Misleading Bbc Report About Coastal Erosion.

[dave50]

On the BBC news this evening about coastal erosion in the usual places in the UK saying it was due to rising sea levels, implying typically it was due to climate change. No, this coastal erosion has been occurring for forever in these areas. Still the bbc obsession with climate change continues.

[Atheist]

The BBC didn't say it was due to climate change? But you think that was what they meant?
What puzzles me is why you think that the BBC is obsessed with climate change. Why would they be?

[Spicerack]

They never shut up about it.
And everything they say is misleading.

[Atheist]

spice; two statements of opinion without any justification. You cannot be serious.

[webbo3]

https://images.app.goo.gl/iNwWx6SfR2qoxdDh6

https://images.app.goo.gl/mKFcV2T6kHDyK1uU9

[dave50]

The point being they blamed rising sea levels and by implication, climate change, they always connect the two.

[ichkeria]

You’re the one who’s made the connection!

[Buenchico]

Of course coastal erosion has been going on for centuries (or, indeed, millennia), Dave50, but the important fact is that climate change is vastly accelerating the process through rising sea levels.

The BBC has correctly reported on the findings of Dr Komali Kantamanemi (Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire), Dr Louis Rice (Associate Professor of Architecture at UWE Bristol and Head of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments), Dr Xiaoping Du (RADI, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr Belqais Allali (University of Salford) and Dr Komali Yenneti (University of Wolverhampton).

Their research seems to have taken quite some time to get noticed by the BBC though, as it was published in 'Coastal Management' back in January. That journal is internationally respected and everything in it has been fully subjected to peer review prior to publication.

I see nothing wrong at all in the BBC correctly reporting on the findings of work by internationally-respected experts in their field, which has then been further checked by others independently.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08920753.2022.2022971

[Peter Pedant]

yes I did - notice the piece
just snivel and whine on AB ? like the majority
I did not

Do I usually write in such insulting terms to the marxists at the Beeb ridiculing their -ology degrees, essex accents and lack of scientific doo-dah?
Yes


Hi tree huggers [ begins PP to the Beebsters]

can you stop tree hugging for a moment and think about Happisburgh ?

consider the idea that - - - you cant turn back the sea ( altho people have tried). ( canute or someone first said it - but THAT of course does not mean it is true)

I thought the BIG IDEA of the failed minnesota/mississippi river control experiment ( or works) ten or twenty years ago is that you couldnt control the long term hydrodynamics

not really a journo concept - more a geographers idea, or fluid engineers theme

carry on tree-hugging and thumb sucking !

( luv PP - you overpaid marxist dunces) or some such closing formula

[Peter Pedant]

can anyone remember the failed Mississippi minnesota missouri hydrodynamic project? - twenty years ago

They spent hundreds of milllions of dollars, blocking this, damming that and straightening a third....

and there were bluddy great floods which washed everything away.

the only thing I really remember is viddie of a man kicking down sandbags and unleashing a torrent because he was late for tea. and sort of flooded a state, or half a state

and the overall judgement was - you cant buck nature, and attempt to eradicate rivers

[Togo]

The image below was built in the late 1200s early 1300s. Well before the industrial revolution released the glow bulls. The far side has an entrance called the sea gate that ocean going sailing vessels used to dock alongside to unload supplies and men. Not far from here are a few villages and caravan parks that were established in the 1800s and after. They are currently the poster boy locations for BBCWales when the disaster meme is deemed necessary to frighten the sheeple, and flagged up as the victims of our wanton disregard for the whirled. The sea levels here were not affected by mankind to this extent and it is false science to regard it as fact. Ask yourselves why was the sea right alongside Harlech Castle in the 1200s and why did the levels drop if we are busy making it rise?

https://thumbsnap.com/i/AxbBNxw8.jpg

[Peter Pedant]

It was this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993

James scott - sandbag kicker - got life

and this.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Midwestern_U.S._floods
reprise of 1993 and very little I admit of - we are wasting our time

[MissTerious]

Yes it has but not at this rate. It's a ctually very worrying. I live on North Norfolk, fortunately not too near the sea.

[Peter Pedant]

Thanks miss T
I wondered if the rate of erosion had gone up

[Peter Pedant]

Has anyone followed this - - has the voice over and the contents changed over the day - I am looking at the third version

and really cant tell...- I think it may just be ignorance,. Jonah Fisher is obviously NOT a scientist. And yes he missed completely that whether or not there has been erosion, the seal levels have only just started rising - ergo tenuous connection

The Beeb has to give both sides - and as tree huggers may not know that one side is rubbish. and the little old white haired lady wondered what they cd save and what they would have to let go

and I DID think: god you dont realise: you are going to have to let the whole lot go ....

[lankeela]

Having lived right on the cliff top at Happisburgh from 95 - 97 I can vouch for the fact that the scale of erosion in the past twenty five years has increased at an incredible rate - you can actually see where I lived in the film, where the two men are walking along the beach and there is a white bungalow at the top of the cliff behind them and mine was just behind that. There was at one time a road about a hundred yards in front of those bungalows and now they are on the edge.

[tomus42]

It's always so annoying when the media says things that tend to contradict what we'd like to believe.

I always go and search for something random on YouTube that agrees with me, then I feel better.

[davebro]

I doubt that rising sea levels contribute much to Norfolk coastal erosion - more likely an increase in the frequency & strength of storms.

[DTCwordfan]

Plusses and minuses in all of this - to counter the eroding cliffs, how about the growth of land around Romsey, Hastings etc which has led to there ancient ports becoming redundant - then there's the silting up of rivers such as the Fal where villages/towns like Tregony have become redundant or in the Solway and Morecambe Bay. There's also a geostatic effect at play where the land continues to lift upwards, this a post-glacial factor.

[douglas9401]

To be fair to the BBC they do spend an inordinate amount of time on homosexual and racial inclusivity.

It's not all Canutery.

[FatticusInch]

davebro
//I doubt that rising sea levels contribute much to Norfolk coastal erosion - more likely an increase in the frequency & strength of storms.//

Yeah, let’s ignore all that evidence and scientific data, it’s obviously worthless.