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Thousands Apply To Relocate As Island Nation Of Tuvalu Races Against Rising Seas
weather ^ | 07/24/2025 | Jenn Jordan

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)

(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...


TOPICS: Reference; Society; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: apply; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; island; nation; races; relocate; rising; seas; thousands; tuvalu

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To: left that other site

I believe the bottom line is “Who gives a rat’s a**???”


61 posted on 07/25/2025 10:41:47 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


62 posted on 07/25/2025 10:55:11 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Just like the Maldives — sediment slowly sinking in the water — that is just as rapidly going down.
More global warming horse pucky.


63 posted on 07/25/2025 11:23:42 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"The NASA Sea Level Change Team, using satellite data and projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), reports that sea levels around Tuvalu are already nearly 6 inches higher than they were 30 years ago."

The sea level rose 6 inches just around this island?

Maybe the island is sinking.

64 posted on 07/25/2025 11:40:10 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: gundog
The forecast is not believable.

Not atoll.



65 posted on 07/25/2025 11:50:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: higgmeister

“so garden beds need to be enhanced with mulch and fertiliser to increase”
.
Seaweed is used as mulch in the Caribbean.


66 posted on 07/25/2025 12:47:11 PM PDT by Does so ("Trump said today, "I'm with Ukraine". You?.....🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞≣ ½¼)
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To: Salvavida

“How are you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?”


67 posted on 07/25/2025 12:54:39 PM PDT by Does so ("Trump said today, "I'm with Ukraine". You?.....🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞≣ ½¼)
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To: yesthatjallen

“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. (!)

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/japan-airport-built-on-water-is-sinking-into-sea-all-about-kansai-internationl-airport-engineering-marvel/articleshow/106644731.cms?from=mdr


68 posted on 07/25/2025 1:12:51 PM PDT by Does so ("Trump said today, "I'm with Ukraine". You?.....🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞≣ ½¼)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They still running this lie/scam?? The Tuvalu island chain has been adding acreage, not sinking.


69 posted on 07/25/2025 1:40:37 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Does so
These are the Hawaiian islands.

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.


70 posted on 07/25/2025 2:22:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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