Climate change risk to coastal castles - English Heritage

Castles that have stood for hundreds of years are at risk of being damaged by climate change, conservation charity English Heritage warns.

The charity, which manages over 400 historic sites across England, highlighted six castles threatened by coastal erosion and rising sea levels.It is appealing for money to repair walls and improve defences against storms and more powerful waves. "It seems to be that the whole natural dynamics of the coastline in some places have been accelerated by climate change," Rob Woodside, English Heritage's Estates Director, told BBC News.

"What we're trying to do now is essentially buy time, so with places that we value, and people want to look after, we put measures in place to protect them." There's broad consensus among scientists that even if the greenhouse gas emissions that warm the earth are dramatically cut, global sea levels will continue to rise for several hundred years. Higher sea levels mean more powerful waves coming closer to the shore, and faster coastal erosion.

For these symbols of feudal oppression, it’s their ‘Canute’ moment. However, support for our parasitic monarchy is crumbling even faster. AbolishTheMonarchy

Hopefully the spanners will sink they are the ones voting for this

Let's be honest. You can see how the makeup of this country is changing due to decades of immigration. Fair enough, but immigrants have zero interest in the history of this country so in another hundred years or so, who's going to care about our historic buildings?

🤪🤪🤪🤪 bbc will just print anything these days. Bet the bbc haven't fact checked this. DefundTheBBC

We’ve always had a climate and it changes sometimes by the minute,

BOLLOCKS just a campaign to get donations

Forget looking after the poor and down trodden, let's save the 🏰 ! Ffs

English Heritage should be locked away in the dungeon of one of these castles!

Still tiptoeing around the issue, huh? It’s called global warming, get with the programme. If we had global cooling, flooding of coast castles would not be a problem.

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Total nonsense.

Don't show this to Jacob_Rees_Mogg

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