Scotland’s Montrose Beach is losing seven meters of sand every year due to climate change, according to a research report.
Previous estimates were conservative as scientists from EnviroCentre predicted the beach was losing only three meters every year but the scale of events have doubled the impact.
Why The Beach is Shrinking?
Flooding and intense storms this year are the primary drivers of erosion at the beach and that too amplified by the climate crisis.
Scotland experienced its wettest April since 1947 this past spring, following a series of unprecedented storms last season.
In November, Storm Babet caused Montrose’s beach promenade to collapse, with the beach eroding by 3 meters.
David Wood, head of Montrose community council’s sub-group on coastal erosion, remarked, “I don’t think any of us can remember anything like the level of storms that we had [last season]”
The community has asked the government to dispatch large quantities of sand on the beach to restore lost levels, a project to cost £2 million.
