Sea erosion at Hector, 1937.

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DescriptionSea erosion at Hector, is seriously threatening houses and property.
Until a few years ago there was an extensive domain and racing track between the school (extreme left of the picture) and the beach.

From Papers Past.Date of Photo1937.Map^[1]ContributorClaire Ward

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Location (city or town)HectorEventErosion

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CommentsRick Burrows
Yip and John Campbell is still talking about his recent trip to Granity where the coast is suffering from sea level rise ?
Wayne Nicholson
Rick Burrows . Some people just wont believe that high tides and subsequent erosion is cyclic not a recent phenomena or man made !
Rick Burrows
Wayne Nicholson absolutely , and unfortunately when the media report over and over on the same subject extrapolating forecasts out over multiple decades to come to a dramatic conclusion for a headline it becomes rather tedious .If it wasnt for covid an… See More
Caroline Dunlop
Showing how it was even back then.
on McNarn
An absolute shame
Graham Hay
So Climate Change was happening back then.

Clare Pierson
Graham Hay not at the rate that it is happening now.
Elezabeth Peters
There always has been change and always will be. In the 1800s people were skating on the Thames river in London - that hasn't happened for decades. All natural changes. Noting is going to stop because we all buy electric cars!
Wayne Nicholson
Bloody hell , even an El Nino cycle is now seen as catastrophic by the media. They even think cyclones and hurricanes are new !
John White
Wayne Nicholson
Not new but since 1980 packing more and more energy which comes from warming oceans.
Kerry Byrne
John White false. There has been no increase in the severity or frquency of severe storms, only the reporting of them
Wayne Nicholson
Kerry Byrne. That's why they call themselves "newsmakers" instead of reporters.

John White
Kerry Byrne
Mmmmm. Maybe expand your information base away from just Murdoch. Check out NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) or NASA. Oh, and watch Queensland rainfall, storm count and intensity over this summer and you will see climate change & warming oceans live and in action.
Kerry Byrne
John White and yet the biggest storm in Australia's history remains Darwin in 1974, or the one that destroyed everything in 1897. The deadliest hurricane in American history happened in 1900. The largest fire in Australian history occured in 1939 and the Black Friday fire in 1983 was bigger than last years fire.
And that's before even getting into a discussion on the cyclic nature of climate and the WAY higher temperatures historically than today, (Greenland was settled as a farming colony, the Northwest passage was regularly sailed ice free, etc, etc)

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Sea erosion at Hector, 1937.

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