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Costumed climate change protesters are planning a tea party in the sea on Cleethorpes seafront to highlight the dangers of rising sea levels in coastal areas.

A demonstration by Extinction Rebellion Grimsby/Cleethorpes and North East Lincolnshire 4Climate (NEL4Climate) is planned to take place between 4.30pm and 6pm on Tuesday at Brighton slipway near the lifeboat station.

Costumed protesters are set to parade down the seafront and have a tea party in the sea as the tide comes in to protest at the danger of sea level rise due to the climate crisis.

Activists are planning to give information to passers by about the rising sea levels and the high level of risk in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Lincolnshire.

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Jaime Armour, a local business woman from Cleethorpes, said: Our family businesses including ReefRash and the Helm are close to the seafront in Cleethorpes.

"Im really worried about the impact flooding will have on the family business. Will we even be able to get insurance in the future? The government needs to take drastic action to cut CO2 emissions now.

The groups say that sea level rise is already happening but will only get worse along with the chance of extreme weather and storm surges if the county doesn't keep within the Paris Climate agreement.

South Lincolnshire and the Fens, an area hugely important to the country for food production, will also be severely affected according to the activists.

They say that while many people are aware of air pollution and wildfires, they do not realise that flooding will be one of the climate-induced disasters most likely to affect the UK.

Cleethorpes resident Mary Horobin said: Im very worried about the climate emergency and think it should be made much clearer to people how serious the situation is.

"Any event to raise awareness is worthwhile. There are millions of climate refugees, and its just going to get worse. Cleethorpes could easily be under water in a few decades.

"Action needs to be taken. Things need to change very quickly

The action in Cleethorpes is part of a national day of protest called Make Waves happening in more than 80 coastal communities over the four days leading up to the G7 summit conference in Cornwall.

G7 is a meeting of the leaders of seven of the wealthiest democracies in the world who have all agreed that there is a climate crisis but the protest groups claim are not taking enough action.

NEL4Climate and Extinction Rebellion hope to send a clear signal to Boris Johnson and G7 summit delegates that ordinary people demand greater, immediate action to tackle the climate and ecological emergency.

The actions focus is on sea level rise and the groups say that building higher sea defences is not the answer, they want more to be done to tackle emissions, especially continued dependence on fossil fuels.

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Cleethorpes Extinction Rebellion climate protesters planning 'tea party in the sea' - Grimsby Live