Sydney's sea levels rising - but by how much? | The Daily Telegraph

IT'S official: NSW is going under faster than every other state, with the Rees Government accused of an economically disastrous "doomsday" policy on rising sea levels.
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A leaked letter to Premier Nathan Rees raises serious questions about the accuracy of the Government's global warming projections. Representing property developers and financiers, the group asks the Premier to explain why his Government believes sea levels will be higher in NSW.

"How can you be standing in ankle-deep water in Coolangatta and be knee-deep in Tweed Heads?" Taskforce chief Aaron Gadiel said. "It's ridiculous for anyone to suggest water levels will change on the state boundaries. Proposed sea-level benchmarks in NSW are the most extreme scenario."

Unclear on the concept: More from the Catlin climate fraud team, who were trying to convince us that the Arctic is overheating

The expedition was initially blighted by unexpectedly cold weather with the wind chill lowering the temperature to about -70C (-90F).

At the time, Mr Hadow came up with a memorable description of their plight: that they were "battered by the wind, bitten by frost, bruised by falls on the ice - and likely to be butchered by the chill."

Ann Daniels, the navigator, medic and cook, told me how it took "true grit" to keep going when temperatures inside the tent were in the "minus thirties".

She told BBC News: "I can remember just sitting there feeling my fingers and my feet getting frost damage and sobbing because I knew that I was really being damaged.

"One of my releases was to sob quietly. The boys weren't there for that to make them feel bad. I would just keep going knowing that, in the end, the beauty would come out and the sun would be shining."

Photographer Martin Hartley suffered frostbite in the first few days.The pain was so bad he considered being airlifted off the ice.

He said: "It was like putting a red-hot knitting needle into my toe and then putting it into my boot with the knitting needle still attached to the toe."

House Global Warming Plan Doesn’t Address Senate Concerns » The Foundry

Waxman-Markey clearly fails to address these valid concerns, but also fails to win approval from last year’s sponsor, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT). This policy proposal would not be well received in the Senate, according to Lieberman, because “The early targets are high — higher than the Senate will accept and higher than what we can do, because they impose too much of a burden, particularly on people in states that burn a lot of coal or produce a lot of electricity.”

When considering Waxman-Markey, policymakers must recognize that a national energy tax is inherently flawed and no amount of handouts or subsidies can minimize that danger.

As if there's only one: The climate scientist who doubts global warming - What if global-warming fears are overblown? - May. 14, 2009

In a Fortune interview, noted climatologist John Christy contends the green crusade to fight climate change is "all cost and no benefit."
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[Q] What about the better-safe-than-sorry argument? Even if there's a chance Gore and Hansen are wrong, shouldn't we still take action in order to protect ourselves from catastrophe, just in case they're right?

[A] The problem is that the solutions being offered don't provide any detectable relief from this so-called catastrophe. Congress is now discussing an 80% reduction in U.S. greenhouse emissions by 2050. That's basically the equivalent of building 1,000 new nuclear power plants all operating by 2020. Now I'm all in favor of nuclear energy, but that would affect the global temperature by only seven-hundredths of a degree by 2050 and fifteen hundredths by 2100. We wouldn't even notice it.