Okay, Chelsea, this one is one of our themed
fringy minis. And this is in the category of
rich people's emotions. Ah, you know, I was wondering
what they've been up to. Yeah, I mean, most of
them took a break because they were all at Bezos'
wedding, but they went back to their homes and
found that they had fallen into the ocean. So
now we're hearing about this. It all makes sense.
This article comes from Oh, that's right. I went
into 12 foot so I don't know where this one came
from. One second. What? I had to deal through
ad blocker. Oh, the paywall. Yeah, the paywall
blocker. The paywall jumper. Yeah, so I need
to find where it's at. This one comes from The
Age, which I believe is an Australian news organization.
It is Written on July 3rd, 2025, article title.
Australia, hey? Yeah. We grabbed the cat and
got out. The waterside dwellers facing rising
sea levels. Jesus, they really stayed there for
a long time. Oh, you got to see these pictures.
There's a really nice infinity pool that has
taken that very literal and turned itself into
the ocean. Wow. Like, I'm assuming this didn't
just happen overnight either. They're just going
to ride it out. Yeah, no, it was real. Here,
look at this picture. I was just trying to Google
it. Wow, that pool is on the beach. I was picturing
something else though. Even more so than I think
they wanted it to be. Yeah, it's fallen off the
side onto the beach. It is not the beach coming
to the infinity pool conveniently filling the
pool. It's not that. On April 1st, just before
midnight, as a 2 .1 meter king tide smashed the
New South Wales coastline, real estate agent
and father -to -be Steve Somadellas got up for
a drink of water underneath the floorboards of
his low -set 1950s brick house at Doll's point
on the southern reaches of Sydney's Botany Bay,
you could hear gushing water. The tide had breached
the seawall, protecting the foreshore, inundating
the waterfront promenade, main roadway, and beachfront
houses. Dellis's house a block back from the
beach water was seeping into the laundry and
lapping at the sunroom doors in the driveway
the bonnet of his wife's car was underwater I
don't know what the bonnet of a car is Chelsea
can I can you google australian for me I think
that's I think it's the front and if not then
what is okay keep going I'll come back yeah okay
quote I called out to my wife we're flooding
Minutes later, seawater was swirling above the
top step. Just as Salmadellas and his pregnant
wife Stephanie were attempting to climb out a
side window, the SCS arrived to evacuate them.
The street flooded to knee height along with
the beachfront strip and two neighboring streets.
Water rose through the floorboards of their house
and sand was dumped across their front yard.
They lost two fridges and a couch and Stephanie's
car was a write -off. Between rising sea levels
and more frequent extreme weather events, Australia's
coastlines are being battered by the very visible
effects of climate change. Has the dream of living
by the beach become a nightmare? And what will
Australia's coastline look like in a decade to
come? Quote, decades. Also blame infrastructure
interventions on Botany Bay, including two airport
runways and a desalination plant, which they
say have changed the title patterns. Quote, is
it worth it? Yeah, for a place like this it is,
end quote, says Salmadellas. Quote, I can see
the beach and its beautiful area. We won't leave
over something like this, end quote. Okay. Okay.
They are going to complain to the government
though, guaranteed. Oh probably, I was the president.
I'm waiting for that part of the article. Bad
news for Australia's coastal loving communities
is that rising sea levels are leading to more
frequent and extreme events resulting in severe
coastal erosions and inundation of low -lying
areas. The drivers behind coastal erosion are
complex tidal patterns, storm systems, ocean
temperature and broader climate cycles like El
Niños and La Niña, but rising sea levels complicate
the picture further. The recent East Coast Low,
described by meteorologists as a bomb cyclone
and the first to hit the New South Wales coast
since 2022, has brought the topic into sharp
focus. It's likely to cause coastal erosion and
damage to infrastructure between Seal Rocks and
the New South Wales -Victorian border. Coastal
erosion expert associate professor Mitchell Harley
says there's no evidence that East Coast lows
have become more frequent or severe in recent
years. However, rising sea levels means their
impact on the built coastline will be more profound.
