A Kindergarten review

Climate change is like a runaway train speeding downhill.

It would be stupid to increase the engine's energy output unless you are the contractor supplying the fuel.

Available from the CSIRO is the Atlas of Coast and Oceans mapping systems, threatened resources and marine conservation.

The author suggests that the Carteret Island in Papua New Guinea may become the first land mass over run by rising seas in 2015.

Relocation of the Carteret Islanders has the potential to create social conflict in the region.

Will the Carteret Islanders become the first climate change refugees in 2015?

This will mark the culmination of decades of dithering by those producing 99 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Locally, how many properties across the Peninsula are threatened with sea level rise of just 20cm?

The Peninsula could become an insurance black spot.

Be prepared for much more spin and fudging of the figures.

Review of the NSW Sea Level Rise Policy Statement will be very interesting, particularly as it proposes to comment on "the adequacy of the science".

This is like the Kindergarten teacher reviewing the principal.

Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Letter, 14 Feb 2013

Norman Harris, Umina