If your coastal home could be threatened by flooding 80 years from now, would you want to know?

If your home is at risk of being flooded in 80 years' time because of climate change — would you want to know? And would you be happy if others knew the possible dangers when you tried to sell it?

Floodwater pushes boats over a park at Gympie Terrace in Noosa in 2012.

The threat of climate change to Australia's coastal areas is on the mind of some, with news the luxury seaside shire of Noosa in south-east Queensland is formally declaring a "climate emergency". 

Around the world, about 740 governments have done the same, including many in Australia along with world cities such as Paris and New York.

But that is not all.

The Noosa Shire is also working out which parts of its coastline are at risk from climate change, and which plots of highly valuable land could be at risk of flooding in the future.

Read the story from The Age by Owen Jacques - “If your coastal home could be threatened by flooding 80 years from now, would you want to know?”