Jurassic Coast feels heat of climate change

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The quaint seaside town of Lyme Regis with its narrow, winding streets seems a million miles from the melting polar ice caps or the flooded coral atolls of the Pacific.

But the exposed steel piling behind the promenade and the newly reinforced beach, designed to stop Lyme from crumbling into the sea, show that this, too, is a corner of the planet threatened by climate change.

Many scientists reckon the world is warming due to the "greenhouse effect" caused by emissions from fossil fuels trapping heat in the atmosphere.

The heatwave currently sweeping across large parts of Europe and North America is seen by some as a sign of climate change.

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