Must be driving the left and globull warning subset batty.
Got to be Trump.
I wonder if that dip wad still thinks Guam will capsize, if more troops are sent there?
As long as it doesn’t flip over like Hank Johnson thought would happen to Guam.
With the highest elevation being only 4 meters, I’d be more worried about a tsunami that is a real thing as opposed to rising sea levels due to climate change that is fake.
Ping.
I thought this was settled science.
To use the Instapundit.com’s response, “Unexpectedly!”
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Ive been recycling for 20 years. Its finally paying off.
Youre welcome.
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
The most recent data from NASA shows a decline in sea level.
Inconvenient: NASA shows global sea level pausing, instead of rising
“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.
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.