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Will Rising Seas Swamp Sydney, Australia by Century’s End?
Approaching Sydney (Photo credit: epc)
Alberto Boretti, Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Ballarat’s School of Science and Engineering in Ballarat, Australia, has a problem with recent pronouncements of the Australian government, which is providing information to the country’s citizens that depicts, in the near future, “floods and mass relocations due to the rise of sea levels resulting from increased carbon dioxide emissions.” He reports, for example, that “low-lying coastal areas, where the majority of Australians are concentrated, have been declared at risk of sea level inundations,” and that “maps with 0.5, 0.8 and 1.1 meter sea level rise have been proposed for Sydney, the major Australian city.” But are there any real-world data to justify this scare-mongering?
2012-11-06 12:40:39
Source: http://climatechangedispatch.com/home/10707-will-rising-seas-swamp-sydney-australia-by-centurys-end
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