Perhaps this will allow insight to the USA cities that can't get their minds around the Climate Crisis.

Predicted flooding in Brisbane's eastern suburbs if the sea level rises by 1.1 metres.
Photo: Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information.

How about that?  The Plutocracy has destroyed real estate values at the very time they are expecting them to go underwater.

Hm.

Do any of the CEOs stop to realize BOTH demoralizing events could have been avoided?

...Maps released this week (click title to entry - thank you)  show low-lying Brisbane suburbs, including Hemmant, Northgate, Strathpine, Bald Hills and Tingalpa, are most likely to be affected by sea level rises by the year 2100.

Suburbs along the Brisbane River, including Bulimba, New Farm and Woolloongabba, are also at risk of being flooded more frequently....

"We have had a lot of people move to Brisbane and they have chosen to live near this beautiful, idyllic little creek in suburbia. I'm afraid they don't know that it could turn into a raging torrent " 


Predicted flooding in Brisbane's southern suburbs if the sea level rises by 1.1 metres.

 Photo: Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information.

Search continues in rough seas, toll at 30 (click here)

11:30 AM Friday Dec 17, 2010

...Navy and customs officers plucked 42 survivors - including nine children - from the raging surf off the island in the Indian Ocean soon after their boat broke apart and sank.
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said the bodies of a man and a boy aged about 11 had been found in the water by divers early today, raising the death toll to 30.
The boat, carrying up to 100 asylum seekers of Iraqi, Iranian and Kurdish origin, smashed into the jagged, limestone cliffs of Christmas Island, plunging the passengers into massive waves that battered them against the rocks.
Twelve men, nine women and seven children - including four infants - were among the dead, the Customs and Border Protection Service said....