SEA levels are set to rise by up to a metre within a century due to global warming, a new Australian report said yesterday as it warned this could make “once-a-century” coastal flooding much more common.

IMPOSING a tax increase that might just pay for two or three tankfuls of petrol on the owner of a €100,000 4X4 is not the kind of vigorous reform needed to force real change in our carbon emissions figures.