The effects of climate change..

Climate change for QLD


"Rising sea-level, stronger tropical cyclones and increased intensity of oceanic storm surges are likely with climate change. A study has shown that tropical cyclone intensity around Cairns in northern Queensland could increase by up to 20% by about 2050. Stronger cyclones would increase the flood level associated with a 1-in-100 year flood in Cairns from the present height of 2.3 metres to 2.6 metres; a rise in sea-level of 0.1 to 0.4 metres would result in the flood level increasing further to 2.7 to 3.0 metres. This would result in flooding occurring over an area about twice that historically affected" (CSIRO)




Rising Sea Levels

Josh photoshopped images from http://flood.firetree.net to give us an idea of what the rising sea levels will do to the Asian countries as they won't affect very far into Australia. We envisaged that most of the climate refugees would come from Asian counties, like Bangkok.

While we're not predicting higher than a 1m sea level rise, it's easy to see the devastating impact sea level rises on their own are going to have.

 0m Sea Level Rise

 1m Sea Level Rise

 2m Sea Level Rise

 Storm Data 
Our second point of interest is the effect that climate change will have on the intensity and frequency of storms. 

There are so many articles that I have found that highlight the irrefutable evidence that we are changing the planet and the climate and so mach scary analysis of how bad things are going to get. These are the things we need to investigate for Woodfordia, how does the architecture withstand this, how do the communities function, how can we learn to rebuild quickly from horrendous storms?

References:
CSIRO. "Climate change impacts for Australia". Accessed 25/8/2012. http://www.csiro.au/files/files/p3ct.pdf .