East Coast lows are the subject of ongoing research,
says Harley, as present climate models lack the
resolution to truly capture their unpredictable
behavior. Sea levels have been on an upward trajectory
since records were first collected in the 1880s,
but satellite monitoring over the past three
decades shows a clear pattern. Not only are sea
levels rising, the rate is accelerating. The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released
its sixth report published in 2021, found a global
mean sea level rise per year of 3 .2 mm from
1993 to 2015 and 3 .6 mm from 2006 to 2015. A
2024 NASA analysis of satellite data found a
faster than expected rise last year alone. largely
due to thermal expansion of seawater. Scientists
had anticipated an increase of 4 .3 millimeters,
but instead recorded 5 .9 millimeters, a direct
result of 2024 being the hottest year on record.
And that's a weird thing to think about too,
Chelsea, that sea levels rising isn't just like
ice melting and raising the volume of ocean.
Warmer water expands. Like that's what it does.
It expands. So even if more ice was melting to
get into the ocean, the water warming is going
to make the ocean bigger. I never thought about
that. I know. Me neither. We just need to melt
some more of the ice caps so that it cools the
ocean down. Exactly. It'll balance it out. I
think that's probably what they're thinking right
now. That's the long -term plan for global warming
right there. Yeah, exactly. Right out of Futurama.
Yeah. Though these increments sound minuscule,
the impact on coastal communities can be monumental.
Quote, as a general rule of thumb, for every
10 centimeters of sea level rise, you might see
three times more extreme flooding events depending
on your location. End quote says Dr. Julian O
'Grady, a sea level scientist with the CSIRO.
The IPCC's projections for sea level rise are
sobering. They vary depending on location. Geez,
is everybody in Australia drunk? The IPCC's projections
for sea level rises are sobering. They vary depending
on the location and whether we can meet Paris
agreement and mission targets. Even if global
warming is limited to 1 .5 degrees above pre
-industrial levels, the IPCC is predicting a
global sea level rise of 0 .15 to 0 .23 meters
by 2050. By 2100, under very high emission scenarios,
it could be one meter. Extreme sea level events
that occur once per century will be 20 to 30
times more frequent by 2050, the IPCC says. Along
with New South Wales coast, state government
data predicts rises of up to 2 .3 meters by 2100
and 5 .5 meters by 2150 under very high emissions.
Figures which unlike the IPCCs include the impact
of melting ice sheets. CSIRO modeling for Melbourne's
Port Phillip Bay released in 2024 predicts council
areas like Hobson Bay, Greater Yilong, Frankston
and Mornington Peninsula could see three times
the current degrees of sea level inundation under
a scenario in which sea levels rise by 1 .4 meters
by 21. That king tides, extreme weather and storm
surges, and it's a disastrous picture for anyone
living within a few blocks of a beach. O 'Grady
knows just how vulnerable Australia's coastline
is, both as a scientist and as a beach lover.
His family camps each year at Pambula Beach on
the New South Wales coast. Several decades ago,
a storm eroded the front row of campsites. The
local community restored a wide, vegetated dune,
a natural barrier that now protects campsites
and caravan park. Quote, my kids hear the story
every year. says O 'Grady, who explains to them
that regular tides and even king tides are highly
unpredictable, but it's the forces caused by
anthropogenic climate change, leading to heavier
rain events, more intense cyclones, and rising
sea levels caused by glacial melting and thermal
expansion that are pushing ocean water further
onto land and increasing the potential for coastal
erosion. O 'Grady and his team are tracking how
often these events occur, how high sea levels
rise during them, and how climate change is increasing
their frequency and intensity and providing web
-based tools and data for local councils. Though
coastal councils are doing a great deal to understand
and adapt, he says, quote, but we need to keep
providing information about climate change and
sea level rise and how that might impact the
coast, end quote. There's a lot of this article
left, so I'm just going to skip down to see if
there's anything about bailouts. for the rich
people okay i would love to know about that and
i really hope that it doesn't come up i really
worry for the rich they they're just returning
from jesus's wedding you know i don't see anything
in here that's probably far enough then for the
oh wait just gonna skip ahead it starts talking
about the whites i have to assume that's the
last name of somebody they're talking to at some
point this is capitalized but i don't know for
sure It's a question the whites can't bear to
ask themselves. In their mind, they tally the
collective value of homes at immediate risk.
