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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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Climate change is under their beds at night.
1 posted on 07/25/2025 7:25:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They have been saying Tuvalu was about tho submerge for 20 years or more. Why is anyone still there?


2 posted on 07/25/2025 7:29:13 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looked at a few pictures and all I saw was one big garbage pit


3 posted on 07/25/2025 7:31:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Agitprop. Political theater.


4 posted on 07/25/2025 7:31:48 AM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will they work when they move or will taxpayers someplace else support them ?


5 posted on 07/25/2025 7:32:47 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should be more worried about tsunamis.


6 posted on 07/25/2025 7:35:01 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nonsense. This has been happening for thousands of years. Depending on weather patterns Tuvalu floods or has drought due to how incredibly close it sits to the sea level. It basically a giant sand bar in the ocean.

This scam has been pushed for decades by the “Church of Global Warming” to to “prove” their religion “true”.


7 posted on 07/25/2025 7:35:38 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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Oh Noes!
8 posted on 07/25/2025 7:35:58 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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The island is probably sinking! Eroding away


9 posted on 07/25/2025 7:36:28 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Average elevation is 6 feet above sea level
Sea level rose nearly 6 inches over 30 years
Predicting another 28 inches over 75 years?

The forecast is not believable.

It sounds like Tuvalu has always been like this, but now they can blame Climate Change. Climate is always changing since the beginning of time. It is now a crisis and you can package anything you like into the Climate Change box.


10 posted on 07/25/2025 7:37:24 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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The island is probably sinking! Eroding away

That's exactly what is happening. Almost all Pacific islands are volcanic in origin, and these wear away at a surprisingly rapid rate, if not sustained by active volcanic additions. This is how the numerous atolls form.

11 posted on 07/25/2025 7:40:59 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where do they bury people?


12 posted on 07/25/2025 7:41:42 AM PDT by alternatives?
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--- "applied for a new visa program that allows them to relocate to Australia"

Climate? Not the real issue.

Per capita income in Tuvalu is TEN TIMES LESS than Australia, which is a moderate welfare state. Clothed in climate, it looks like other than it is. Economic migration. Australia will pay and pay some more.

13 posted on 07/25/2025 7:44:55 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Where do they bury people?

Probably throw them in that pond garbage pit


14 posted on 07/25/2025 7:45:26 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Bob434

It will likely tip over like that democrap said about Guam.


15 posted on 07/25/2025 7:46:10 AM PDT by hdbc
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re just looking for a chance to escape their shtthole country and get fat on welfare somewhere in the first world.


16 posted on 07/25/2025 7:47:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Tuvalu consists of nine coral atolls with an average elevation of just six feet above sea level.

Do atolls eventually sink? If corals and reef sand isn't produced fast enough to keep up with sinking islands or rising seas, the atolls will eventually drown - just as has happened in the most northwest of the Hawaiian Islands. it's sinking, yet they blame it on climate change and rising oceans. So they nned to LIE to maintain this hoax.

17 posted on 07/25/2025 7:49:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: fwdude
Almost all Pacific islands are volcanic in origin, and these wear away at a surprisingly rapid rate, if not sustained by active volcanic additions. This is how the numerous atolls form.

Nothing to do with climate change. The Polynesians moved from island to island. I'm sure that they had to deal with an island that had disappeared.

Seems like we are ignorant about geology.

18 posted on 07/25/2025 7:50:35 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Jenn Jordan

The coral reef is sinking, nothing to do with the climate change rising seas melting glaciers hoax.

19 posted on 07/25/2025 7:51:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Odd that the seas are riding there but not on beaches near me.


20 posted on 07/25/2025 7:53:23 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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