Not atoll.
Posted on 07/25/2025 7:25:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Residents of Tuvalu, one of the world’s lowest-lying island nations, are preparing for a historic migration as the impacts of climate change push the country closer to becoming uninhabitable.
Thousands of Tuvaluans have applied for a new visa program that allows them to relocate to Australia in response to rising sea levels threatening their homeland.
The Pacific Engagement Visa, part of a treaty between Australia and Tuvalu, is the world’s first climate migration agreement. It offers Tuvaluan citizens the opportunity to permanently move to Australia to escape the imminent threat of flooding back home. Only 280 people will be accepted into the program each year, but more than 5,000 residents (nearly half the country's total population) have applied for the first round, which will be determined by random lottery system from now through January of 2026.
The urgency of the response underscores the severity of Tuvalu’s situation. Located in the South Pacific between Australia and Hawaii, Tuvalu consists of nine coral atolls with an average elevation of just six feet above sea level.
Some parts of the islands are only a few dozen feet wide. Even the country’s highest point is only 15 feet above sea level, nowhere near enough protection against the accelerating threat of sea level rise.
(MORE: Island Sells Citizenship To Help Fund Climate Resilience)
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I believe the bottom line is “Who gives a rat’s a**???”
The pictures at the site show the Island from a drone. Then a second from the exact same position of the drone with like half the Island now underwater. Pretty dramatic except for one thing.
Photo #1 2025
Photo #2 2100
Unless they have one of those “future cameras” I call BS on this story.
Just like the Maldives — sediment slowly sinking in the water — that is just as rapidly going down.
More global warming horse pucky.
The sea level rose 6 inches just around this island?
Maybe the island is sinking.
“so garden beds need to be enhanced with mulch and fertiliser to increase”
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Seaweed is used as mulch in the Caribbean.
“How are you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?”
“Maybe the island is sinking”
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Sinking of Pacific islands is helped by building airport runways on them.
(As the CCP has learned recently, just as the Japanese learned before WWII).
AND Japan’s “Kansai International Airport”, which has another 13 feet yet to sink. (!)
They still running this lie/scam?? The Tuvalu island chain has been adding acreage, not sinking.
On the right notice the larger islands. On the left the island get progressively smaller. This is because these island are on a geological conveyor belt. Volcanic activity forms the islands on the rights. Over time these islands drift west on the sea floor and wear down and subside.
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