'The Gympie Times' is your not average local newspaper informing its readers of the flooding probability in its municipality under the heading 'Coast's climate change future'. But despite the article reader's responded to the question 'Do you believe the flooding predictions? with 63% no; 23% yes and 10% not sure! It challenges our approach to informing people of what the future holds. If you don't like the message you simply don't agree with it!
'Inskip Point and its campgrounds will be mostly under water at some high tides and will probably disappear into the ocean because of storm erosion and channel migration, according to Queensland government forecasts of climate change effects on the Cooloola shoreline. The government’s strongly favoured but locally controversial Fraser Coast marina plan will also be in trouble, with its entire Norman Point location under more than a metre of water. The same fate is predicted for the Tin Can Bay Esplanade and most of the town’s foreshore on both the Tin Can Inlet and Snapper Creek sides of its peninsula. The Rainbow Shores Stage II project will find itself on a much narrower and more vulnerable Inskip Peninsula, with much of its western side turned to tidal swamp. Islands in the Tin Can Inlet are mostly predicted to disappear or to remain only as tidal sandbanks'.
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