Posted on 06/02/2010 3:13:54 PM PDT by HospiceNurse
One of the highest profile islands - in a political sense - was Tuvalu, where politicians and climate change campaigners have repeatedly predicted it will be drowned by rising seas, as its highest point is 4.5 metres above sea level. But the researchers found seven islands had spread by more than 3 percent on average since the 1950s.
(Excerpt) Read more at tvnz.co.nz ...
But are they tipping over?
Only in the Democrat strongholds of North Carolina - or maybe it was South Carolina. Islands are very unstable in that part of the country.
Good interview of an expert;
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf
Maybe they’re just mowing the grass differently, parting it on the other side or something.
Maybe they are using a lawn toupe, causing the islands to look younger, more vibrant.
Perhaps the island looks bigger because the island barber cut the grass shorter than usual, and it looks like there’s a lot more beach.
Maybe they had a beach lift, something a lot of older islands are doing these days.
Perhaps the island is just dating a younger island, and it makes it look more vibrant by association.
Perhaps Conservatives have been secretly sneaking in nuclear subs and blowing up the island with water, a lot like out of California chicken farmers do with chickens. (just kidding folks)
Perhaps Conservatives have been secretly using salt water in their toilet holding tanks, thus causing the sea level to drop.
Perhaps Al Gore got out of the water.
It was probably temporary shrinkage from being in the water..
The water there is cold........and deep too.
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South Pacific sea levels – Best records show little or no rise?!
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JoNova ^ | August 18th, 2010 | Joanne
Posted on Sun 22 Aug 2010 09:47:29 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Are the small islands of the South Pacific in danger of disappearing, glug, under the waves of the rising ocean? Will thousands of poor inhabitants be forced to emigrate, as desperate refugees, to Australia and New Zealand? Has any of this got anything to do with man-made emissions of CO2?
By looking closely at the records, it turns out that the much advertised rising sea levels in the South Pacific depend on anomalous depressions of the ocean during 1997 and 1998 thanks to an El Nino and two tropical cyclones. The Science and Public Policy Institute has released a report by Vincent Gray which compares 12 Pacific Island records and shows that in many cases it’s these anomalies that set the trends… and if the anomaly is removed, sea levels appear to be more or less constant since the Seaframe measurements began around 1993.
South Pacific sea levels – Best records show little or no rise?!
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JoNova ^ | August 18th, 2010 | Joanne
Posted on Sun 22 Aug 2010 09:47:29 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Are the small islands of the South Pacific in danger of disappearing, glug, under the waves of the rising ocean? Will thousands of poor inhabitants be forced to emigrate, as desperate refugees, to Australia and New Zealand? Has any of this got anything to do with man-made emissions of CO2?
By looking closely at the records, it turns out that the much advertised rising sea levels in the South Pacific depend on anomalous depressions of the ocean during 1997 and 1998 thanks to an El Nino and two tropical cyclones. The Science and Public Policy Institute has released a report by Vincent Gray which compares 12 Pacific Island records and shows that in many cases it’s these anomalies that set the trends… and if the anomaly is removed, sea levels appear to be more or less constant since the Seaframe measurements began around 1993.
Sorry for the double post.
Meanwhile Finland is rising OUT OF THE SEA at a rate of 2.7 square miles per year( as is much of the subarctic north}. Any high school B student can see that displacement would require that the sea be rising SOMEWHERE.
Good graphic...
Good graphic...
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