Sea level fear overstated: meteorologist
The NSW government this week said sea levels would rise by up to 40cm by 2050, while Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned that 700,000 homes and businesses valued at up to $150 billion were at risk. Historical analysis, however, shows that on average, global sea levels recorded a modest 20cm rise,...
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- News Source: Sify News | 16 days agoReports indicate that sea levels on Australia's eastern seaboard are rising at less than a third of the rate that the New South Wales Government is predicting. The Rees Government warned that coastal waters would rise 40cm on 1990 levels by 2050,...
- News Source: The Age | 16 days agoThe NSW government this week said sea levels would rise by up to 40cm by 2050, while Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned that 700,000 homes and businesses valued at up to $150 billion were at risk. Historical analysis, however, shows that on average,...
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- Blog Source: www.australianclimatemadness.comOn Thursday we reported that the NSW government was basing planning decisions on a 40cm rise in sea level by 2050. Today in The Australian we see that the.
- Blog Source: australian-politics.blogspot.comSEA levels on Australia's eastern seaboard are rising at less than a third of the rate that the New South Wales Government is predicting as it overhauls the state's planning laws and bans thousands of landowners from developing coastal ...
- Blog Source: www.thefifthestate.com.auWith 80 per cent of the population living in the coastal zone, Australia is particularly vulnerable to coastal erosion and inundation that accompanies sea level rise, the government report says. Around 711000 addresses located within ...
- Blog Source: getenergysmartnow.comStorm surges and rising sea levels - putting at risk over 700000 homes and businesses around our coastlines, with insurance companies warning that preliminary estimates of the value of property in Australia exposed to the risk of land ...
- Blog Source: carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.comThe Urban Development Institute of Australia's NSW chief executive, Stephen Albin, said he was worried that hazard lines to be drawn up by councils based on predicted sea-level rises of 90 centimetres by 2100 could determine which ...
- Blog Source: carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.comMatthew Moore in the Age (Australia): Rising sea levels make it inevitable the North Coast town of Ballina will eventually need levees and pumps to keep the sea at bay, says one of Australia's leading climate change experts. ...
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