Is this your waterfront block? Mapping predicted sea level rise (3)

This is the advertised view from one NSW North Coast vacant building block selling for almost, but not quite, half a million dollars.

Notice the relative 'newness' of the canals and the nice soft, sandy shoreline.

This is exactly the type of land which is considered at risk in the Rudd Government's recent report Climate Change Risks to Australia's Coasts
that contains a 1.1 metre predicted sea level rise as its worse case scenario for New South Wales over the next ninety years.

This is Google Earth mapping of a sea level rise in the same area of only 1 metre.

Caveat emptor.

Time to show your vote to world leaders at U.N. Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen 7-18 Dec 2009

It's time to stand up and be counted at Show Your Vote.

A new Australian-inspired website is recording individual and organisation climate change action votes by country, state and post code so that world leaders might understand that ordinary people want action now.

Voting results will be presented in a petition to the UN Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen 2009.

Take a minute and register your vote.

Northern Rivers Art: an eclectic mix

Midnight by Matthew Farrell

Afternoon Walk
by Susan Simoni

Boobook 2007 by Noel Caldwell

All images can be found at Arts Northern Rivers:Visual Arts Network

Sistas commenting on new political leaders in Australia

''I would rather eat my first born than vote for Abbott . . ."

Right on sista!

Won't Go Back For Any Man
Grafton

Could we have a worse situation than former seminarian Tony Abbott in charge of the Liberal Party in Canberra?
Yes, we can have the far-right misogynist Abbott installed at federal level and the Centre Unity very right-wing and pious Kristina 'I'm so superior' Keneally as the new NSW Premier and puppet fronting the big developers control of the Labor Government.

Kaarin
Byron

Guest Speak is a North Coast Voices segment allowing serious or satirical comment from NSW Northern Rivers residents. Email ncvguestpeak at live dot com dot au to submit comment for consideration.