AT: The constant media refrain that man-caused global warming is dooming many small Pacific islands to sink beneath rising sea levels continues, even as science – and in one case the former president of an “endangered” island – refutes the alarmists, as Andrew Holt of the Herald-Sun in Australia reports:
[A] new paper by Virginie K. E. Duvat, of the Institut du Littoral et de l’Environnement, University of la Rochelle, France:
A reanalysis of available data, which cover 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls including 709 islands, reveals that no atoll lost land area and that 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted[.] …
Over the recent past, 29 atolls exhibited a stable land area, while one (South Tarawa, Kiribati) increased in size[.]
The state-owned broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is particularly relentless in its propagandizing over the purported doom facing the Micronesian islands in its geographic neighborhood, recently rather comically so. As Bolt recalled, just a couple of weeks ago, a television news presenter tried to goad the former president of Kiribati into playing the victim card and face-planted:
Host Fran Kelly, one of the ABC’s most committed warmists, today asked an ex-president of Kiribati, Anote Tong, how much his islands were drowning, and criticised the current president for saying they weren’t.
Kelly: The urgency of addressing climate change has intensified…
Tong: For those countries on the front line, their fate is virtually doomed… Global warming will continue, the sea level rise will continue…
Kelly: These are the predictions, what is the reality now… What is the situation now, how perilous is it?
Tong: …I’ve always been very frank and honest to say I don’t see the sea level rising, but what I see is impact in various communities and you get overtopping of the waves and over the land… It may not be the rise in sea level that would be the most immediate problem. I think the change in the weather pattern is more likely to be the more immediate and it has already happened. (snip)
But, if those islands were to grow too much, won’t they tip over?
Dammit, I’ve already collected the insurance for the potential loss of my Pacific island beachfront property. They had better not want the money back.
Both the Maldives and the polar bears, should have been a memory by now.
NoooOOOOO! You Science™ denying peasants have destroyed my semi-private island beach-front estate! Now all that’s left is a semi-private island beach-view slum! NoooOOOOO!
Growing or sinking at a rate of an inch per year is more likely Continental drift vs global warming
@Wyatt, I think the Allstate Insurance guy is looking for you
global warming is a hoax
All hail St. Algore of the Church of the Warming Orb. Piss be upon him.
The square footage of the portion of the earth covered by shitholes just slightly increased
Where I live used to be the bottom of the ocean
The land rose
It can also fall
This stuff reminds me of the Gilligan’s Island episode where the Professor used sticks in the lagoon to judge the tides, and Gilligan used them to tie shrimp traps to them moved them farther and farther out into deeper water
Thus the Island was sinking
And, while the US has had a warmer than usual fall, Canada has had a colder than usual one.
I guess climate change has a political preference.
We’re not saying “Global Warming” is a hoax; the planet as well as specific areas have changed temperatures radically over eons. What we call ice ages vs temperate periods.
What we’re saying is there is no evidence that man has effected any changes; mainly because the planet’s weather systems and geology were doing that long before we all started using fire.
“the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is particularly relentless in its propagandizing…” On american TV, you can’t get away from it either. Every show on TV, from Smithsonian, to the History Channel, and NatGeo, along with all the networks are constantly beating the drum for global warming.
South Pacific’s Dick Island is expected to rise a big 10 inches this year.