Yorkshire will look very different in 2050īelow is a list of all the towns, villages and neighbourhoods that will be swallowed by the sea by 2050 if water levels continue to rise at the same levels and predictions remain consistent. Yorkshire has already experienced several incidents of flooding, including at River Foulness and Market Weighton catchment. Leeds would now be theoretically a coastal city, with the sea just 4 miles from the city centre. The sea would swallow up the majority of Hull and the Humber and extend into Yorkshire as far as Sheffield and in some directions Leeds. That would put a huge chunk of England would now be part of the sea including in Yorkshire. In a week in which David Attenborough issued a 'final' warning about climate change becoming irreversible, we punched the 6m sea level rise into to get a sense of the scale of how devastating this could be. Read more: Man to be deported from UK after running huge drug farm in his Sheffield house In the best-case scenario, sea levels would rise nearly 10 feet in the next. Predictions published in 2016 suggest sea levels could rise by as much as 20ft, or 6 metres, by 2050 thanks to climate change. A new study describes what would happen to global landmarks under various degrees of sea-level rise. Flood water broke defences in York, and left the town resembling a private swimming pool. Human life and existence could change in ways never imagined before if sea levels continue to rise at the present rate, and England's map could be re-drawn completely with several parts of Yorkshire sinking under water.Įarly this year floods ravaged Yorkshire, and floodwater reached record levels in places like the the inner city of Sheffield were a car was submerged.
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