries we've dredged stones in the North Sea and spread them on beaches on the South coast of England, at Brighton in particular, to protect against longshore drift erosion. The stones get washed westwards to Cornwall and then out into the Atlantic, some appearing on the shores of the Isles of Scilly. We needed the South coast ports & fishing industry. We also needed the coastal defences to defend us against the damned French and then suddenly in the 20th century the blasted Germans! After the decline of the wool trade in the late middle ages, East Anglia rapidly went from being one of the richest areas in the country, through rearing sheep & shipping the wool to markets in Europe from small local ports, to being a very impoverished backwater with nothing seen as worth protecting. Essex is still widely held as the county with the most country bumpkins in England. The South coast has two Royal Navy ports, Plymouth (Devonport) & Portsmouth. The national government has a lot of investments to protect on the South coast. Sizewell nuclear power stations in Suiffolk are all the infrastructure that they care about in East Anglia. The old power stations (A & B) were built on relatively hard geology but still got built on artificial platforms (about 4m high) to protect them against coastal erosion. Sizewell C is way overdue and massively over budget, partly because it is being built on a 14m platform to protect against sea level rise & coastal erosion, plus it's being built by the French of course! 🤯🥴Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent gets its pebble beach regularly rebuilt with stones dredged from the North Sea. The most stupid of places for the station to have been built geologically, frankly.
They put subtitles on people who speak better than the presenters :p
Its ecological correctness gone mad!
You should pay attention to the comments, you've cut down a bit of what annoys most people lately and I've been more inclined to watch. Take the constructive criticism and fck the rest.
the doomes day book is older than your country
Domt worry trump recently said climate change is a good thing and he doesnt know why anyone is complaining because it means more beachfront property 😂😂😂😂. Not even joking google it.
I'm not surprised. I'm laughing and crying...
I guess if these guys were as rich as Saudi then anything would be possible.
Despite what google said. It is possible to have hurricanes in the UK.
However they are very rare.
The last big one was back in 1987. 😉
Im sorry but you are wrong. That was not a hurricane.
Hurricanes always form in the tropics. If it didn’t start in the tropics it is not a hurricane.
It was an extratropical cyclone with winds as strong as a hurricane.
climet change
The two guys might be very nice, but their particular accent is my least favourite English accent. It is that of the posh person, who instead of using RP, try to temper their poshness with inflections of multicultural British English and offer up trans/midatlantic dropping of hard t's to D's .
If you're posh you're posh own it, I know it's cringe being posh but it's not as cringe as this alternative.
....and yet we can afford a royal family, funding for Ukraine and various other conflicts, we help fund other countries [foreign aid] including India, we have free hotels to those washing up on our shores, with free food and free heating, we have written off untold millions we gave to Rwanda, we have PLENTY of cash to protect every inch of the coastline, if we WANTED to!!!!
South-East loses, North-West gains. Sorry folks.
right, lol don't look into just why there's so much sand in the sahara, but aye, there's loads of things could be done to prevent this, but in long term thinking the uk gvt is not really interested in just who loses what. a fair world would allow everyone who's homes are threatened to sell back to the government for market price previous to threat, but hey lol i'm a mad Scottish hippy from 1969, what do i know.
Climate change is a normal cycle of earth it’s constantly threw out centuries, one time there was no ice at the poles until a dramatic global cooling then global warming then global cooling global warming were at the end of the ice age our ice caps are going like it or not expect a dramatic rise in sea level tho eventually global cooling will see the land return but we’re talking thousands of years for that cycle
While governments and big businesses and the media are bickering, people are affected and suffer the consequences of their greed... 30:42 What is needed is stone and concrete blocks further out in the sea to create a sea wall along the whole East coastlines. And to add i bet they start doing something once London starts flooding.