"2030 climate change may have already occurred in the Canberra region" ...

http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/downloads/submissions/26%20Actew.pdf

This is a submission to the ACT legislative assembly by the managing director of ACTEW Corporation, Mark Sullivan. It contains much of what I have already posted on. However, there is one key paragraph:

"It would be prudent in a risk management framework for Government to identify policies and implement programs based on the assumption that 2030 climate change may have already occurred in the Canberra region."

I wonder if the public of the ACT understands this; I wonder if the federal government understands this. We know that the federal opposition sure doesn't ...