SARAH CLARKE: The cost of losing these homes by the sea is estimated at between $40 and $63 billion.
How much did GFC cost? How many trillions?
est. cost $40 /$63 million.
Another guess 1.1 metre rise. Not 0.6m to 1.5 m
IF this does happen in the near future then another transfer of wealth , like GFC, goes up hill .
If you buy property 1.1 metres up from water front land now, you will be in the money. But hay! watch out for boat people.
TIM FLANNERY: Anyone who's thinking that we may be able to adapt to this, I beg you to think again because, you know, the scale at which you'd have to build sea walls or any of these coastal defence barriers is so massive, as to beggar belief.
Gee Tim think outside the box, go watch the movie 2012.
Build sea walls around Australia, you would have to be joking. Didn't you watch Katrina hit New Orleans.
My advice buy a boat. Mine is for sale, for I want a bigger one.
OR
Move to higher ground.
Building walls, spare me Tim.
I just goggle Tim .
Tim Flannery
Dr Tim Flannery is one of Australia's best-known scientists as well as being one of our best-selling writers. His views are often provocative, both intellectually and socially.
Tim is the Principal Research scientist at the Australian Museum in Sydney. He started out, though, doing a degree in English. After graduating, he found a temporary job at the Museum of Victoria in their Vertebrate Paleontology department. This led him to a second degree in Earth Sciences, and from there to a doctorate with the Zoology department at UNSW.
He is renowned academically for his research into the mammals of Melanesia, publishing several acclaimed books on the subject…but he's best known by the broad public as the author of The Future Eaters, one of the best-selling non-fiction books in Australia and New Zealand. That book won a shelf-load of prizes, including the Age book of the year in 1995 and the inaugural South Australian premier's literary award in 1996. His interests aren't restricted to biology, though. Tim has also written 1788, a bestseller about the early years of British colonisation, editing and republishing contemporary accounts, and he has another such book in the pipeline.
Tim appears regularly on radio and is often called on as expert commentator on a wide range of environmental and social issues. He's made numerous television appearances and is currently shooting a television series for ABCTV based on The Future Eaters. He has written articles for a broad range of journals from literary magazines to specialist scientific journals and mass-circulation magazines.
He has recently accepted an offer to be Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 1998.
I didn't know about him until phillip_k's post.
Wouldn't you think he would come up with a better idea then build a wall around the coast. Tim, stick to animals and selling books.
I think we should clean up our act,but they are going a bit over the top with all the fear.
Besides if nature decides to make a move not much man can do except pick up the pieces and start again.
We have been doing that since the beginning of mankind.
Just like a baby learning to walk.
"It's not what happens to you, it's how you handle it that's important.
