Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Convinced catastrophic global warming is an imminent reality? Want to make some fast money based on your belief? Australian bookmaker Sportsbet.com.au is willing to take your money, to place a bet on which Australian beach will be the first to “disappear” due to rising sea levels.
According to The Telegraph;
Australian bookmaker takes bets on first beaches to ‘disappear’ due to global warming
Betting agency Sportsbet.com.au says rising seas are threatening the nation’s beaches and invited bets on the first to go, with Palm Cove in Queensland at 4-1 favourite.
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Sportsbet.com.au, an Australian betting agency, listed Palm Cove, a tropical beach in northern Queensland, as 4-1 favourite to be the first to disappear because of rising sea levels, followed by Whitehaven beach at 5-1, Darwin’s Mindil Beach at 6-1 and Noosa and Byron Bay, which have odds of $AUS7.50.
Well-known beaches in Sydney such as Palm Beach – famous for its role as Summer Bay in Home and Away – and the popular tourist destinations of Manly and Bondi were paying much longer odds of $AUS19 (£9), $21 (£10) and $21 (£10) respectively.
The agency said Nasa’s “gloomy prediction” that sea levels will rise much faster than previously thought had left Australian beaches in a perilous position.
There is no news as yet on whether Sportsbet will take bets on other alarmist favourites, such as predicting the “end of snow“, or an ice free arctic, but if enough people show an interest, I’m sure some bookmaking agency will consider adding these prophesied events to their list of available wagers.
And who knows – if you lose enough money, when sea level fails to rise as predicted, maybe you could sue NASA to get your money back.
IMPORTANT: online gambling is illegal in some jurisdictions – please ensure you are fully aware of applicable laws, before placing a bet
“…if you lose enough money, when sea level fails to rise as predicted…”
Hold on now! Following Climate Science Alarmist common and accepted practices, if the above happens you should be able to double down with someone else’s money, no?
Talking of Aussie bookmakers. When I worked for HP, TABCORP, a betting/gambling/casino company, outsourced all their operations to us. They were bound by state regulations so setup a new web based betting site in the Northern Territory, which had no such regulation. I never had any involvement in the betting application, but I setup all the management systems (Unicentre). http://www.luxbet.com. Not sure if they are running a similar scam, but it would not surprise me.
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Awesome site. The odds for Hilly-Billy is 2.10, Jeb Bush “I am Hispanic” is 5.0 and The Donald is 7.5.
Better than a web site is buying stock or invest in a ETF.
How about GOFPY Greece Football Prognostics SA OTC Mkt. I jumped in before the Troika War against Greece. Stock has a net Dividend of 9.24!
Ride the wave baby! 🙂
Ha ha
Noosa Main Beach is artificially sustained by pumping sand.
So, either it has already gone, you win.
Or, they will just pump more sand and it will last as long as people want, you lose.
Anyone find or get the SportBet’s full terms and conditions for this novelty bet. Hilariously categorized as current affairs- straight novelty bet like end of the world sounds more like it.
“a fool and his money are soon parted”
This had to be re-written a bit for Tim Flannery.
a fool and his (government) money are eventually parted
Ya gotta be kidding me.
There is a horse race going off in 5 minutes at Del Mar, I’m torn between horses named “One Last Shot” and “Sheeza Milky Way”.
My money went on the former, that jinx was not anything personal by the way.
Came in 2nd behind “Jakaby Jade” , a Great Britain import, drats !!
$2 to win and place, gave me a profit of $ 1.40
Onward and upward !!
Are bettors aware that there has been essentially no sea level rise in Australia for about 174 years?
http://soer.justice.tas.gov.au/2003/casestudy/4/
A bookmaker like Sportsbet doesn’t take bets unless they think there’s profit in it.
Horses, football games, mud crab races, glaciers, beaches…………..it’s all the same, just probability .
My bet would be to buy shares in Sportsbet
A sucker and there money are easily parted , although I would never place a bet on this , I would happily bet St Gore and friends will also never place a bet on this either .
In India cricket betting is a big business. Even after exposing this this still flourishes. The students are wasting their time in watching such tash matches and employed wasting their man hours causing losses to the employee. In this world such bad characters thrive. Unfortunately governments are also encouraging such games.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
If all those people worked efficiently there would be no need for so many government employees and they would all be unemployed and still collect taxpayer’s money through employment insurance; welfare or whatever. ;^D
The smart money is betting on the bookies.
Mark Twain told the story of the competitor who filled his opponent’s frog with lead shot when he wasn’t looking – didn’t jump far.
What are the ‘odds’ that an Alarmist will make a bet?
Time to change careers and become a bookie. Looks like there’s lots of suckers out there ready to hand over their cash!
Hmmm, this sounds like a small scam being run off the back of a much bigger scam. There might even be a whiff of a cynical hoax in the mix there somewhere.
Two years ago my beautiful wife and I vacationed on Turtle Island, Fiji for our 40th wedding anniversary. This is the island on which the movie Blue Lagoon was filmed. In the resort bar, one of my favorite places on the island, there were three aerial photos of the island posted on a wall. The first was taken in the late 1960’s, the second in the 1980’s, and the third in 2006. The intent of the pictures was to show how the owner had restored the forests and improved the habitat, a very laudable objective. However, as a CAGW skeptic, and avid WUWT follower, I was more interested in seeing if there were any visible changes in the shoreline of the island due to the “accelerating rise in sea level” (sarc). It may have been the passion fruit Marguritas, but I could not detect a noticeable difference in the size or shape of the island, or the extent of the 14 beaches over the nearly fifty year timespan.
I have recently retired and moved to the Big Island (Hawaii). This island has several beaches that “disappear” from time to time due to storms and intense surf, but not from sea level change. A famous black sand beach was replaced by lava from the Kiluea volcano a number of years ago, and a new black sand beach is forming nearby. The big changes to the land and climate are caused by nature, not man (except when the EPA gets involved ;-). I wouldn’t take a bet either way on a specific beach “disappearing”, but I would be very surprised if any beach, anywhere were to disappear due to human caused climate change.
P.S. My house is two miles inland at 800′ elevation, because it was affordable; not that I am worried about sea level rise, but there is the occasional tsunami.
Can you also bet on no beaches disappearing?
It sounds like a new outlet for money laundering. How many bets are from Macau?