Impact of global warming on Cornwall
Boscastle flood, 2004. Image: David Flower
Anyone expecting global warming to lead to balmy Mediterranean conditions in Cornwall may be seriously disappointed.
Scientists warns that climate change is likely to bring:- Rising sea levels leading to coastal erosion and loss of beaches. A recent report by English Nature and other respected authorities warned that most of Britain’s holiday beaches could disappear within a hundred years.
- Many more extreme weather events such as the storm that devastated Boscastle in 2004. Lives, homes and transport systems will all be at increased risk, and home insurance costs will rise sharply. Homes in some flood-prone areas are already becoming almost impossible to insure.
- Threats to local wildlife and plants as habitats change. Especially at risk will be species adapted to a cool climate, including such much-loved Cornish flowers such as daffodils, crocuses and snowdrops.
- Invasions of destructive pests and dangerous tropical parasites, including such species as termites and malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
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Global warming spells bad news for Cornish daffodils.
