Britain Contemplates Losing Part of Norfolk. By Patrick Barkman, London Guardian, April 17, 2008. "Last month... a new plan... was leaked to the public. Calling for 'the embayment' of 25 square miles of low-lying land, the government's environmental body, Natural England, said that nine miles of sea defences between the seaside villages of Eccles and Winterton were unsustainable 'beyond the next 20-50 years'... What this cold academic language actually means is wiping part of Norfolk off the map: 600 homes, six villages, five medieval churches, four fresh-water Broadland lakes, historic windmills, precious nature reserves and valuable agricultural land would be given up to the rising seas. Britain would have its first climate change refugees."
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