//Sea Level Rise Solution?//

Build houseboats and float above it all.

funny the beaches I have visited for 50 years have not changed except for erosion caused by storms etc. Another imagery problem will need an imagery solution. Maybe a carbon tax!

TL: Build houseboats and float above it all.

Whatever floats your boat. Boom boom. ;-)

Actually I have seen a great deal of change. Especially in North Queensland around Alva Beach. My father said when he was young they had to walk at least a mile over the sand dunes to get to the water. When I was young the beach was right in & they were afraid the hut were going to get washed away. Then a great sand bar appeared with a lagoon between the Beach & the Lifesaver tower. Now it's back to being just a long skinny sand bar which may or may not be there after the next wet season.

The Coast is changing all the time. Except on the Gold Coast where they keep pouring good money after good money in a never ending battle to beat nature. Stupid.

Googling sea level rise reveals that the sea level has been rising fairly consistently at 1.8 - 2.2 millimetres per year since the last ice age. There has been a bit of an increase over the past few years but nothing out of line within the parameters of natural fluctuation.

2.2mm X 10 years = 2.2 centimetres, less than 1 inch per decade in the imperial scale. (Global warming alarmist suggest it could be as much as 4mm per year).

Going on the current trends we can expect the sea to rise possibly a foot (22-25 centimetres)over the next hundred years.

Research on atolls shows the coral can grow at the same pace and some of the Pacific atolls are growing... increasing shore line to match the increase in sea level.
http://www.micronesiaforum.org/index.php?p=/discussion/13749/so-far-most-atolls-winning-the-sea-level-rise-battle/p1

The climate alarmists tell us this is a bad news (in my view as bad as the Y2K threat); there is no doubt in my mind that the impact of population growth over the next hundred years will be far more devastating to humanity.

farmerfisher, there's two more problems with your idea:

Firstly, where would we get all the fresh water? Evaporation from those lakes means there'd be LESS water available for farming.
Secondly, the volume of lakes needed to manage sea levels is absolutely enormous. As an engineer I'm reluctant to declare any scheme impossible, but even with the technology of Star Trek we'd have trouble doing it! Reducing atmospheric CO2 levels would be easy by comparison.

Who is old enough to remember when Barrenjoey was last surrounded by water?
The sand connecting it to the mainland will be an early casualty.