AS the NSW chief scientist recommended as long ago as 2012, it is time that Eurobodalla Shire Council gave primacy to local facts instead of global computer speculations in setting Eurobodalla’s coastal management. Of equal priority in that primacy, must be that, of minimising costs to its ratepayers.
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And, this why: “At last, a responsible government has recognised that global average sea-level change is no more relevant to coastal management than average global temperatures are to the design of residential heating and cooling systems - local weather and local sea-level change is what matters. Dr Bob Carter, The Australian, December 12.
The ‘responsible government’ being the Queensland Government, whose Deputy Premier recently notified Moreton Bay Regional Council to amend its draft planning scheme “to remove any assumption about a theoretical projected sea-level rise due to climate change from all and any provisions of the scheme”. This removes the “global one size fits all” approach of the IPCC, Whitehead & Associates, and our council.
Dr Carter’s revelations explain how by applying the ‘global one size fits all approach’, individual Eurobodalla properties statistically lost about $40,000 in value. “With 22,000 properties in the shire, this represents a capital loss of $880 million at a rate of $293 million per year. This steady loss of rateable value means ratepayers will face rate increases.” Its cause being the hugely unfair weighted impact on the 6000 properties directly affected by the council’s interim sea-level policy.
Our council orchestrated this horror, yet seems unable to grasp its appalling cost, unlike those who pay, the ratepayers.
Council’s adopted sea-level advice from Whitehead & Associates is but a reflection of the IPCC’s computer virtual world speculations of global warming orthodoxy, particularly, its corruption of good tide gauges’ data with corrupted satellite data.
Neville Hughes
Surf Beach