by ACS.Admin | Aug 8, 2026 | Blog, Climate Change, Legal
A curse can be a great misfortune, a severe life burden or, and I like this one, a constant source of trouble. So how may the wonderful discipline of geomorphology cause trouble? Here I am not referring to any individual geomorphologist—heaven forbid! It is what we...
by kapow | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog, Climate Change
ICA REPORT: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT “ACTIONS OF THE SEA” AND FUTURE RISKS Collaroy-Narrabeen Beach, Sydney (October 2021) On 17 November, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) released a report in their Climate Change Impact Series on “actions of the sea”. A...
by kapow | Nov 12, 2021 | Blog, Climate Change
NATIONAL CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION STRATEGY (NCRAS) On 29 October, the Minister for the Environment released NCRAS ahead of COP 26 in Glasgow. Quite clearly debate on emissions control has dominated this conference. Emphasis on impacts of climate change,...
by kapow | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, Climate Change
Strombus Bubonius (Photo credit: Irene Thom) Many of us are obsessed with the Last Interglacial (LIG or Stage 5e MIS). Between c. 130000 and 115000, global mean temperatures appear to have been slightly warmer by 1 to 2 degrees than present. Global mean sea level...
by kapow | Jul 5, 2021 | Blog, Climate Change
Last Intergalcial site stands out as a terrace abutting a bedrock ridge Just 8km north of Maitland in the NSW Hunter Valley lies the small village of Largs. It is adjacent to the growing urban precinct of Bolwarra Heights, but its rural character remains intact with...
by kapow | Mar 14, 2021 | Blog, Climate Change
Over the past three decades or so much has been written on the response of wetland ecosystems bordering estuarine waterways to sea-level rise. In some ways this followed many geological studies supported by radiocarbon dating and lots of coring in marshes and swamps...