BYRON SHIRE Council, the Shire’s citizens and all local media must no longer deny that particular element of the Climate Change debate which is a total scam.
Worldwide, there is one aspect of the debate which is a con. A scam which almost everyone has fallen for.
The scam involves any statement that seeks to engender a sense of panic.
There is no need to panic. There is no reason to panic.
Al Gore kicked it off with his movie An Inconvenient Truth. In it, he made dramatic, even hysterical claims about our planet.
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Claims about sea level rises. Claims about ice caps melting. Cynically, possibly in an effort to amass a fortune from his scam, he attached dates to many of his alarming predictions.
Dates which have already passed.
All sides of the Climate Change debate indulge in outrageous and conflicting spin, if not outright garbage, to promote their own individual agendas.
We have all been conned by the “debate” which has distracted us from the real issues.
The why is not important. The facts are.
We need to get to the core of the debate. And it’s not about temperature rise.
It’s about ocean levels rising.
In an epidemic, locating Patient Zero is crucial.
In the Climate Change debate, identifying Fact Zero is all that matters.
And Fact Zero is that ocean levels around Byron Bay are rising.
Over the past 60 years, the sea level at Byron Bay – and therefore the Byron Shire – have risen approximately 15 centimetres, or about six inches.
Sea level measurements are one thing you can’t fudge. The ocean is measureable. The sea level at Byron Bay is measureable.
It’s been measured accurately for a long time, but let’s just talk about the past 60 years.
For Byron Bay at the moment, the sea level rise trend is about 4 to 5mm per annum. That’s up from about 3mm per year a decade ago and from about 1.5mm per year 30 years ago.
As referenced in Coast Risk’s website, the ongoing, and possibly increasing, sea level rises at the Bay will put significant areas of town under water.
Why No Reason to Panic?
There is no reason to panic about sea level rises at Byron Bay.
There is only a need to plan. The time to start planning, budgeting and taking action is now. Today. At the very next Shire Council meeting.
Everyone who is truly concerned about sea level rises along the Byron Shire coastline needs to be on board.
When their country was threatened by rising sea levels, the Dutch didn’t panic.
They planned, budgeted and took action. And Holland is still safe from sea level rises… 800 years later.
Byron Bay can be safe as well.
But our Council and our townspeople need to take action. Now.
Many people still alive today have watched Byron Bay’s coast line over the past 60 years.
We have seen the loss of land, sand hills, even a paved street.
But effectively, to the eye, nothing appears to have really changed. The Bay is still the Bay, and life goes on exactly the same.
This is simply because it happened so slowly.
There was no need to panic over the past 60 years, and neither should there be over the next 60 years.
People are still buying land and building homes right on the threatened areas. Council even owns two blocks right at the Belongil beachfront.
But we need to take action immediately, to use the years ahead effectively, to save our town from sea level rises.