Pacific island thought to be sinking is actually growing

American Thinker ^ | 02/10/2016 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

"Save Tuvalu, save the world" was the battle cry at the 2015 climate conference in Peru.  The prime minister of that tiny Pacific island nation begged the conference to keep his country from "disappearing."

Independent:

Enele Spoaga arrived in Brussels on Monday to call on [E.U.] leaders for support ahead of the next [U.N.] climate change summit in Paris in December.

The group of islands, home to just 10,000 people, is under direct threat by rising sea levels due to climate change as it is no more than 4m above sea level at its highest level.

"If this island disappears under water, it is not the end of climate change.  And I ask you[:] what future do we hold?  We need to collaborate as one human face to save human[]kind.

"We are told that even 2 degrees global warming is too dangerous as it would mean that Tuvalu would disappear under the water.  Yes[,] we can move the Tuvalu inhabitants to other peoples' lands but it will not stop climate change."

Tuvalu is one of several island chains in the Pacific ... vulnerable to rising sea levels.

Heartrending, isn't it?  The Paris Accords on climate change adopted a "climate mitigation" program that would have helped save Tuvalu from certain disaster.

But how "certain" is it?  A study by the University of Auckland discovered that, far from "disappearing," the island atolls that make up the nation are actually growing.

[Mark17]

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[a fool in paradise]

“it is no more than 4m above sea level at its highest level.”

So passing waves and rising tides already flood the “islamds” daily?

Sounds like a sandbar.

[niteowl]

A pretty good explanation of this (how coral atolls can actually gain land even as sea levels rise) was given by Willis Eschenbach on Anthony Watt’s site about eight years ago.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/27/floating-islands/

And no, it doesn’t claim that these islands can tip over. Basically they are a balance between sand deposit and erosion, but as sea level gets higher “the balance tips in favor of sand and rubble being added to the atoll”. Willis claims that this was first documented by Charles Darwin.

One of the best science blogs around.

[Fai Mao]

Hank Johnson is hated here. Guamians are a bit touchy about people dissing our pretty island

http://www.guam-beaches.com/

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[taxesareforever]

He’s probably suggesting that the U.S. put troops on it to make it stop rising.

[Mark17]

Hank Johnson is hated here. Guamians are a bit touchy about people dissing our pretty island

When I first heard that idiot say it, I thought he was joking. He wasn’t joking. What an idiot.

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