About 200 homes worth roughly a million dollars
each, plus the town's sewage system, a caravan
park, and the RACV club resort. If the coast
road is breached, the town will be cut off from
Cape Paterson and the RACV resort, which is a
major employer in the town and vital infrastructure
will be destroyed. The thought is overwhelming
for everyone. We have not looked at an alternative.
It's too depressing. says Allison. Quote, at
our stage of life we're not ready for a retirement
village and I doubt whether any compensation
you get back would be worth what you put in.
That's probably far enough and also kind of out
of context and doesn't tell you much. I really
hope that was their last name. I do love that
you jumped back in with the weights with Milconte.
Yeah, this is a great place to go in and finish
off. It was. Yeah, exactly. I have comments.
Number one, I really hope that the orcas take
advantage of this and start now attacking actual
mansions instead of just yachts. I feel like
there's really opportunity to up their game here.
I've seen it. The Argentinian orcas. They can
hunt on land. Like they push in and come in and
then come back out. Oh yeah. Watch Whales on
Disney Plus, I think. It explains how orcas in
Argentina specifically, or Chile, it's South
America somewhere, develop this hunting scheme
where they like push things onto land and then
beach themselves. Whoa, he's on the beach. Yeah,
and then go back in. I love those guys. So yeah,
I mean, the billionaires on the coastline in
South America are kind of screwed. Which leads
me to my next point. I was thinking while you
were doing this, I was like, oh no, the billion
- are gonna scrap the beach idea and they're
gonna move to the hills so then they get the
second best views and the safety they're gonna
go to the mountains so then they look down and
they see the beach from afar but it really made
me happy because they're just gonna protect us
because we'll never be able to afford the beach
so they'll just serve as a border like a wall
some may say between the ocean the rich and everybody
else You mean these abandoned houses? No, the
people who are still in there because I'm not
sure if it... I mean it probably was the whites
that made the comment that... the view is still
worth it losing their house to the ocean i think
we actually did cover that in one too remember
i think it was in nantucket where somebody paid
like 200 000 for a house that was definitely
going to go into the ocean yeah he's just like
yeah i can afford it so well i'm just gonna lose
them i can afford it and i like if i sell it
now it's just not gonna be worth the same amount
so i might as well stay so they're just gonna
take it apparently they're not gonna move to
the hills like some of them won't probably do
But I can't afford that property, so I'll just
let them be the first to go. I have no problem
doing that at all. I also feel like the story
I got from this article, too, is everybody who's
been flooded did not learn a single lesson from
it. Nope. The guy's like, yeah, still, I'm not
moving. Yeah. I called the cops. They made some
arrests of the oceans and we're going to get
bailed out. They're going to build the sand back
up and we're all going to be fine. And then the
orcas come in and they're the best in my experience.
Yeah. Third thing I have to read to you, the
bonnet of a car. called the hood in north america
is the hinged cover that sits over the engine
compartment at the front of most vehicles the
purpose first bullet point protects the engine
and components like the battery radiator and
belt second bullet point provides access for
maintenance and repairs and third bullet point
often includes insulation for nose reduction
and heat protection. So that's what that is.
So they call the hood the bonnet and the trunk
the boot. Do they think cars are people? They
think they're babies. I just wanted to make sure.
That's how you refer to a baby, right? You call
the bonnet side or the boot side of a baby. But
it is the boot. No, because they got booties.
Yeah, yeah, it's a baby. Okay. This might actually
help me understand Australians better. And hey,
you guys got 48 hours, you just sit on this.
This will help you understand Australians better
and probably interact with them on their level
now. Anyhow, bye. Bye.