Gorean propaganda buggering up a pleasant ride

Ashfield Council, God rot their souls, have decided to use money extracted from their long-suffering rate payers to erect a series of signs around the Bay Run in homage to Al Gore and the IPCC fairy tale. I counted signs like this one at four different locations - I'm sure those Ashfield twits would have erected more, except that the only control a small portion of the Bay Run. That, by the way, is a terribly badly build and maintained section of the Run. Ashfield spend all their money on crap like this and not enough on fixing pot holes and cleaning drains.



The sign reads:

SEA LEVEL RISING TIDE MARKERS

The nearby marker in the water shows the highest local tide levels for the years 1920, 2006 and the anticipated 2050 level.*

Ashfield Council has installed these markers to show the effect of climate change on local sea levels.

* Source: IPCC Third Assessment Report - "Climate CHnage 2001: The Scientific Basis".

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO REDUCE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

• Hang yourself (I put that one in there)
• Walk, cycle of catch publc transport and leave your car at home
• More depressing crap that I will not bore you with

The photo below shows a marker.


Here is another one by the side of the rowing club.


I wonder why these chose the high tide level in 1920? Could it possibly be that 1920 is the lowest high tide on record, thus making the increase look scarily large?