Just as there has been no global warming for about 17 years, there has also been a significant measured global deceleration in the very small and very normal rising, which has been occurring globally since the last ice age), now less than 1mm a year in our region.

There are about 300 top sea-level measurement experts in the world, but Eurobodalla Council’s management prefers to sideline the majority of these (and the satellite measurements) and instead hire compliant scientists from other disciplines, to get the answers it wants – just like the UN’s IPCC, which engaged 33 scientists to review sea-level rise, yet not one was a sea-level measurement expert.

The IPPC and many other political bodies are constantly caught fudging the figures, some even admitting to doing so.

Undeterred by reality, and in direct defiance of this state directive, our council’s management is putting up a commissioned policy, which again gives precedence to failed global computer models, attempts to fudge the real measurements for our region, fails to produce the required economic or social impact studies, and skips the requirement for community consultation.

Council even ignores its own sea-level rise policy for waterfront developments.

Minister Constance would like everyone to believe that he is trying to hold council accountable.

The truth is that the major parties only want the same three things: power, money and your vote.

Time to return to independents, I think.

Damien Rogers

Moruya