The offered illusive answers lie in your earlier editorial “the long-awaited report on sea-level rise is an opportunity for everyone to get informed” by Kerrie O’Connor (August 1).   

The report is based on the same deceptive assumptions as ESC’s adopted Greenhouse Action Plan 2012-2017, which essentially relies on the UNIPCC global warming claims.

The August 1 editorial quotes, “council has an obligation to plan for rising seas and ever-worse impacts on coastal areas over time (storms?)”. Of course it has, but based on bona fide local data, not unfounded alarmism and global averages.  

Additional quotes from the report: “governments have no choice but to accept climate change is happening”, “governments...will continue to fail, to take action quickly enough to reduce carbon emissions”, “the predicted sea-level rise by 2050 and 2100 is based on what will happen if we continue to tread water on climate change”, and, “governments risk bankrupting our future by refusing to take the short-term political pain that action on carbon requires”.  

This is pure Greens’ codswallop.  

Independent scientists of international standing should determine the report’s validity. Homeowners need to know what it means in real terms.

Neville Hughes

Surf Beach