I have had such a lot of trouble with internet access – either on one minute off the next or just not available at all – that blogs have not been possible. Have had countless long mobile calls to EE, eventually got new router which is helping but reception is still unreliable. Suggested I move to fibre-optic.
Anyway the second part of tides was simply to state that with sea level rise inevitably fundamental policies will be forced on government sooner or later. These are;
Which areas of current shoreline land shall we give-up to tidal ingress and how will we deal with the private property there lost – will it be left to the ‘market’ i.e. will properties be left to tumble in value until they become worthless or with there be a national compensation relief fund?
How will centres of population be dealt with? On a local level would the coastal flood defences of Hull be repeatedly heightened but not those of the vale of Ancholme – these two areas being identical geo-physically?
How, and when, would displaced home owners, landowners etc. be re-homed.
And more.
Such an issue underlines the essential ‘short-term’ mentality of the western political process.