The ABC report boulders strewn across a road after storm waves and quote experts blaming sea level rise.
It seems that almost three years ago there were works extending a rock wall. Monthly sea level data from tide gauges at Portland and Lorne show that from about 2015-16 sea levels have fallen till the end of last year. We will look out for updated data – and there are a few missing months I can checkout but I wanted to present the raw data. Link to chart
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ABC seem unaware Venice is sinking
Our ABC is running articles on recent flooding in Venice which reached 187cm a tad below the 1966 level of 194cm. I saw a segment on ABC News24 TV where various people blame climate change but it is amazing that the ABC can Nearly half of men ageing above 75 experience discount levitra davidfraymusic.com erectile dysfunction. More importantly, you must avoid alcohol as it can increase the penile blood flow for an erection. More on that in a very cipla viagra later article. It is one of the best herbs levitra pills for sale to prevent old age related health problems like diabetes, chronic pain, lung disease, dementia, heart attack and arthritis. not mention that Venice is also sinking due to ground water extraction and compaction. I have not watched videos at the four links. Here is a pdf download Computing the relative land subsidence at Venice, Italy, over the last fifty years
Hawkes Bay beach erosion blamed on climate change in active earthquake zone
This NZ Herald story “One summer left: On Haumoana’s beachfront, the climate-change hourglass is ticking” clearly blaming “climate-change” for the loss of beach front houses. The article fails to mention the areas frequent earth tremors from seismic activity, 8 quakes moderate and stronger just to the south in the last 10 months, nearby mapped active fault scarps and the area is liquefaction prone. 
Is it a surprise that periodic shakes & tremors from a variety of quakes should weaken the poorly consolidated shoreline sediments beneath the foundations of these unwisely sited houses?
ABC confirms Tuvalu is growing not sinking
Staggering admission by ABC FactCheck.
Report on Maldives from 1837 waxing & waning
Thanks to Siliggy – Has a modern ring to it.
Publicity beating up Perth sea level rising fails to mention the land is sinking
The ABC reports – Perth’s Kwinana Freeway will be permanently flooded by 2100, oceanographer warns – In 2012 I blogged To understand Perth sea-levels is a complex issue – much of the Perth plain has subsided in recent decades
Rainbow Beach “sinkhole” is so obviously the landward end of a slump in marine sediments
Just as well it happened near low tide or it could have been blamed on rising sea levels. Similar happened in 2011. Sinkhole swallows car, caravan at campsite near Queensland’s Rainbow Beach
Wollongong Council says sea level rise not affecting utility of their coastal swimming pools
Recall that about a month ago I posted – No evidence of warmer summers from Wollongong City Council swimming pool attendance figures
At that time I emailed Wollongong Council to ask about historic survey data re heights of their ocean pool walls – for my questions click on more below. Just got a reply saying – [Thanks for your enquiry. Unfortunately information on height of walls with respect to historical mean sea level is not available.
Any actual effects on the utility of pools have not been observed other than storm impacts.]
If anybody has ideas to access historic coastal survey data? Must be data in archives – I am sure our pioneers measured and recorded exactly where they were and where they built things on the planet. Continue reading Wollongong Council says sea level rise not affecting utility of their coastal swimming pools
No evidence of warmer summers from Wollongong City Council swimming pool attendance figures
I saw this news about repairs to the ocean pool at Austinmer north of Wollongong. I have been interested for a while in the issue of the height of the oldest ocean pool walls and how they might relate to historic survey heights and modern survey heights – on the basis there should be another line of evidence here establishing the rate of sea level rise over a century or more.
Wollongong City Council have www page about their pools and there is a downloadable 9 page pdf report – Future of Our Pools Strategy 2014-2024 –
I thought – surely there must be comments here about sea level rise. Not so – not a word about sharks hoiking themselves over the walls during King tides and carrying off the odd swimmer. But I noticed this gem at the end of a string of bullet points on page 7 –
And earlier in the report was this graphic showing declining attendance figures –
All seems logical to me.
Global Warming alias Climate Change [the non-existent, incredibly expensive, threat to us all, including to our grandchildren]
by Dr David Kear (former Director-General, NZ DSIR; United Nations consultant; & South Pacific geoscientist)
I remember Dr Kear as Director of the NZ Geological Survey when I was at University in the early 1960’s – hence my interest in his article now.
INTRODUCTION
“Climate Change” has become an important international topic – one might almost say religion. It began life as “Global Warming”. So very many people, including politicians and “news people”, appear to have been overwhelmed by it, and have led others to believe, and follow the doctrine. It has sponsored a good deal of international co-operation, which can only have been good.
However, the cost of “Combating Carbon” has been extremely high, and the debt and economic consequences are being passed on to present citizens, and, worse still, to future generations, including all our grandchildren. This booklet 180KB pdf – attempts to raise, in citizens’ minds, questions regarding the enormous sums of money and effort being wasted on this topic.