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As Australians dither over carbon emissions, seas rise up to our cities

major cities – particularly Sydney – are shown to be under much more immediate threat from sea level rises than previously predicted.

Seas ‘will swamp Sydney yearly‘ | The Daily Telegraph, Simon Benson, 11 March 11, SYDNEY will suffer major sea level inundation events once a year instead of every 100 years, according to an alarming new report on climate change impacts from the Government’s chief adviser.

And scientists may have underestimated the sea level rises expected by 2100. Professor Ross Garnaut, the Federal Government’s climate change adviser, called for deeper cuts to emissions and a more rapid move to a carbon tax based on the findings of his fifth official report……
In the report, major cities – particularly Sydney – are shown to be under much more immediate threat from sea level rises than previously predicted. It warned that there had already been a three-fold increase in inundation events in Sydney, according to data taken from Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour.

“The increase in incidence of extreme sea level events for some of Australia’s largest cities is a factor of 1000, and for Sydney it is 10,000,” the report said.

“For a multiplying factor of 100, events with a current occurrence of once every hundred years would occur every year…..Seas ‘will swamp Sydney yearly’ | The Daily Telegraph

March 11, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change - global warming, New South Wales | climate change - global warming