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UNDERWATER TRUDIE IS A NINJA PAGE 37
Dire warning issued for coastal home owners A
REPORT to the Victorian Government is predicting a dire future for local coastal residents, with rising sea levels to threaten homes. While the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council has taken “a conservative approach” to the crisis, coastal mapping shows many of the region’s most popular tourist and residential coastal towns underwater by century’s end. “The most extensive area vulnerable to erosion by 2040 is the Gippsland coast…and the
coast between Cape Paterson and Cape Liptrap in South Gippsland,” the report found. Coastal erosion has already claimed a sizeable chunk of the foreshore at Inverloch, with 33 metres of sand receding since 2012. Geographer and coastal geomorphologist Rob Gell says sea level rises will continue unabated if governments ignore the threat. “Low lying areas will be inundated more and more regularly. The impacts will become progressively more and more frequent, with greater inundation as the oceans warm and icecaps melt,” he said. FULL STORY: PAGE 4.
THE FUTURE? This digitally altered image may seem over the top, but it could be the situation faced by coastal home owners in the future. Photo created by Pete Linforth.
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